Institute Calendar
Spring 2011-2012
Monday, May 28th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event
Community Participation in Disaster Management Through Information Technology
K. Mani Chandy,
Simon Ramo Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Applications of Coding in Network Communications
Christopher SungWook Chang,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum control of diamond defects for quantum information and bio-imaging
Peter Maurer,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Galaxy Evolution at Large N and Low SNR"
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
From Stardust to Planetesimals
Paola Pinilla,
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Ugly, the Soft, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle Self-Assembly
Angelo Cacciuto,
Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The genetics and mechanics of cell shape determination
Maria Leptin,
Professor and Director,
EMBO - European Molecular Biology Organization,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship
Alexander Hirsch,
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Radiative-transfer Modeling of Supernova Spectra and Light Curves. Application to Massive-star Explosions.
Luc Dessart,
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reputational Bargaining and Asymmetric Information
David Pearce,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 31st, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Electrospun nanofibrous protein-polymer scaffolds for the promotion of scar-free corneal wound healing
Amy Fu,
PhD candidate, Kornfield Group,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Virtual Earthquake Engineering Laboratory (VEEL) in the era of parallel computers
In Ho Cho,
Willis Research Fellow,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, June 1st, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Diffusion of Network Goods: A Two-Sided Interaction Approach
Euncheol Shin,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Polarization-based Navigation in Drosophila
Peter Weir,
Computation & Neural Systems,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Proximity Effects and Vortex Dynamics in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Arrays
Serena Eley,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Communicating Chemistry
Stuart Cantrill,
Dr., Chief Editor,
Nature Publishing Group,
Nature Chemistry,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Primary Alcohols from Terminal Olefins: Formal Anti-Markovnikov Hydration
Zach Wickens,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
*NOTE: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED* Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in the Northern Labor and Housing Markets
Leah Platt Boustan,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
8:00am
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6/5
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Baronian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Farias Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hairapetian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 4th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Patchy Switching
Rustem Ismagilov,
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical inhibition and visual processing
Massimo Scanziani,
Professor,
Biology,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Redox Enzymes as Electrocatalysts: Exploration of Natural and Artificial Hydrogenases
Anne Katherine Jones,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Microfluidic Electrospray Propulsion (MEP): A Revolutionary Approach to Spacecraft Propulsion
Colleen Marrese-Reading,
Senior Engineer,
Electric Propulsion Group,
Jet Propulsion Lab,
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:30pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Cancelled
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Gene regulatory networks orchestrating developmental checkpoints and effector states in the immune system"
Harinder Singh,
Senior Director,
Immunology,
Genentech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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6/8
5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Optimization of the GluCl/IVM neuronal silencing tool via protein engineering
Shawnalea J. Frazier,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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