Institute Calendar
Spring 2012-2013
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Black Hole Information Paradox, Alive and Kicking
Joseph Polchinski,
KITP, UCSB,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 31st, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
A Study of Protein Targeting Reveals Insights into Mitigating Protein Aggregation
Thang Xuan Nguyen,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Shan Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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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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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD seminar
Towards Conditional RNAi: Shape and Sequence Transduction with Small Conditional RNAs
Lisa Hochrein,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD seminar
Effects of Particle Size Ratio on Single Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions
Nicholas Hoh,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Changing Landscape of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors
Ken Shen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Planar Reflection of Gaseous Detonations
Jason Damazo,
PhD Candidate,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Aldehyde-Selective Wacker-type Oxidation of Unbiased Alkenes
Zhachary Wickens,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, June 1st, 2013
8:00am
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6/4
5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Azizyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Krikorian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vardapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
9:30am
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10:30am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Molecular Design of Side-Group Liquid Crystal Polymers: Understanding their Interactions with Small-Molecule Liquid Crystal Solvent
Zuleikha Kurji,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Kornfield Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
The Origin of Negative Overcharge in RNA Viruses
Zhen-gang Wang,
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Division of Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
'Probing the jet-launching mechanism of supermassive black holes with radio surveys'
Sjoert van Velzen,
Radboud University Nijmegen,
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
10:30am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Micropropulsion Applications from Gravity-Wave Telescopes to Exoplanet Observatories and Cube-Sats
John Ziemer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Getting WIRED About Dust and Substellar Objects Orbiting White Dwarfs
Dr. John H. Debes,
STScI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity
Bonnie Bassler,
Professor ,
Department of Molecular Biology ,
Princeton University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Activation of C-H Bonds by Pincer-Iridium Complexes. Catalysis and Fundamental Studies
Alan Goldman,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Where Moons Form: Disks of Gas and Dust Orbiting Young Gas Giant Planets
Neal Turner,
Staff Scientist ,
Space and Astrophysical Plasmas,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Sparse Recovery Over Continuous Dictionaries: The Fourier Case
Dr. Gonggou Tang,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
8:00am
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6/7
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Synthetic Transformations using Alkenes: From Transition Metal Catalysis to Metal-free Radical Reactions
Eric J. Alexanian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, June 6th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Quantum Simulation of Enzyme Catalysis
Nicholas Boekelheide,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:30am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Control of gene expression by tuning translation initiation
Cliff Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, June 7th, 2013
8:00am
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8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation: Insights, Applications, and the Total Synthesis of Four Daucane Sesquiterpenes
Nathan Bruce Bennett,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium
Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Dark matter halo substructure and its role in gamma-ray dark matter searches
Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde,
Postdoc,
KIPAC/SLAC,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Generation of Powerful W(0) Reductants by Visible Light Excitation
Wesley Sattler,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
More than Skin Deep: Anatomy and the Creation of Early Modern Saints
Bradford Bouley,
Assistant Professor of History,
Pennsylvania State University and USC,
Saturday, June 8th, 2013
8:00am
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6/11
5:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mouradian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Andzhunyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kostikyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography