Institute Calendar
Spring 2012-2013
Friday, May 17th, 2013
4:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
Nonlinear Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Hossein Hashemi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California (USC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cooperative Bond Activation and Catalysis by Nickel–Borane Complexes
William Harman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mousaian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 18th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 19th, 2013
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Ginn Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ginn Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Time Travel in Experimental Evolution
Richard Lenski,
Professor of Microbial Ecology,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Bond Activations and New Transformations in Metal-Silicon Complexes: Implications for Hydrosilylation Catalysis
T. Donald Tilley,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one
Michael D. Mauk,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Effective Field Theories for Topological Insulators via Functional Bosonization
Shinsei Ryu,
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Falling to Pieces: Fractures, Blockfalls and Avalanches at the North Pole of Mars
Shane Byrne,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Sniffing out BSM Physics with Standard Model Standard Candles
David Curtin,
SUNY, Stonybrook,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Ideology and Nationalism in Basque Parliamentary Elections
Stephen Ansolabehere,
Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William and Myrtle Harris Seminar on Science and Civilization
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Andrew Robinson,
Author and Journalist,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
'Illuminating the dark universe with quasar-induced ly-alpha emission'
Sebastiano Cantalupo,
UCO/Lick Observatory,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
10:30am
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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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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Solving Hard Problems in Science and Education with Game-Based Expert Development
Zoran Popović,
Director, Center for Game Science,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
TBA
Prof. Annika Peter,
Prof.,
UC Irvine/Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Elucidating Correlations in Intracellular Dynamics
Aaron R. Dinner,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Intrisic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits
Troy Margrie,
Wellcome Trust Investigator,
Head of Division of Neurophysiology,
National Institute for Medical Research - London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum metrology and many-body physics with optical lattice clocks
Michael Martin,
JILA, University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Puzzles in Giant Planet Formation
Katherine Kretke,
Researcher,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Multilevel Monte Carlo Method
Mike Giles,
Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance at St Hugh's College,
University of Oxford,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions"
Jonathan Sternberg,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization
Ranga- Ram Chary,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games
Johannes Horner,
Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
John R. Taylor,
University Lecturer,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Materials Research Seminar
Novel Materials, Computational Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics
Marco Bernardi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
8:00am
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6/7
5:00pm
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9:30am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Earth-Abundant Materials for Solar Hydrogen Generation
James Robert McKone,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lewis Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion
Jonathan Malen,
Assitant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,