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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Charles Lawrence, NASA JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Oscillatory modes of quarks in baryons for 3 quark flavors - u, d, s
Peter Minkowski, ITEP, Univ of Bern,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

Building a Stratigraphic Column on the Road to Yellowknife Bay, Mars Science Laboratory, Gale Crater, Mars (Katie Stack); Formation of Boxwork Structures on Mount Sharp, Gale Crater, Mars (Kirsten Siebach)
Katie Stack, Graduate Student, Geology, Caltech,
Kirsten Siebach, Graduate Student, Geology, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Chung Pei Ma, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Decentralized Exchange
Marzena Rostek, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Surface ocean impacts on the chemistry of the tropical free troposphere
Rainer Volkamer, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition Experiments in a Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel
Jerrod Hofferth, Aerospace Engineering Department, Texas A&M University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
Steve Cole, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner, Research Scientist, Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group, JPL,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Localization in N=2* and related models
Alex Buchel, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, EAS, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira, Professor, Astrophysics, University of Oxford,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CLARK B. MILLIKAN Lecture in Aerospace

Logarithmic scaling in wall-bound turbulent flows
Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar

High-Resolution mm-Wave Pulsed Radar for Imaging and Gesture Detection
Amin Arbabian, Assistant Professor , Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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General Photography on Campus: Girl Scouts (Dr. Steven Mayo) Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Magnetic Alignment of High-Aspect Ratio Microwires into Vertical Arrays
Joseph Beardslee, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Leverage and Beliefs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Amsterdam Repo Market (joint w/ Hans-Joachim Voth)
Peter Koudijs, Assistant Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner, Research Scientist, Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group, JPL,
Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Monday, May 13th, 2013
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
Ganpathy Murthy, Professor, University of Kentucky,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dev Bio SuperGroup Meeting

Presenters: Amir Sapir, Sternberg Lab and Adrien Le Thomas, Aravin Lab
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

"The Accelerating Universe"
Roger Blandford, Physics, Stanford,