Institute Calendar
Spring 2013-2014
Monday, March 31st, 2014
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Moral Hazard in Dynamic Risk Management (Joint with D. Possamai and N. Touzi)
Jaksa Cvitanic,
Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Commercial Space Flight at SpaceX – Delivering Cargo Today and Crew Tomorrow
Garrett Reisman,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Collaborative Research Seminar
Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts
Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós,
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Integration of paper microfluidic methods for detection of infectious diseases in low resource settings"
Paul Yager,
Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level
Manuel Endres,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Hydrodynamics and collective behavior of the tethered bacterium Thiovulum majus
Alexander Petroff,
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Fellow,
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Exploring dark sectors with low-energy experiments
Bertrand Echenard,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal Oxo and Hydroxo Complexes in Chemistry and Biology
Andy Borovik,
Professor,
Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory
Warren Skidmore,
TMT,
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics
Random Walks and their Scaling Limits
Gregory F. Lawler,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
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
Stellar and Dark Mass Assembly of Galaxies
Dr. Niv Drory,
Univ. of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Killing persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells: Inspirations from Max Delbruck, Harry Houdini, and Captain James Cook
William Jacobs,
Professor,
Dept of Microbiology & Immunology and Dept. of Genetics,
Albert Einstein School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Bjorn Benneke,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11
Ethan Kaplan,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Maryland,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Singularities and why we love them: universal behaviors in geometric heat flows
Dan Knopf,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Univ. of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Energy Leadership: Integrating Policies Across Sectors
Catherine Sandoval,
Commissioner,
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC),
3:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Austin Minnich,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Plague, Pollution and the Poor in late Renaissance Florence
John Henderson,
Department of History,
Birkbeck College,
4:15pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Arlases consisting of Bruhat cells
Allen Knutson,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Cornell University,
5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
A Molecular View of Cancer: Chemically synthesized agents for early detection and screening
Kaycie Deyle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Fracture Driving Force and Energy Dissipation in Li-Si Alloy Battery Electrodes
Min Zhou,
Professor,
The School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On level 1 algebraic cusp forms of classical groups
Gaetan Chenevier,
Professor,
Mathematics,
École Polytechnique ,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics
Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part II
Gregory F. Lawler,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
TBA
Brian Crane,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification of Multidimensional Hedonic Models
Lars Nesheim,
Senior Research Economist,
University College London,
4:00pm
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Friday, April 4th, 2014
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Hamid Nazerzadeh,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs
Andrew Wetzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Spikes and bubbles in turbulent mixing: The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Daniel Livescu,
Fluid Dynamics Team Leader,
Computer and Computational Sciences Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Seiberg-Witten Floer KO-theory and intersection forms of spin 4-manifolds
Jianfen Lin,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Making active matter with colloids
Ramin Golestanian,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Congruent skein relations for quantum invariants of links
Qingtao Chen,
Professor,
Mathematics,
ICTP,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
H2 Activation at Rhenium Carbonyl Complexes: A Thermodynamic Analysis of Base-Assisted Formyl C-H Bond
Thomas Teets,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 5th, 2014
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khera Family Portrait
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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