Institute Calendar
Spring 2013-2014
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Value of Network Information (joint with Andrea Galeotti)
Itay Fainmesser,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Engineered antibody and monobody domains with T cell receptor-like selectivity for tumor associated peptide-MHC antigens
Thesis defense
Samy Hamdouche,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story
Andrew G. Barto,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Twins! Nutrient uptake and the role of dual transport systems
Heather Pinkett,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the image of complex conjugation in certain Galois representations
Anna Caraiani,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of our Galaxy
Andrea Ghez,
Professor of Physics & Astronomy,
UCLA,
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Porter Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Friday, May 30th, 2014
8:00am
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Label-Free Detection of Single Biological Molecules Using Microtoroid Optical Resonators
Thesis defense
Judith Su,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Rational Design of Zinc Phosphide Heterojunction Photovoltaics
Jeffrey Bosco,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Distinguished Lecture in Solid Mechanics
Acoustic, Electromagnetic, and Neutron Emissions from Brittle Fracture and Earthquakes
Alberto Carpinteri,
Professor of Structural Mechanics,
Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics,
Politecnico di Torino,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Design of 3D printed mathematical art
Henry Segerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Oklahoma State University,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Structure on the set of triangulations
Henry Segerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Oklahoma State University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Cyanation of Unactivated Alkyl and Aryl Halides and Photophysical Characterization of a Cu(I) bis(Carbazolide) Anion
Tanvi Ratani,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring the pseudo-spin space of hydrogenated graphene
Thomas Szkopek,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McGill University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, May 31st, 2014
8:00am
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6/3
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Papazyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Workshop
Knowledge and the Cultivation of Tastes in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Infinite gap sets and Lieb-Thirring bounds
Jacob Christiansen,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Lund University, Sweden,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Most hyperelliptic curves over Q have no rational points
Manjul Bhargava,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Princeton University visiting Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Visualizing the activity and anatomy of brain circuits: optogenetic sensors and tissue clearing approaches"
Viviana Gradinaru,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Do Players of p-beauty Games k-step Reason? (joint with Indranil Goswami and Carl Mela)
P. Richard Hahn,
Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
In search of the nuts and bolts of the microbiome
Marc Strous,
Professor CAIP Chair,
Energy Bioengineering Group,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
CMV Matrices with Super Exponentially Decaying Verblunsky Coefficients
Maxim Zinchenko,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of New Mexico,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Investigating Neutron Star Mergers Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Tony Piro,
Caltech,
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
10:00am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy and THz Coherent Control
Keith A. Nelson,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Optical deconstruction of fully-assembled biological systems
Karl Deisseroth,
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Department of Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
An Electrochemical Series for Planetary Interiors
Abby Kavner,
Associate Professsor,
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Julia Ann Cartwright,
Geochemistry,
Caltech,
Jordana Blacksberg,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Showing elliptic curves have rational points (without actually finding them)
Christopher Skinner,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Showing elliptic curves have rational points (without actually finding them)
Christopher Skinner,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Princeton, visiting Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies presents an open lecture:
New Frontiers of Planetary Seismology
Philippe Lognonné,
Professor,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Université Paris Diderot-Sorbonne Paris Cité, France,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Song Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014
8:00am
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6/6
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Projects and Team Dynamics
George Georgiadis,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Business, Economics, and Management,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Studying disc-jet coupling at Eddington rates: an ultraluminous microquasar in M31
James Miller-Jones,
Curtin,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reductive dechlorination and the chlorine cycle
Stephen Zinder,
Visiting Associate,
Department of Geobiology,
Caltech,
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Molecular Interplay between the Signal Recognition Particle and Trigger Factor at the Ribosome Exit Site
Aileen Ariosa,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Earth magnetic field: how high it can get? how fast it can change? how dipole it is? archaeomagnetic insights from Levantine biblical sites
Ron Shaar,
Post Doc,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Geometry of Numbers and Arithmetic Statistics
Manjul Bhargava,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Princeton University visiting Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Realization Effect: Risk Taking after Realized versus Paper Losses
Alex Imas,
Social Decision Science Fellow,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, June 6th, 2014
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact solutions of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories
Abhijit Gadde,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Structure and Activity in Z-Selective Metathesis
Brendan Quigley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quasiparticle Coherence, Collective Modes, and Competing Order in Cuprate Superconductors
James Hinton,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science,
University of CA - Berkeley/ LBNL,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, June 7th, 2014
8:00am
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6/10
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10:00am
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