Institute Calendar
Spring 2013-2014
Saturday, May 10th, 2014
4:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 11th, 2014
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2014
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Cell-Targeted Regulation of Gene Expression Through Synthetic RNA Devices
James Vowles,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Smolke group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Measuring Fraud in Aid
Jean Ensminger,
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Reaction of Glucose by Framework and Extraframework Tin Sites in Zeolite Beta
Ricardo Bermejo-Deval,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar
Talking Sex in Early Modern England: Or, What Do Words Tell Us About the History of Sexuality?
Valerie Traub,
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Cancelled
Nicole Rust,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Manipulating single electrons in silicon for quantum computing
Michael Lilly,
Scientist,
The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),
Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Has global warming stopped? How, why now and for how long?
Ka-Kit Tung,
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Adjunct Professor in Atmospheric Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Techniques for difficult LHC signatures
Matthew Buckley,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Harnessing Metal-Metal Bonds: Bonding, Electronic Properties and Small-Molecule Reactivity
Connie C. Lu,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Michelle Effros,
George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Michelle Effros,
George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Peter Turnbaugh,
Bauer Fellow,
FAS Center for Systems Biology,
Harvard University,
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
Dr. Laura Perez,
NRAO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings
Steven E. Wheeler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black holes, star products and entanglement
Monica Guica,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Seasonal Cycles in Terrestrial Planetary Climates
Jonathan Mitchell,
Assistant Professor,
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Agenda Setting (joint with Ying Chen)
Hulya Eraslan,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Validity of spin wave theory for the quantum Heisenberg model
Robert Seiringer,
Mathematics,
IST Austria,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, I
Andy Zucker,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New perspectives on the ocean's role in transient climate change
Kyle Armour,
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Advanced semiconductor devices: from nanotechnology-based photovoltaics to infrared thermal sensing
Dr. Giacomo Mariani,
Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Interaction of a Mach 2.25 Turbulent Boundary Layer with Elastic Panels using Direct Numerical Simulation
Daniel Bodony,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Unnatural Amino Acid Probes of a Prokaryotic Cys-Loop Receptor Homolog
Matthew Rienzo,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Density Functional Theory Embedding for Correlated Wavefunctions
Jason Goodpaster,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, II
Andy ,
Zucker,
Mathematics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Model of Choice and its Predictions
Aldo Rustichini,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
32nd Annual Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
Avi Wigderson,
Professor,
School of Mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,