Institute Calendar
Spring 2013-2014
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifoulds
Sungjay Lee,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Functional Evaluation of Noncovalent Interactions in Neuroreceptors and Progress Toward the Expansion of Unnatural Amino Acid Methodology
Kristina Daeffler,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction
Charles R. Plott,
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
T-duality and scattering of stringy states
Jnan Maharana,
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects
Ken Chen,
IAU-Gruber Fellow,
Astronomy and Astrophysics,
U.C. Santa Cruz,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Mechanistic Studies of Reactions at Single-Molecule Level Using Microfluidics with Applications in Molecular Diagnostics
Bing Sun,
Graudate Student in Chemistry, Ismagilov group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Geometry and topology of finite volume, bounded negatively curved manifolds
Yunhui Wu,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development
Bertie Gottgens,
Professor,
Dept of Molecular Haematology,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electron Transfer and DNA Replication: Assessing the Functional Role of the Yeast DNA Polymerase delta [4Fe-4S] Cluster
Phil Bartels,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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3:00pm
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Portrait Photography on Campus: Ruiz Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mkrtchyan & Boyadzhyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:50pm
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Family Photography on Campus: Bugarin Family
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Batdorj & Zuend Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yetemian & Tafesh Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 4th, 2014
10:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cornell Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 5th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Development of Semicrystalline Morphology of Poly(L-lactic acid) during Processing of a Vascular Scaffold
Artemis Ailianou,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Its Application Toward the Synthesis of Taiwaniaquinoid Natural Products
Jeffrey Holder,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater
John Grotzinger,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D
Fiona Burnell,
Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry
Karen Goldberg,
Nicole A. Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry and Director, Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis,
Chemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
'Isotopes of Disease'
Francis Albarede,
Professor of Geochemistry ENS Lyon,
Department of Earth and Science,
ENS Lyon - Université de Lyon 1 - CNRS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity and a naturally light dilaton
Prateek Agrawal,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools
Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Defense.
"Design and Analysis of Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathways"
Brian Wolfe,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Hopi Hoekstra,
Professor,
Dept. Zoology, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular 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
The Search for Young Planets
Prof. Russel White,
Georgia State Univ.,