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Progress Toward the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide and the Polycyclic Furanobutenolide Norcembranoid Diterpenes and Construction of the Ineleganoloids

Robert Craig, Graduate Student, Stoltz group, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Band Engineering in Thermoelectric Materials Using Optical, Electronic, and Computational Properties

Zachary Gibbs, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,

4:00pm – 4:00pm

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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Genetic dissection of visual circuits for sensing direction

Andrew Huberman, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Annenberg 105

A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning

Professor Richard G. Baraniuk, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Founder and Director, OpenStax , Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Baxter B125

Necessary Luxuries: A New Social Interactions Model, Applied to Keeping Up With the Joneses in India

Krishna Pendakur, Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

New insights into the early Martian climate from 3D modeling

Robin Wordsworth, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Models with dilepton + jets final states at the LHC

Joshua Berger, SLAC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Metals and Immunity

Elizabeth M. Nolan, Associate Professor, Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, May 12th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105

Democratizing 3D Human Capture: Getting Hairy!

Hao Li, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Using the BayesWave algorithm to detect and characterize binary black hole mergers without waveform templates

Meg Millhouse, Physics, Montana State University,

1:30pm – 2:00pm

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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Steele 102

Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Braced Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations

Ramses Mourhatch, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

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Caltech Library Workshop - "Patents"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107

Estimating outcome probabilities of quantum circuits using quasiprobabilities

Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

New Route to Biomass-Derived Terephthalic Acid Using Lewis Acid Molecular Sieve Catalysts

Joshua Pacheco, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Baxter B125

Sean Gailmard, Associate Professor, Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Navigating Space-Time with Ultrafast Exciton Photolithography or Scintillating Near-fields to Follow Dynamic Processes in Molecular Materials

Naomi S. Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

From Fast to Ultrafast: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Extreme Movement

Sheila Patek, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Dynamical stability of imaged planetary systems in formation: Application to HL Tau

Daniel Tamayo, CITA Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto,

6:00pm – 8:00pm

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Caltech Y Friends Dinner with Rob Manning

Athenaeum

Wednesday, May 13th, 2015

12:00am – 5/14 12:00am

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(Baseball) Caltech at NCAA West Regional

9:00am – 10:00am

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SFP Information Session for Campus Staff and Administrators

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

9:30am – 11:30am

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IMARIS 3D/4D Visualization and Analysis Workshop

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Lynsey Hamilton,

10:00am – 11:30am

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Student Shop Safety Hands-on Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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Logic Seminar

Kellogg 307

Almost treeability

Robin Tucker-Drob, NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University,

1:00pm – 1:00pm

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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Metastability and dynamics of stem cells: from direct observations to inference at the single cell level

Zakary Singer, CNS graduate student, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Strategies for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Carbon Quaternary Centers Via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Alkylation of Enolate Compounds

Corey Reeves, Graduate Student, Stoltz group, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Extragalactic Archeology

Charlie Conroy, Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Combinatorics Semnar

On the structure of the spectrum of small sets

Alejandro Morales, Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Plant waxes as environmental proxies in the tropics

Sarah J. Feakins, Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119

Unraveling New Functions for the Endoplasmic Reticulum at Organelle Contact Sites

Gia Voeltz, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Ultra-hot and Ultra-thin Microstructures

Igor Bargatin, Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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