Institute Calendar
Spring 2015-2016
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Carbon-based nanomaterials: from combustion nanoparticles to chiral"
(CANCELLED) Angela Violi,
Professor,
Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biophysics,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms of regulation and fidelity in tail-anchored membrane protein targeting
Meera Rao,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Multiplexed analysis of diverse RNA classes via hybridization chain reaction"
Aneesh Acharya,
Bioengineering Ph.D. Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Oscillatory Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Ming Hsu,
Assistant Professor,
Haas School of Business and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
When bad is good: directed evolution using negative selection can result in proteins with superior properties
Marc Ostermeier,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Speaker
Optical Microscopy Techniques for Mapping the Brain Connectome with Nanoscale Resolution
Emmanouil Karagiannis, Ph.D.,
Research Scientist,
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Medial Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Cycles in the de Rham cohomology of abelian varieties over number fields
Yunqing Tang,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Physics of Information
Fernando Brandao,
Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Division,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary
Sara Hendren,
Artist, Design Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design,
Olin College of Engineering,
Ken Pickar,
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth
Morgan Cable,
Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section,
JPL,
Friday, May 20th, 2016
9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Shock wave propagation in composites and electro-thermomechanical coupling of ferroelectric materials
Vinamra Agrawal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High temperature mechanical performance of metallic and metal-ceramic nanoscale multilayers
Javier LLorca,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science,
Polytechnic University of Madrid,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Science of Writing ***Please Note Location Change***
Caltech Alumni Roundtable on Writing and Communication in STEM Professions
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Spectrahedral lifts of polytopes, sums of squares, and quantum information
James Lee,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
The Distribution of Discriminants of Polynomials with Coefficients in a Finite Field
Michael Seaman,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmological Tests of Gravity Come of Age
Tessa Baker,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Univ of Oxford and Univ of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Approaching the complexity of combustion kinetic models through chemical time scale investigations
Benjamin Akih-Kumgeh,
Assistant Professor,
Engineering & Computer Science,
Syracuse University,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On Thurston's Euler class one conjecture
Mehdi Yazdi,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Understanding Co-translational Protein Targeting and Lithium Dendrite Formation through Modeling and Long-Timescale Simulations
Connie Wang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA-Mediated Iron-sulfur Redox Signaling in Bacterial Nucleotide Excision Repair.
Rebekah Silva,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems
Michael Kolodrubetz,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification During the Great Depression
Kris Mitchener,
Robert and Susan Finocchio Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics,
Leavey School of Business,
Santa Clara University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth
Morgan Cable,
Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section,
JPL,
Saturday, May 21st, 2016
8:20am
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2016
6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Marshall Engagement Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Dipolar Liquids and Their Mixtures: Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Properties with Field-Theoretic Approaches
Bilin Zhuang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Wang group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Understanding Selectivity and Activity in Z-selective metathesis with Cyclometallated Ru-based Catalysts
Brendan Quigley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalysis Development Targeting Small Molecules to Proteins
Motomu Kanai,
Professor of Chemistry,
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Chemicals and Fuels
Jay Keasling,
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
A Rodent Model of the "Cocktail Party Problem"
Michael DeWeese,
Associate Professor,
Physics & Neuroscience,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
MCMC Confidence Sets for Identified Sets
Elie Tamer,
Professor of Economics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Deep Structure and Evolution of the Afro-Arabian Rift
Walter D. Mooney,
Research Seismologist and Geophysicist,
U.S. Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Thinking about some new low Reynolds number flow problems (technical lecture)
Howard A. Stone,
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chair,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of chemically active suspensions
Wen Yan,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
10:30am
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PhD seminar
Tools for Spatiotemporally Specific Proteomic Analysis in Multicellular Organisms
Kai Yuet,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Data-Driven Design
Ranjitha Kumar,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
Nathaniel Kadunce,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Aomawa Shields,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Microbial Modulation of Neuroendocrine Signaling and Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans
Dennis Kim,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Relatively Few Rational Points
Barry Charles Mazur,
Gerhard Gade University Professor,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Surprising responses in common fluid flows: (1) surface-attached bacteria, biofilms and flow; and (ii) trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flows (general lecture)
Howard A. Stone,
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chair,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Inventing the Impossible"
JPL
Marco Tempest,
Cyber illusionist, Director's Fellow Alumnus,
MIT Media Lab,
5:00pm
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Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Challenging the Precious Metal Mindset: Green Chemistry with Potassium
Anton Toutov,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
10:00am
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PhD seminar
Programming Molecular Association and Viscoelastic Behavior in Protein Hydrogels
Larry Dooling,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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PhD seminar
Electrocatalysis in Solid Acid Fuel Cell Electrodes
Vanessa Evoen,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,