Institute Calendar
Winter 2012-2013
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Constraining the Supermassive Black Hole Population with Gravitational Waves and Pulsar Timing Arrays
Ryan Shannon,
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences,
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Taking a picture of transcriptional activity along a single chromosome
Arjun Raj,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision Making
David Freeman,
Ph.D.,
Neurobiology,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Extraordinarily ancient landscapes in the Brazilian jungle: evidence from new techniques in geochronology and surface exposure dating
Kenneth A. Farley,
W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry; Chair,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
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PhD seminar
Expanding Protein Sequence Space Through Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids
Frank Truong,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
4:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: an Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations
Bernardo S. da Silveira,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Quantifying uncertainty and improving statistical predictions for partially observed turbulent dynamical systems
Michal Branicki,
Research Fellow,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
9:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Collaborative Image Analysis with the Masses: Challenges and Opportunities
Alexandre Cunha,
Center for Advanced Computing Research and Meyerowitz Lab,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum computational matter
Stephen Bartlett,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory
Adam Wasserman,
Assistant Professor, Physical/Theoretical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Gene regulatory mechanisms that generate neuronal diversity – lessons learned from C. elegans and beyond
Oliver Hobert,
Professor,
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
The Enceladus Plume as Seen by the Cassini Magnetometer and MHD Modeling
Yingdong Jia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California Los Angeles,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
3:00pm
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Abbott Symposium
Targeting BCL-2 Family Proteins for Cancer Therapy
Andrew J. Souers,
Dr.,
Cancer Research Division, Global Pharmaceutical R&D,
Abbott Laboratories,
3:00pm
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Abbott Symposium
Dissecting Transcription with Large and Small Molecules
Anna K. Mapp,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Quantifying High-Redshift Star Formation with Gamma-Ray Bursts - Promises and Perils
Dan Perley,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Deglacial CO2 release from the North Pacific constrained by boron isotopes, radiocarbon and earth system modeling
James Rae,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geochemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Earnest C. Watson Lecture
For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past
Tracy K. Dennison,
Professor of Social Science History,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
On Measuring the Dynamic Response of Soft Materials
Rodney Clifton,
Professor,
Engineering,
Brown University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
A Chemical Biology Approach to Understand how Ligand-specific Signals are Decoded by EGFR
Rebecca Scheck,
Ph.D.,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - Informal
Reprogramming Development - Mechanisms and Trans-generational Implications
Yoav Soen,
Senior Scientist,
Dept. Biological Chemistry,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Daniel Hummer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Role and Mechanism of Branching Microtubule Nucleation
Sabine Petry,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
NIH Pathway to Independence,
University of California, San Francisco and HHMI,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Fixing The U.S. Health Care System: Is ObamaCare Too Much, Or Not Enough?
Gerald Kominski,
Professor of Health Services,
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research,
UCLA,
Friday, February 1st, 2013
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Complementarity vs Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum gravity effects near black hole horizons?
Donald Marolf,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Energy-Inconsistent Objective Stress Rates in ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Other FE Codes: Magnitude of Errors and How to Correct Them
Zdenek Bazant,
McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern University,
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General Biology Seminar
"A molecular geneticist's strategy for understanding the fly brain"
Gerry Rubin,
Vice President and Executive Director,
Janelia Farm Research Campus,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Protonation of Fe Bound Dinitrogen"
John Anderson,
graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
12:00am
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2/3
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
12:00am
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2/4
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
10:00am
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Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Nadine Dabby,
Computation and Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
The James Webb Space Telescope: Exploration Beyond the Mighty Hubble
Dr. Rolf Danner,
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Signaling on a scaffold: Molecular mechanisms for assembly and control of kinase networks
Jesse Zalatan,
Ph.D.,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Building a Better Robot: Designing Automated Control Systems for Astronomical Instruments
Reed L. Riddle,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Studies of extinct Pu-244, I-129 and Cl-36 based on the analysis of xenon and argon isotopes
Grenville Turner,
Professor of Isotope Geochemistry,
School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences,
University of Manchester,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Quantum states of matter and anti-matter in gravitational and centrifugal potentials
Valery Nesvizhevsky,
Institut Laue-Langevin,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Design and Synthesis of Nanostructured Crystalline Semiconductor (Photo)Electrodes"
Stephen Maldonado,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics,
Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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