Institute Calendar
Winter 2012-2013
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
10:30am
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12:00pm
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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
Building an Information Theory for Layered Packet Communication
Tracey Ho,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Dynamics from Classical Trajectories: New approaches to simulating biological and molecular catalysts
Thomas F. Miller, III,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Device-independent quantum information
Velario Scarani,
Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Challenges in searches for binary black holes and black hole-neutron star systems
Duncan Brown,
Syracuse 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 Influence of Baryons in Interpreting the Cosmological Model
Alyson Brooks,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Consequences of Electron Precipitation at Mercury: Exosphere Formation and X-ray Aurorae
David Schriver,
Research Geophysicist,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics ,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Molecular Engineering for Non-Invasive Imaging and Control of Biological Function
Mikhail Shapiro,
PhD,
Bioengineering and Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Quantification of Nonlinearity
Norden Huang,
Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis,
National Central University, Taiwan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:30pm
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Beckman Institute Special Seminar
Modeling Regulatory Systems for Sea Urchin Development
Isabelle Peter,
Senior Research Fellow,
Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly
Genevieve Graves,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Model of Persuasion with Boundedly Rational Agents
Ariel Rubinstein,
Department of Economics,
University of Tel Aviv / New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles Megacity as Observed in Pasadena
Sally Newman,
Senior Research Scientist,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for new physics at CMS in hadronic final states
Maurizio Pierini,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Cyclohexadienones As A Challenging Platform for Reaction Discovery and Development
Andrew M. Harned,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Particle Suspensions Near Jamming: Stresses, Moduli, Diffusion, and Rheology
Craig Maloney,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"DNA-Mediated Oxidation of p53 is Regulated by DNA Sequence"
Katie Schaefer,
Barton Group Grad Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Chaperonin-mediated protein folding and beyond
Arthur Horwich,
Sterling Professor of Genetics and HHMI Investigator,
Department of Genetics,
Yale School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Directed evolution strategies for cellular and metabolic engineering
Hal Alper,
Assistant Professor,
Cell and Molecular Biology,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The influence of large-magnitude earthquakes and fault zone damage on the spatial distribution of slow-moving landslides (Joel)
Claire Thomas & Joel Scheingross ,
Graduate Students,
Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Event
THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals
Judea Pearl,
Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals
Judea Pearl,
Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, February 8th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
Cosmology 2017: Testing Gravity, Dark Energy, and Neutrinos
Eric Linder,
Co-Director,
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
TBD
Fernando Brandao,
ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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TOSHI KUBOTA LECTURE in Aerospace
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Ian A. Waitz,
Dean of the School of Engineering, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Challenges and Opportunities for Long Life Energy Storage Technologies
Ping Liu,
ARPA-E,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Investigating the Mechanism of Ferritin Protection of DNA: Can the Bacterial Ferritin Dps Utilize DNA Charge Transfer to Protect the Genome from a Distance?"
Anna Arnold,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 9th, 2013
12:00am
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2/10
12:00am
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12:00am
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2/10
12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, February 10th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Jauregui Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, February 11th, 2013
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - Informal
Regulation of metabolic dormancy by reversible phosphorylation of translational GTPases
Jonathan Dworkin,
Associate Professor,
Dept. Microbiology and Immunology,
Columbia University,