Institute Calendar
Winter 2012-2013
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 24th, 2013
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Labbad Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Individual Investors' Trading in Times of Crisis: Going it Alone or Giving Up?
Martin Weber,
Chair, Department of Business, Administration, Finance,
University of Mannheim,
1:45pm
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3:00pm
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Visibility Seminar
New Capabilities and Emerging Technologies at the Protein Expression Center
Jost Vielmetter,
Director, BI Protein Expression Center,
Beckman Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Beckman Institute Visibility Seminar
New Capabilities and Emerging Technologies at the Protein Expression Center
Dr. Jost Vielmetter,
Director,
Beckman Institute Protein Expression Center,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME/LOCATION**
Cluster Trees, Near-Neighbor Graphs, and Continuum Percolation
Sanjoy Dasgupta,
Computer Science and Engineering,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematica in Education and Research
Introduction to Mathematica 9
Kelvin Mischo,
Certified Mathematica Instructor,
Wolfram Research, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT): Latest Developments and Next Steps
Gary Sanders,
TMT/Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Probing bacterial cell shape determination by watching the dynamics of synthetic enzymes
Ethan Garner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Michael Mauk,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Neurobiology,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators
Ribhu Kaul,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Kentucky,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fundamental Physics with Optically Levitated Objects
Asimina Arvanitaki,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Oxidation Reactivity of Pd(III) and Pd(IV) Complexes Supported by Flexible Multidentate Ligands
Liviu M. Mirica,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Washington University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
9:30am
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10:30am
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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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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
MisMatch.com: Ethics Education and Engineering Practice
Robert McGinn,
Professor ,
Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electrochemistry vs. Battery System Engineering: Deconstructing the Recent Spate of Battery Failures
Rob Ferber,
Founder,
ElectronVault, Inc.,
Linda Maepa,
Founder,
ElectronVault, Inc.,
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
TBA
Alan Dressler,
Dr.,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Towards control of waves and mixing in two-fluid flows
Dr. Outi Tammisola,
Research Associate,
Department of Engineering,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Principles of function in cellular protein networks
Kimberly Reynolds,
PhD,
Green Center for Systems Biology - Dept. Pharmacology,
Univ. of Texas, SW Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Temperatures and Aerosol Opacities of the Mars Atmosphere at Aphelion: Validation and Inter-comparison of Limb-Sounding Data from MRO-MCS and MGS-TES
James Shirley,
Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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 27th, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Synthesis and Biological Studies of DNA Binding Cyclic Py-Im Polyamides
Benjamin C. Li,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dervan Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
C=C Cyclopropanation and C-H Amination via Carbene and Nitrene Transfers Catalyzed by Engineered Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
Pedro D. Coelho,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Arnold Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Learning and Optimization
Karthik Sridharan,
Department of Statistics,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biologically Induced Snowball Initiation, and Snowball Ocean Dynamics
Eli Tziperman,
Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cell surface remodeling and the ART of endocytosis
Jason MacGurn,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Tailoring Enzyme Cofactor to Profile Substrates and Inhibitors of Protein Methyltransferases
Minkui Luo,
Assistant Professor,
Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
8:00am
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3/13
5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Stability and Bifurcation in a Simple Model for Shape Changes in Discoidal High-Density Lipoproteins
Eliot Fried,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
McGill University,
12:00pm
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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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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Evolution of transcriptional regulation in mammals
Duncan Odom,
Associated Research Group Leader,
Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Stimulus selection for spatial attention: Neural building blocks
Shreesh Mysore,
Postdoctotal Fellow,
Dept. of Neurobiology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Andy Ridgwell,
Professor,
School of Geographical Sciences,
University of Bristol,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Shedding some light on surface chemistry and structure
Michael Gordon,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 1st, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Winding strings on Calabi Yau manifolds and closed geodesics
Peng Gao,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Contact
of
Particles
in
Fluids
Peter Wriggers,
Professor,
Institute of Continuum Mechanics,
Leibniz University of Hannover,