Institute Calendar
January 2014
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
11:15am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Spin Transport and Majorana Fermions: Exploiting Spin-Orbit Coupling in Semiconductor Nanowires and Topological Insulators
Vlad Pribiag,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience,
Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Saturday, January 4th, 2014
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hacoupian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 6th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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A Mariner's Insights into Titan's Hydrology: Glassy Seas, Fish Finders, and Mystery Islands
Alexander G. Hayes,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy ,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dopamine, subjective value and decision making
Paul E. M. Phillips,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pharmacology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Observation of Floquet-Bloch States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator
Nuh Gedik,
Professor,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Junípero Serra and the Spanish Craze
Richard L. Kagan,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of History,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Is the simplest chemical reaction really so simple?
Richard N. Zare,
Marguerite Wilbur Professor in Natural Science,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Generalization of the central models of molecular evolution in the genomic era
Eugene Koonin,
Senior Investigator,
National Center for Biotechnology Information,
NIH, Bethesda,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
TBD
Alexander Hayes,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The evolution of obscured accretion probed by deep and hard X-ray surveys
Andrea Comastri,
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Imaging and Evolution Approaches to Probing the Chemistry of Living Systems
Bryan Dickinson,
Ph.D.,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Neuroscience Symposium
Emerging Neuroscience: a hiring symposium with future leaders in brain research
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity
Robert Schoelkopf,
Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Composable Mechanisms and Price of Anarchy in Auctions
Eva Tardos,
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science ,
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 10th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Geometry of Supersymmetric Partition Functions
Thomas Dumitrescu,
Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shearing Resistance of Elastomers at Extreme Loading Conditions
Rodney Clifton,
Professor of Engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Supramolecular Bioinorganic Chemistry
Akif Tezcan,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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1/12
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1/12
12:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 13th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Physics seminar
Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4
Clifford Taubes,
Harvard,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Imaging Current in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators
Katja Nowack,
Postdoc,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Nucleosynthesis, Neff, and Neutrino Mass Implications from Dark Radiation
Evan Grohs,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Higher Alcohols
Matthew W. Kanan,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismic Constraints on the Structure and Deformation of Continental Lithosphere
Vedran Lekic,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Geology ,
University of Maryland ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Doing Good and Doing Evil: The Issue of Robustness
Philip Pettit,
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Tracking Influence in Dynamic Social Networks
Rebecca Willett,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tracing the growth history of the active black hole population with the black hole mass function
Andreas Schulze,
Kavli IPMU,
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
11:00am
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12:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Mutation, drift, and the origin of subcellular features"
Michael Lynch,
Professor,
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology,
Indiana University Bloomington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Surveillance and Privacy: A Computer Science Perspective
Edward Felten,
Director,
Center for Information Technology Policy,
Princeton 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
Close Major-Merger Pairs Since z = 1: Evolution of Merger Rate & sSfr Enhancement
Dr. Kevin Xu,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Micro- & Nanoscale Strategies for Systems Biology: Lessons from Immune Cells
Alex K. Shalek,
Ph.D.,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Orbital Dynamics and Stability of (Kepler) Multi-planet Systems
Katherine Deck,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploiting Energetic and Spatial Structure in Quantum Chemistry: Foundations for a New Paradigm
Eric Neuscamman,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Biophysics of Protein Aggregation
Tuomas Knowles,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anthropogenic Aerosol Water: Rediscovering the Importance of Atmospheric Multiphase Chemistry
Annmarie Carlton,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Environmental Sciences,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
New imaging approaches to understand the rhizosphere
Lionel Dupuy,
James Hutton Institute,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploring Mission Concepts with the JPL Innovation Foundry A-Team
John Ziemer,
Concept Innovation Methods Chief,
Innovation Foundry,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 16th, 2014
8:40am
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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
Characterizing the Deformation Signatures of Human Neutrophils in Two and Three-Dimensional Environments
Christian Franck,
Assistant Professor,
School of Engineering,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Binding Site Organization and Subunit Stoichiometry in 5-HT(3) Receptors
Tim Miles,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Bimetallic Olefin Polymerization Catalysis: Mechanisms and Applications of Proximal Effects
Madalyn Radlauer,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Photonic generation of ultrastable microwave signals
Scott Diddams,
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Does the Orbitofrontal Cortex Signal Value?
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, Phd,
Cellular Neurobiology Research Branch, Behavioral Neurophysiology Research Section,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A Fixation with Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Douglas Rees,
Dickinson Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From regeneration to parasitism: systems approaches to understand stem cells in human parasite schistosomes and their free-living planarian cousins
Bo Wang,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute of Genomic Biology,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Probing Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure
Cora Dvorkin,
Postdoctoral Member,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Throwaway Society? A New Look at the History of Waste and Wasting in Modern and Contemporary History
Frank Trentmann,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology,
Birkbeck College, University of London,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration
John Callas,
Project Manager,
Mars Exploration Rover Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 17th, 2014
12:00am
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1/18
12:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Characterizing Anisotropy in the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Chiara M. F. Mingarelli,
Graduate Student,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Birmingham,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Toward Solving Eisenhower's Atomic Dilemma (and Climate Change): A Strategy for U.S. Civil Nuclear Leadership
Victor Reis,
Senior Advisor,
U.S. Department of Energy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Assembling the H-Cluster of [FeFe] Hydrogenase
R. David Britt,
Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of California, Davis,
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)
The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration
John Callas,
Project Manager,
Mars Exploration Rover Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
12:00am
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1/19
12:00am
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Serjik Yeroomian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 19th, 2014
12:00am
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1/20
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 20th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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Systems Biology SuperGroup Meeting
Rob Phillips,
Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Molecular Programming with Synthetic Nucleic-Acid Systems
Lulu Qian,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,