Institute Calendar
October 2011
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
2:30pm
–
4:30pm
Add to Cal
Wedding Photography on Campus: Kocharyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
9:30am
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
5:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
Wedding Photography on Campus: Arslanian/Banjarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 10th, 2011
9:00am
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Generic wavefunction approach to two-dimensional fractional topological insulators
Xiao-Liang Qi,
Asssistan Professor of Physics,
Department of Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for Extra Dimensions and Black Holes at CMS
Greg Landsberg,
Brown University,
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Tea Talk
Encounters at the Edge of a Cluster: Environment's Effect on Galaxy Evolution
Dennis Just,
(Steward Observatory) ,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Sensory Processing in a Small Brain
Rachel Wilson,
Associate Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Sources and Cycling of Organic Matter in a Changing Arctic Ocean: Patterns, Proxies and Processes
H. Rodger Harvey,
professor and chair,
Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Old Dominion University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Synthetic Design Tools for Complex Inorganic Solids and Nanostructures
Raymond Schaak,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science Job Candidate
Dynamic Political Distortions Under Alternative Constitutional Settings
Carlo Prato,
Graduate Student,
Northwestern University,
4:15pm
–
5:15pm
Add to Cal
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Chi-Square and Classical Exact Tests Often Wildly Misreport Significance; the Remedy Lies in Computers
Rachel Ward,
Assistant Professor / Harrington Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
A Talk with Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men
Andy Bichlbaum,
The YES MEN,
7:30pm
–
10:30pm
Add to Cal
Skeptics Society Lecture
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Dr. Lisa Randall,
physicist and cosmologist,
Harvard University,
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
10:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Progress on Flapping-wing Robotic Insects
Robert Wood,
Associate Professor,
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
Bridging Photonics and Computing
Mario Paniccia,
Intel Fellow and Director of the Photonics Technology Lab,
Corporate Technology Group,
Intel Corporation,
1:15pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:30pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Type Ia Supernovae: Standardizable Candles and Crayons
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Chemical Physics Seminar
The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches
Alan Aspuru-Guzik,
associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology ,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Number Form Area in the Human Inferior Temporal Cortex: An Intracranial Electrocorticography and Electrical Brain Stimulation Study in Conscious Human Subjects
Josef Parvizi,
Assistant Professor,
Neurology & Neurological Sciences,
Stanford,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
General Biology Seminar
Signal transduction pathways in cancer and genomic integrity
Tony Hunter,
professor of molecular and cell biology,
Salk Institute,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Resnick Institute Lecture
Mechanochemistry for Biomass-Derived Chemicals
Richard Blair,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Central Florida,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division
Wang Sang Koon,
Senior Scientist,
Control and Dynamical Systems ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Future of Federally Funded Surveys & Why Most of What We Know about Public Opinion could be Wrong: A Randomized Test of Mode of Interview
Lynn Vavreck,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Los Angeles,
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
10:00am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Looking at the dynamics of the inner Galaxy with Herschel - HIGGS: The Herschel Inner Galaxy Gas Survey
Chris Martin,
Oberlin College,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
1:15pm
–
2:30pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Charge Orbits and Symmetries for Supersymmetric Black Holes
Sergio Ferrara,
CERN,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium
Turbulence, Computers and Stars
David Arnett,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change and the End of Exponential Growth
Pieter Tans,
Senior Research Scientist,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science Job Candidate
Turnout Matters: Evidence from Compulsory Voting in Australia
Anthony Fowler,
Graduate Student,
Department of Government,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Earnest C. Watson Lecture
Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions?
Antonio Rangel,
Professor of Economics and Neuroscience,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
9:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium
The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium
9:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:30am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Neurodynamics of Automatic Behavior
F. Gregory Ashby,
Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Research Conference
The Physics of Superconducting Calorimeters: Applications in Nuclear Safeguards
Kent Irwin,
Fellow, NIST, U.S. Dept. of Commerce ,
Professor Adjoint, Dept. of Astrophysics & Planetary Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
Wedding Photography on Campus: Gonzalez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
'Throw That Junk!': The Art of the Movie in Citizen Kane
Jeffrey Knapp,
Chancellor's Professor of English,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:30pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
Von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
A Self-Powered Underwater Robot
Dr. Yi Chao & Thomas Valdez,,
Principal Investigator, SOLO-TREC, ,
Engineering Staff, Electrochemical Technologies Group,
Friday, October 14th, 2011