Institute Calendar
October 2011
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contagion and Uninvadability in Social Networks with Bilingual Option (joint with Daisuke Oyama)
Satoru Takahashi,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Self-Assembled Nanostructures in Mixed III-V and III- N Epitaxial Layers and their Influence on Devices
Subhash Mahajan,
Distinguished Professor and Special Adviser to the Chancellor ,
University of California, Davis,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Recognition of Nucleic Acid Mismatches by Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
Hang Song,
Chemistry Graduate Student, Barton Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
On the complexity of the commuting local Hamiltonian problem and tight conditions for Topological Order in such systems
Lior Eldar,
Hebrew University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Tailoring electrocatalyst materials at the nano-scale: Controlling activity, selectivity, and stability for energy conversion reactions
Thomas F. Jaramillo,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Fast Global Convergence of Gradient Methods for High-Dimensional Statistical Recovery
Sahand Negahban,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
California Water
John Hall,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New topologically ordered phases of condensed matter
Joel Moore,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Molecular Genetics of Economic Decision Making
Chew Soo Hong,
Lab for Behavioral & Biological Economics & the Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
Richard P Ebstein,
Lab for Behavioral & Biological Economics & the Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
6:00pm
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Oligopoly Games under Asymmetric Costs
Andrew Ledvina,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Spectroscopic Studies of Model Complexes to Interrogate the Structure and Reactivity of Oxygenated Diiron Protein Intermediates
Loi Do,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gardner Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Voskanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
12:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Matzen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bazikyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Huang Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kidd Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
1:00pm
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
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Thesis Seminar
Silicon Nanostructure Photovoltaics
Douglas Tham,
Chemistry Graduate Student, Heath Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Are Brightest Halo Galaxies Central Galaxies?'
Ramin Skibba,
Steward Observatory,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Internal versus external controls on fast glacier flow
Gwenn Flowers,
associate professor of Earth sciences and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology,
Simon Fraser University,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal Catalyzed Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Vinyl Monomers
Richard F. Jordan,
Professor and Department Chair,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Optimization of Polynomial Roots, Eigenvalues and Pseudospectra
Michael Overton,
Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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