Institute Calendar
November 2011
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exploring the Early Bombardment of the Moon and Terrestrial Planets
Bill Bottke,
senior research scientist,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Improving Collider Searches with Effective Field Theory
Nicholas Dunn,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Random matrix theory and the informational limit of eigen-analysis
Raj Rao Nadakuditi,
Assistant Professor,
EECS,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
10:00am
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Dr. Descartes: Resurrecting a Medical Philosopher
Gideon Manning,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Formal Approach to Data Privacy
Katrina Ligett,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Economics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Probing Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres through Transmission Spectroscopy"
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Binary Black Hole Simulations with SpEC
Mark Scheel,
Tapir,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Equilibrium Pricing of Semantically Substitutable Digital Goods and Welfare ?Theorems for the Resulting Mixed Economy
Vijay Vazirani,
Professor,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dynamics of the epigenetic landscape during mouse hematopoietic differentiation
Ross Hardison,
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology,
the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Microbial Geomorphology
Heather Viles,
Professor,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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Swift Lecture
Discovery of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry
David Milstein,
Israel Matz Professorial Chair of Organic Chemistry,
the Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Power
Eric Chaney,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
8:00am
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Bray Theory Workshop
An Empirical Equilibrium Model of a Decentralized Asset Market
Alessandro Gavazza,
assistant professor of economics,
Stern School of Business,
New York University,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Bio-Inspired Cognition and Diffusion Adaptation over Networks
Ali H Sayed,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CalTech vs GaTech: Secondary organic aerosol and soluble brown carbon
Rodney Weber,
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Manipulation of Mammalian Viruses
Isaac Carrico,
professor of chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
6:00pm
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
8:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies : a landmark for galaxy formation.
Pascale Jablonka,
(EPFL, Switzerland / Caltech) ,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Close Encounters of the Fear Kind
Dean Mobbs,
Senior Investigator Scientist,
MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Engineered synthetic antibodies as chaperones for structural and biological applications
Anthony Kossiakoff,
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Are your tears too salty?
Clayton J. Radke,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Tsunami Interaction with Nearshore Infrastructure
Patrick Lynett,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Black Holes- the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century
Andrew Strominger,
Gwill E. York Professor of Physics Director,
Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature,
Harvard University,
6:00pm
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
A Review of Work from the Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) 2011
Elizabeth Bodin-Baron,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
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GALCIT Colloquium
High Reynolds Number Wall Turbulence
Ivan Marusic,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemistry of Self-Assembling Inorganic Membranes: Simulating the Origin of Metabolism in Hydrothermal Systems
Laura M. Barge,
Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at JPL,
NASA Astrobiology Institute Icy Worlds Team,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
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10:00am
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Christening Photography on Campus: Vardanyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gunarto Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vardanyan Wedding Party
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