Institute Calendar
January 2012
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
1:00am
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Ongoing
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What the #*!$ is dark matter? One astrophysicist's perspective
Annika Peter,
UC Irvine,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
7:30am
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8:30am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology seminar
The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors: a "sixth sense"
Clare Baker,
Dept. of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)
S. R. Kulkarni,
Principal Investigator, Palomar Transient Factory, Director, Caltech Optical Observatories,
Caltech,
Friday, January 6th, 2012
9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3-Manifolds, 3d SCFT's, and 3d Indices
Tudor Dimofte,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Epidemics, Graphs and Eigenvalues
Subhonmesh Bose,
Graduate Student,
Caltech, Electrical Engineering,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Biology seminar
"Human artificial chromosomes for gene delivery, and their medical and pharmaceutical applications"
Mitsuo Oshimura,
Professor,
Tottori University, Japan,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fatigue of structures: basic concepts, cyclic behavior, numerical procedures and lifetime models
Mahaman Habibou Maitournam,
Professor,
Ecole Polytechnique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Strange and Wonderful Photophysical World of Per(difluoroborated) Platinum-POP
Yan Choi Lam,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How to Destroy Probabilities and Lives by Trying to Make Things Safer
Adam Elga,
Department of Philosophy,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bakalyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tahmasian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gharzal Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, January 9th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Designing Biological Systems for Health and Sustainability
Pamela Silver,
Professor,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Features
Yann LeCun,
Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Neural Science,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The many flavors of oxygen-minimum zones present and past
Donald Canfield,
Professor of Ecology,
Institute of Biology,
Professor of Ecology, Institute of Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Gender Differences in Productivity Responses to Performance Rankings: Evidence From a Randomized Workplace Experiment
Iwan Barankay,
Associate Professor,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
7:30am
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8:30am
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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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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
New theory of difference hypergeometric and Whittaker functions
Ivan Cherednik,
Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Towards a Science of Integrated Systems Design
Radu Marculescu,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"VEGF signaling pathways in vascular morphogenesis"
Luisa Iruela-Arispe,
Professor,
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Heather Knutson,
Assistant Professor,
Div. Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special CCE Seminar
Personal Experiences & Lessons Learned in 20+ Years of Industrial R&D
William Banholzer,
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer ,
Dow Chemical Company,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
Dr. Peng Jiang,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest
Roger Bales,
Professor,
Engineering,
University of California, Merced,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Fluorescent Probes of DNA Structure and Function
Nathan W. Luedtke,
Professor Dr.,
Institute of Organic Chemistry,
University of Zurich,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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