Institute Calendar
January 2012
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
7:30am
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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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Markarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Probing Inter-Atomic Interactions in a 87Sr Optical Lattice Clock via Precision Spectroscopy
Michael Martin,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Multiverse of String Theory, The Measure Problem, And The Cosmological Constant
Raphael Bousso,
Professor, Theoretical Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Rethinking the replication-repair interface: single-molecule analysis joins BRCA1/2 and Fanconi Anemia proteins in a novel DNA fork protection pathway
Katharina Schlacher,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute and UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Rational Herding in Microloan Markets
Juanjuan Zhang,
Associate Professor of Marketing,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fish, Dipoles and Vortices
Eva Kanso,
Associate Professor ,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Structure, Spectroscopy, and Thermochemistry of Paramagnetic Cobalt Dihydrogen and Dinitrogen Complexes
Daniel Suess,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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1/14
3:00am
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War: Opportunities in Controlling Personal Data
Robert Cresanti,
Vice President,
SAP,
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chaharmahali Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Sunday, January 15th, 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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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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1/30
1:00pm
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Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Events
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:00am
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
7:30am
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Algorithmic Challenges for Greening IT
Adam Wierman,
Assistant Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Investigations on Low-Valent Group 8 and 9 Metalloradicals
Ayumi Takaoka,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Probabilistic Models of Sensorimotor Control and Decision Making
Daniel Wolpert,
rofessor,
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
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
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark L. Brongersma,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The quipucamayocs of ubiquitin: deciphering a cellular code
Michael Rape,
Asst. Professor,
Molecular and Cell Biology,
Univ. of California - Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The Modeling of the Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation
Alberto Dominguez,
UC Riverside,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Emission Mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Andrei Beloborodov,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
David Romps,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkley,
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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Thursday, January 19th, 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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11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seismic Hazards in Japan: Role of Seismology in a Modern Living Environment
Hiroo Kanamori,
John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics,
Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Causation and Probability-Raising
Luke Glynn,
McDonnell Postdoctoral Scholar in Philosophy,
Caltech,