Institute Calendar
January 2012
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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CMA presents "The Federal Budget Impasse: Is There a Way Out?"
Dr. Richard O'Toole,
Manager,
Office of Legislative Affairs,
JPL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be Announced
Riley Duren,
Chief Systems Engineer,
Earth Science & Technology Directorate,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microchannel microreactors as tools for laboratory measurements of reaction kinetics
Dan Hickman,
Dr.,
Engineering and Process Sciences,
The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Still Water: Dead Zone and Collimated Ejecta from the Impact of a Granular Jet
Wendy W. Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Physics and James Frank Institute,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Productivity and Credibility in Industry Equilibrium
Michael Powell,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
God and the 80386: Where the Engineer of the Most Famous CPUs Finds his Motivation
Patrick Gelsinger,
President and Chief Operating Officer,
EMC Corporation,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:15pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
9:00am
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James K. Knowles Lecture & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Materials for the Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity
Richard D. James,
Professor,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices (joint with B. Douglas Bernheim, Colin Camerer, and Antonio Rangel)
Alec Smith,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Microbiology/Biochemistry Seminar
Flavin-based electron bifurcation, a novel mechanism of energy conservation in anaerobes.
Rolf Thauer,
Professor of Microbiology,
Max Planck Institute, Marburg (Germany),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Energy Exchange and Control of Unsteady Lift in Gusting Flows
David Williams,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Illinois Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Activator-Free Oligomerizations and Oxidative Transformations Catalyzed by Palladium Hydroxy-Bridged Dimers
Matthew Winston,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Feynman Diagrams
Adrian Wuthrich,
Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khalili Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:30am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avetisov Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
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Bioengineering Lecture
Learning to Program Cell Signaling Systems
Wendell Lim,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice
Jonathan Simon,
Dr.,
Physics Department,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Sedimentation in lakes versus the ocean: is salinity a necessary condition for the subaqueous formation of continental shelves?
Gary Parker,
W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology,
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Evidence for Dibosons with Decays to Heavy Quarks: A Validation of Low Mass Higgs Searches at D0
Joe Haley,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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Informal Biology seminar
"Transcriptional regulation of pathogenic IL-5-producing memory Th2 cell function"
Toshinori Nakayama,
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Immonology,
Chiba University, Japan,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian
Amit Singer,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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IST Lunch Bunch
Weapons of Math Induction for the War on Error
Robert A. van de Geijn,
Professor,
Department of Computer Sciences and Texas Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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Thesis Seminar
Accelerating the interplay between theory and experiment in protein design
Alex Nisthal,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Surprises in ionic driven assembly of membranes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz,
Lawyer Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Materials Science,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
May the force be with you: searching for ion channels that respond to pressure
Ardem Patapoutian,
Professor,
Department of Cell Biology,
Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Dynamics of the Outer Solar System
Ruth Murray-Clay,
Astrophysicist and Lecturer,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interaction of Planning Areas in Cerebral Cortex
R. Chess Stetson,
Computation & Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technolgoy,
7:00pm
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Fiction Reading
Fiction Reading
Mat Johnson,
Novelist; Creative Writing Program Professor,
The University of Houston,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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