Institute Calendar
November 2012
Ongoing
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11/6
5:00pm
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Focused Ultrasound to Expel Calculi from the Kidney
Michael Bailey,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Activated GTPase Movement on an RNA Scaffold Drives Cotranslational Protein Targeting
Kuang Shen,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
PKA: Assembly of a dynamic macromolecular signaling complex
Susan Taylor,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Professor of Pharmacology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Molecular clocks and the Cambrian-Explosion: What have we learned?
Bruce Runnegar,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Views of the Physics of Solar Flares (and Subcosmic Rays)
Hugh Hudson,
University of Glasgow,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetry on Curved Spaces and Holography
Claudius Klare,
Milan-Bicocca,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nucleosynthetic Signatures of Supernova Neutrinos
Luke Roberts,
Lee Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Bio-inspired Hierarchical Materials: Micromechanics, GPU-Based Simulation and 3D Printing
Matthew Begley,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Homogeneous versus Heterogeneous Water-Oxidation Catalysis with Cp*Ir Complexes
James Blakemore,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg,
Department of History,
UC Davis,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
8:00am
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4:00pm
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8:30am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yarmgyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Explosive Deaths of Massive Stars
Iair Arcavi,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planets of 1-4 Earth-Radii: Masses, Radii, and Densities
Geoff Marcy,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrochemical Synthesis of Electrode and Catalyst Materials for Use in Solar Energy Conversion
Kyoung-Shin Choi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Spitzer Surveys of Super-Earth Transits and Sub-Saturn to Super-Jupiter Secondary Eclipses (Josh Kammer); Warm Inner Disks in the Infrared: Synthetically Removing Atmospheric Absorption for Greater Sensitivity (Masha Kleshcheva)
Josh Kammer,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
Masha Kleshcheva,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs
Per-Gunnar J. Martinsson,
Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Resnick Sustainability Institute Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Lecture
A Discussion with Dr. Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar,
Founding Director of ARPA-E and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy,
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Network Approach to Public Goods
Matt Elliott,
Assistant Professor,
Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
QUIET
Anthony Readhead,
Prof.,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Alejandro López Ortega,
"Numerical simulations of Richtmyer-Meshkov flow in multi-material problems",
Jason Rabinovitch,
"A Proposed Vertical Expansion Tunnel",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Direct Detection of Exoplanets With High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy (Alex Lockwood); Mapping Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disk (Ke Zhang)
Alexandra Lockwood,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ke Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Neurobiology Seminar
Functional Modules: what good are they, and how do we get them?
Margaret Livingstone,
Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study (joint with Thomas Palfrey)
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Photochemical signatures in rocks
James Lyons,
Associate Researcher,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
No More Nucleophiles: Direct, Selective Cross Coupling of Electrophiles
Daniel J. Weix,
Assistant Professor ,
Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture
What art can tell us about the brain
Margaret Livingstone,
Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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