Institute Calendar
November 2012
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
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Bray Theory Workshop
Limited Willpower
Yusufcan Masatlioglu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate battles between hemispheres during and since the ice age: Palaeoclimate insights from the record of Earth's mountain glaciers and drylands
Aaron Putnam,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Department of Geochemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Goofball Panic: Bureaucratic Rationality, Economic Interest, and Irrational Sentiment in Postwar American Drug Regulation
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor in the School of History & Philosophy,
University of New South Wales,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Experimentalists Guide to Galactic Reynolds Numbers
Henrick Alfredsson,
Professor,
Department of Fluid Physics,
KTH Sweden,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
ATP-Dependent DNA-Mediated Signaling by the Helicase XPD
Timothy Mui,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Winnett Lounge
Toilet Challenge Brings Hope to the Developing World
12:00pm
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2:15pm
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of Earth's Hadley circulation
Xavier Levine,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Seminar
Prineha Narang,
Zn-IV Nitride Based Light Absorbers for Photovoltaics & Photoelectrochemistry,
Materials Science,
Caltech,
Rob Usiskin,
Measuring Activity of Fuel Cell Catalysts via Electrosprayed Dots,
Materials Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Prefrontal Contributions to Decision-Making: Insights from Brain-injured Patients
Lesley Fellows,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurology & Neurosugery,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Working beneath the binodal: the science and engineering of liquids under tension
Abraham Stroock,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sean Long,
Research Assistant Professor,
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The surprising effects of Ferric iron on MgSiO3 perovskite in earth's lower mantle
Daniel Hummer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Quest for Naturalness at the LHC
Raman Sundrum,
University of Maryland,
5:00pm
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
10:00am
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3:00pm
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UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program Interviews
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Average Testing and Pareto Efficiency
Yakov Babichenko,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmological Perturbations: Isocurvature, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields
Adam Christopherson,
Research Fellow,
Center for Astronomy and Particle Physics,
University of Nottingham,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Unfolding Spiral Vortex Breakdown as a Codimension-3 Global Bifurcation
Jean-Marc Chomaz,
Professor,
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX),
Ecole Polytechnique,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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11/17
3:00am
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Saturday, November 17th, 2012
11:30am
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abuel Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: DeLeon Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Reyes Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, November 18th, 2012
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11/19
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11:00am
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Tracking the Evolution of Strong, z=1.5-4.5 CIV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems
Kathy Cooksey,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Uri Hasson,
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ice cores, trapped atmosphere, and climate change
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus,
Professor of Geosciences,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Nanocrystal Assemblies: The Modular Approach to Design of Functional Inorganic Materials"
Dmitri Talapin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Leah Platt Boustan,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multiprocessor Deadline Scheduling for Large Scale Charging of Electric Vehicles
Lang Tong,
Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair Professor in Engineering,
Cornell University,
6:00pm
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
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