Institute Calendar
February 2013
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Complementarity vs Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum gravity effects near black hole horizons?
Donald Marolf,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Energy-Inconsistent Objective Stress Rates in ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Other FE Codes: Magnitude of Errors and How to Correct Them
Zdenek Bazant,
McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"A molecular geneticist's strategy for understanding the fly brain"
Gerry Rubin,
Vice President and Executive Director,
Janelia Farm Research Campus,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Protonation of Fe Bound Dinitrogen"
John Anderson,
graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
12:00am
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2/3
12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
12:00am
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2/4
12:00am
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
10:00am
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Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Nadine Dabby,
Computation and Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
The James Webb Space Telescope: Exploration Beyond the Mighty Hubble
Dr. Rolf Danner,
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Signaling on a scaffold: Molecular mechanisms for assembly and control of kinase networks
Jesse Zalatan,
Ph.D.,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Building a Better Robot: Designing Automated Control Systems for Astronomical Instruments
Reed L. Riddle,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Studies of extinct Pu-244, I-129 and Cl-36 based on the analysis of xenon and argon isotopes
Grenville Turner,
Professor of Isotope Geochemistry,
School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences,
University of Manchester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Quantum states of matter and anti-matter in gravitational and centrifugal potentials
Valery Nesvizhevsky,
Institut Laue-Langevin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Design and Synthesis of Nanostructured Crystalline Semiconductor (Photo)Electrodes"
Stephen Maldonado,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics,
Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Building an Information Theory for Layered Packet Communication
Tracey Ho,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Dynamics from Classical Trajectories: New approaches to simulating biological and molecular catalysts
Thomas F. Miller, III,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Device-independent quantum information
Velario Scarani,
Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Challenges in searches for binary black holes and black hole-neutron star systems
Duncan Brown,
Syracuse University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Influence of Baryons in Interpreting the Cosmological Model
Alyson Brooks,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Consequences of Electron Precipitation at Mercury: Exosphere Formation and X-ray Aurorae
David Schriver,
Research Geophysicist,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics ,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Molecular Engineering for Non-Invasive Imaging and Control of Biological Function
Mikhail Shapiro,
PhD,
Bioengineering and Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Quantification of Nonlinearity
Norden Huang,
Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis,
National Central University, Taiwan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:30pm
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Beckman Institute Special Seminar
Modeling Regulatory Systems for Sea Urchin Development
Isabelle Peter,
Senior Research Fellow,
Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly
Genevieve Graves,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Model of Persuasion with Boundedly Rational Agents
Ariel Rubinstein,
Department of Economics,
University of Tel Aviv / New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles Megacity as Observed in Pasadena
Sally Newman,
Senior Research Scientist,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for new physics at CMS in hadronic final states
Maurizio Pierini,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Cyclohexadienones As A Challenging Platform for Reaction Discovery and Development
Andrew M. Harned,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Particle Suspensions Near Jamming: Stresses, Moduli, Diffusion, and Rheology
Craig Maloney,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"DNA-Mediated Oxidation of p53 is Regulated by DNA Sequence"
Katie Schaefer,
Barton Group Grad Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Chaperonin-mediated protein folding and beyond
Arthur Horwich,
Sterling Professor of Genetics and HHMI Investigator,
Department of Genetics,
Yale School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Directed evolution strategies for cellular and metabolic engineering
Hal Alper,
Assistant Professor,
Cell and Molecular Biology,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The influence of large-magnitude earthquakes and fault zone damage on the spatial distribution of slow-moving landslides (Joel)
Claire Thomas & Joel Scheingross ,
Graduate Students,
Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,