Institute Calendar
February 2013
Friday, February 8th, 2013
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Humanities Event
THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals
Judea Pearl,
Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Research Conference
THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals
Judea Pearl,
Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics,
UCLA,
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
10:30pm
Add to Cal
Friday, February 8th, 2013
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
11:30am
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
Cosmology 2017: Testing Gravity, Dark Energy, and Neutrinos
Eric Linder,
Co-Director,
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
TBD
Fernando Brandao,
ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
TOSHI KUBOTA LECTURE in Aerospace
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Ian A. Waitz,
Dean of the School of Engineering, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
–
4:30pm
Add to Cal
Resnick Institute Seminar
Challenges and Opportunities for Long Life Energy Storage Technologies
Ping Liu,
ARPA-E,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Investigating the Mechanism of Ferritin Protection of DNA: Can the Bacterial Ferritin Dps Utilize DNA Charge Transfer to Protect the Genome from a Distance?"
Anna Arnold,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Saturday, February 9th, 2013
12:00am
–
2/10
12:00am
Add to Cal
12:00am
–
2/10
12:00am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Engagement Photography on Campus: Jauregui Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, February 11th, 2013
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
General Biology Seminar - Informal
Regulation of metabolic dormancy by reversible phosphorylation of translational GTPases
Jonathan Dworkin,
Associate Professor,
Dept. Microbiology and Immunology,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Biophysics Lecture
Computational Protein Interface Design, Cystic Fibrosis, and HIV
Bruce Donald,
Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry,
Departments of Computer Science and Biochemistry,
Duke University Medical Center,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
tba
Gabriel Kreiman,
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
First direct measurements of heat and carbon transport across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Raffaele Ferrari,
Breene M. Kerr Professor of Oceanography,
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Recent Advances in Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Hydrogenations and CO2 Reduction
Douglas W. Stephan,
Professor, Canada Research Chair,
Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Neurobiology Seminar
"Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factors: Novel Regulators of Neuronal Excitability
Jeanne Nerbonne,
Alumni Endowed Professor,
Dept. of Developmental Biology,
Washington University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Final Passages: Slave Trafficking from the Caribbean to North America
Gregory E. O'Malley,
Assistant Professor of History,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:15pm
–
5:15pm
Add to Cal
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
10:00am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
2/14
4:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Dev Bio SuperGroup Meeting
Mihoko Kato,
Sternberg Lab,
Biology,
Caltech,
Thai Truong,
Fraser Lab,
Biology,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
Neurons Anticipated Mathematical Statistics and Information Theory by 100 Million Years
Toby Berger,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Virginia,
1:30pm
–
4:30pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exponential decay of correlations implies area law
Fernando Brandao,
ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies
Charlie Conroy,
Prof.,
UCSC,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Impact Induced Decompression Melting of the Martian Mantle: The Formation of Widespread Infilled Craters and Inter-Crate Plains; Dark Spots on the Seasonal CO2 Ice Polar Caps on Mars, Clues to Better Understand the Seasonal Processes
Christopher Edwards,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Cedric Pilorget,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Neurobiology Seminar
"Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance in Circuits of Mouse Visual Cortex"
Andreas Burkhalter,
Professor,
Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Washington University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
An Engineering Analysis of Natural and Biomimetic Self-Repair Processes for Solar Energy Harvesting
Ardemis Boghossian,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone frequency to climate changes
Timothy Merlis,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for Theoretical Science and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ,
Princeton,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wiersma Lecture
"Understanding the Regulation of Intrinsic Neuronal Excitability . . . One K+ Channel at a Time"
Jeanne Nerbonne,
Alumni Endowed Professor,
Dept. of Developmental Biology,
Washington University School of Medicine,
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
10:30pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
8:00am
–
2/15
5:00pm
Add to Cal
9:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Highly Turbulent Flames: Another Variation on the Counterflow Theme
Alessandro Gomez,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Yale University,