Institute Calendar
March 2013
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exploding stars and Cosmic Acceleration: Better Precision in the Infrared
Robert Kirshner,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Ordering Ambiguous Acts
Sujoy Mukerji,
Department of Economics,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning in an Adversarial World, with Connections to Pricing, Hedging and Routing
Jacob Abernethy,
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical compensation of hemispheric albedo asymmetries
Aiko Voigt,
Postdoctoral scientist,
The Atmosphere in the Earth System,
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Quantitative View of the Bacterial Proteome
Gene-Wei Li,
Postdoctotal Fellow,
Dept of Cellualr and Molecular Pharmacology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - - NOTE DATE CHANGE
Supramolecular Analytical Chemistry
Eric V. Anslyn,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of Texas at Austin,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
8:30am
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10:30am
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Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion: Free Webinar
Approaches to Ultrahigh Efficiency Solar Energy Conversion
Harry Atwater,
Howard Hughes Professor ,
Department of Applied Physics Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Eli Yablonovitch,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
John Rogers,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Paul Alivisatos,
Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
Paul Braun,
Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Nate Lewis,
George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Novel Means for Localization and Identification of Remote Acoustic Sources
David Dowling,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Understanding the Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in the Brain and Neurodegenerative Disease
Andrew Wang,
Grad Student, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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Informal Seminar
The road to become CD4+ helper T cells
Ichiro Taniuchi,
Group Director,
Laboratory of Transcirptional Regulation,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute,
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
TBA
Lars Hernquist,
Prof.,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Spraying the way to shape- and architecturally-controlled nanostructures
Sara Skrabalak,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning with Humans in the Loop
Yisong Yue,
Machine Learning Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Unraveling the transcriptional network controlling biofilm development in Candida albicans
Clarissa Nobile,
Postdoctotal Fellow,
Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology,
UCSF,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum fluctuations: From the Casimir Effect to Quantum Entanglement
Israel Klich,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
University of Virginia,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
8:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Combustion Dynamics in Propulsion Systems
Vigor Yang,
William R. T. Oakes Professor and Chair,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:20pm
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6:20pm
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3:20pm
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Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture
Mechanisms of virus entry into cells
Stephen C. Harrison,
Professor,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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This Seminar has been cancelled - Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Bohr's Invention of the Quantum Atom: A Fresh Look via Newly Available Material
John Heilbron,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 9th, 2013
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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2:20pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 10th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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1:20pm
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Improving the Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides
David Church Montgomery,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dervan Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Jack Gallant,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Psychology,
University California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
SmB6: An Ideal Topological Insulator
Jing Xia,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California Irvine,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Tropical Convection, Waves, and Climate
Zhiming Kuang,
Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ,
Harvard University ,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Institutional Choices and House of Commons Debate, 1832-1915 (joint with Andrew Eggers)
Arthur Spirling,
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences,
Department of Government,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Seismic Interferometry
Robert Clayton,
Professor of Geophysics and Divisional Academic Officer for Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
'Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback: VLT/Xshooter and HST/COS Observations'
Nahum Arav,
Virginia Tech,
6:00pm
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
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6:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational waves and neutrino emissions from compact binary mergers
Kenta Kiuchi,
University of Kyoto,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The James Webb Space Telescope
Dr. John Gardner,
NASA GSFC,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Encoding and decoding of touch perception in cortical circuits
Samuel Andrew Hires,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Janelia Farm Research Campus,
HHMI,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Evolution of Protoplanet Vesta: What have we learned from Dawn?
Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Query Theory: A Process Account of Preference Construction
Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business; Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School ,