Institute Calendar
March 2013
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Free Public Lecture
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
John Logsdon,
Professor Emeritus ,
George Washington University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Massive Stars Across the Cosmos: Engines, Lighthouses, and Laboratories
Emily Levesque,
Univ of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Faculty Candidate Seminar
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Zvika Brakerski,
Department of Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A stochastic parcel representation of cumulus convection
Zhiming Kuang,
Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science ,
Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Functioning of the Proteasome: from protein breakdown to cancer therapy
Alfred Goldberg,
Professor,
Dept. of Cell Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Seminar: Behavioral Social Neuroscience (BSN) Seminar and Bray Theory Workshop
Efficient Perceptual Coding and Reference-Dependent Choice
Michael Woodford,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemistry Illuminating Biology: The Design and Synthesis of Chemical Probes for Biological Systems
Stuart J. Conway,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
8:00am
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3/17
5:00pm
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9:45am
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3/16
12:15pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nanoengineered Surfaces for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy and Water
Kripa Varanasi,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
When Thoughts Become Actions - Imaging in Disorders of Consciousness
Adrian Owen,
Senior Scientist/Assistant Director,
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
More than a recycle bin: nutrient sensing and signaling by the lysosome
Roberto Zoncu,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Whitehead Inst. for Biomedical Research,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The World According to GARP; Geophysics, Anisotropy and Realistic Physics
Don Anderson,
Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus,
Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Understanding and Exploiting Catalytic E-H Activation Reactions in Main Group Chemistry
Lisa Rosenberg,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Victoria,
5:00pm
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3/16
12:00am
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
There and Back Again: The Migration of Robotic Arm Technology from Mars to Earth
Brett Kennedy,
Supervisor,
Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:30pm
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A Discussion with Dr. Steve Koonin
The Resnick Sustainability Institute Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Series
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Resnick Sustainability Institute Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Lecture
A Discussion with Steve Koonin
Friday, March 15th, 2013
12:00am
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3/16
12:00am
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12:00am
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3/16
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10:00am
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11:30am
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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
Probing the Large Scale Anisotropies of the Universe from the CMB Temperature and Polarization Data
Grigor Aslanyan,
Research Fellow,
Physics,
University of Auckland, New Zealand,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Dinickel Bisphenoxyiminato Polymerization Catalysts: Tolerance and Incorporation of Amines
Madalyn Radlauer,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Aspects of Mathematical Explanation
Marc Lange,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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5:00pm
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3/17
12:00am
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
There and Back Again: The Migration of Robotic Arm Technology from Mars to Earth
Brett Kennedy,
Supervisor,
Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 16th, 2013
12:00am
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3/17
12:00am
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8:30am
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9:30am
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5:00pm
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3/18
12:00am
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Sunday, March 17th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Brady Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, March 18th, 2013
8:00am
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3/20
5:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Amino Acids and Sugars
Matthew J. Kelley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Blake Group,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Credibility of Confidence Sets in Nonstandard Econometric Problems (with Ulrich Muller)
Andriy Norets,
Assistant Professor,
Economics Department,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, March 19th, 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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Lunch Seminar - "Reinventing Education"
Special Seminar
Anant Agarwal,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Extracting Science from Surveys of our Galaxy
Prof. James Binney,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
New views of transcription and its regulation
John Lis,
Barbara McClinktock Professor ,
Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics,
Cornell University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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