Institute Calendar
April 2013
Friday, April 19th, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Flows
Lorenzo Sironi,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling the Biomechanics of Human Cornea
Anna Pandolfi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Structural Engineering,
Politecnico di Milano,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Chelated Ruthenium Complexes for Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis
Myles Herbert,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 20th, 2013
10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gasparyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 21st, 2013
9:00am
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10:30am
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CicLAvia to the Sea Feeder Ride Sun April 21 (led by Caltech Bike Lab)
See event detail for location
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterization of Ground Motions for Assessing Seismic Risk to Infrastructure
Jack Baker,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2013 Earth Week Lunchtime Speaker
Energy
Sossina Haile,
Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Harry Atwater,
Director, Resnick Institute; Director, Light-Material Interactions Energy Frontier Research Center; Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
Developing New Materials & Manufacturing Processes for Aerospace Applications
Dr. Douglas Hofmann,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"A Systems Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Disease with a Focus on Aortic Wave Dynamics"
Niema Pahlevan,
Ph. D. Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Bence Olveczky,
Assistant Professor,
Neuroscience,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Energetics and the origin of life
Nick Lane,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designing Chemically Robust Metal Oxides for Visible-Light Photocatalysis: toward Solar Z-Scheme Water Splitting
Bart M. Bartlett,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Do Elected Councils Improve Governance Outcomes? Experimental Evidence on Local Institutions in Afghanistan (Joint with Andrew Beath and Fotini Christia)
Ruben Enikolopov,
Nordea Assistant Professor of Finance,
The New Economic School (NES),
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spectral Element Methods in Motion
David Kopriva,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
The Florida State University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2013 Earth Week Lunchtime Speaker
Water
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science,
California Institute of Technology,
John Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Networking Data Centers Randomly
Philip Brighten Godfrey,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Preplay Commitment in First-price Auctions
Yunjian Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Cener for the Mathematics of Information,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous-variable quantum cryptography: Current status and future directions
Christian Weedbrook,
University of Toronto,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Fun with Radicals. Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis
Samir Zard,
Professor,
Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique,
Ecole Polytechnique,
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
Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System
Dr. Scott Sheppard,
DTM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exotic Excitonics: From Organic Crystals to Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
David Reichman,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Motility and directed migration of primordial germs cells in zebrafish
Erez Raz,
Institute of Cell Biology,
ZMBE,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Far-ultraviolet Photometric Characteristics of the Icy Moons of Saturn
Emilie Royer,
Postdoctoral fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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4/25
12:00am
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2013 Earth Week Lunchtime Speaker
Student Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Research
Cole Hershkowitz,
Caltech Alumi, Founder of CHAI Energy,
Morgan Putnam,
PhD, Caltech Alumni, VP of Caelux Corporation,
Fred Walti,
Executive Director, CleanTech LA,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array
Steven Tingay,
Curtin Institute, Western Australia ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Conflict and the Evolution of Societies
David K. Levine,
The John H. Biggs Distinguished Prof. of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Washington University in St. Louis ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Urban Water Infrastructure and the Water and Energy Nexus
Richard Luthy,
Silas H. Palmer Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:40pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
12:00am
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4/26
12:00am
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8:00am
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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2013 Earth Week Lunchtime Speaker
Climate Science & AB 32
Dave Schimel,
PhD, JPL Scientist,
John Onderdonk,
Director, Sustainability Programs,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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