Institute Calendar
October 2013
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Piet van der Kruit,
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Higgsogenesis: dark matter and baryogenesis from the Higgs
Sean Tulin,
Univ of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Francesco Trebbi,
University of British Columbia,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Planetesimals to Giant Planets: Chemical and Dynamical Probes of Planet Formation
Joan Najita,
NOAO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials and Interfaces
William R. Dichtel,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of oceans in setting climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks
Brian Rose,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences,
University at Albany, SUNY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Designing metallic glasses with tailored radiation response using reduced order mesoscale models
Michael J. Demkowicz,
John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials and Interfaces
William R. Dichtel,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 24th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Premixed Combustion Subjected to Intense Turbulence Levels - Physical Mechanisms Identified Using High Speed Imaging
James F. Driscoll,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Moving lipids across membranes
Anant Menon,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Weill Cornell Medical College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Structure and translocation in Nuclear Pore Complexes
Igal Szleifer,
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers
Persi Diaconis,
Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics,
Stanford University,
5:10pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, October 25th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory
Benjamin Safdi,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Do Galaxy Clusters Boil?
Mike McCourt,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
U.C. Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Size-dependent Continuum Modeling of Flowing Granular Media
Ken Kamrin,
Class of '56 Career Development Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Instittute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Scalable Fabrication Techniques for Silicon Microwire Arrays
Heather Audesirk,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, October 26th, 2013
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yang Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Learn to Ride Safely on the Road with C.I.C.L.E. (free & sponsored by Caltech Bike Lab)
See event detail for location
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, October 28th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalytic Transformation of Strong s-Bonds: from New Cross-Coupling to Heterocycle Synthesis
Mamoru Tobisu,
Associate Professor,
Center for Atomic and Molecular Technologies,
Osaka University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Protein structure determination using low-resolution experimental and evolutionary data"
David Baker,
Head of the Institute for Protein Design, and Professor of Biochemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Bottom-Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry in the Standard Model and Beyond
Chris Murphy,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Returning from the deep: Archean atmospheric fingerprints in modern hotspot lavas
Matthew G. Jackson,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of California, Santa Barbara ,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Advancements in modeling galaxy mergers: Synthetic observations and a more accurate numerical method
Chris Hayward,
ITS, Heidelberg,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Geoengineering the Earth's Climate (The World's Largest Control Problem!)
Doug MacMartin,
Senior Research Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
ENZ and MNZ Phenomena
Nader Engheta,
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor,
University of Pennslyvania,
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
Dr. Chris Hayward,
Heidelberger Inst. for Theoretical Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Design of protein structures, functions, and assemblies
David Baker,
Professor,
Biochemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Gauge Theories for Baryon and Lepton Numbers
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
MPI, Heidelberg,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
8:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
New Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Aza-Propellane Natural Products
Raul Navarro,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical tracers of galaxy assembly
Jean Brodie,
UCO Lick Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty
Amanda Friedenberg,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Petri nets, chemistry, and quantum theory
John Baez,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Riverside,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proximity Effect Induced Topological Superconductor and Majorana Modes
Jinfeng Jia,
Professor,
Physics,
Shanghai Jia Tong University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Smart Grid & Climate Change: Socio-political Influence on Energy System Change
Jennie Stephens,
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy,
Clark University,