Institute Calendar
March 2014
Friday, March 21st, 2014
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
On the Hardness of Signaling
Shaddin Dughmi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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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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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis with Ruthenium Catalysis: Mechanistic Studies and Synthetic Applications
Myles Herbert,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
9:00am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Snwandi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Park Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sanchez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dow Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kennedy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 24th, 2014
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Computational Connectomics: Mapping and Modeling Complex Brain Networks
Olaf Sporns,
Professor,
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Watching a Renaissance Cartographer at Work: The Construction of Waldseemüller's Carta marina (1516)
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Atmospheric characterization of the hot Jupiter exoplanet Kepler-13Ab: Hot and shiny
Avi Shporer,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
9:00am
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2:30pm
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GSC Graduate Development Workshop
Learning to Manage Yourself, Your Colleagues, and Your Boss
Mandy Cassil,
Counseling Center,
April White-Castaneda,
Executive Director,
Human Resources,
9:30am
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10:30am
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Powerful Atomic and Molecular Galactic Winds and Their Cosmological Implications
Prof. Sylvain Veilleux,
Univ. of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Molecular Elucidation and Engineering of the Stem Cell Niche
David Schaffer,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Ring Fragmentations and Cationic Heteroallenes: Unconventional Routes to Nitrogen Heterocycles
Matthias Brewer,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Vermont,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Terminal and Extended Assemblies of Nanoparticles
Nicholas Kotov,
Joseph and Florence Cejka Professor of Engineering ,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
10:30am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
An anticyclotomic main conjecture and Heegner points
Christopher Skinner,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Friday, March 28th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A fairly complete description of the reaction mechanism of the bacterial vitamin B12 transporter BtuCD-F
Kaspar Locher,
Professor of Molecular Membrane Biology,
Department of Biology,
ETH Zurich,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Surface Immobilization of Molecular Electrocatalysts for Fuel Production
James D. Blakemore,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 29th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Perez & Cabrera Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chung & Jung Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 30th, 2014
9:00am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Valdez Art Class
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, March 31st, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Moral Hazard in Dynamic Risk Management (Joint with D. Possamai and N. Touzi)
Jaksa Cvitanic,
Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
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 Engineering Seminar
Commercial Space Flight at SpaceX – Delivering Cargo Today and Crew Tomorrow
Garrett Reisman,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Collaborative Research Seminar
Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts
Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós,
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Integration of paper microfluidic methods for detection of infectious diseases in low resource settings"
Paul Yager,
Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level
Manuel Endres,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Hydrodynamics and collective behavior of the tethered bacterium Thiovulum majus
Alexander Petroff,
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Fellow,
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Exploring dark sectors with low-energy experiments
Bertrand Echenard,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal Oxo and Hydroxo Complexes in Chemistry and Biology
Andy Borovik,
Professor,
Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,