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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
4:00pm 4:00pm
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics

Random Walks and their Scaling Limits
Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Stellar and Dark Mass Assembly of Galaxies
Dr. Niv Drory, Univ. of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Killing persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells: Inspirations from Max Delbruck, Harry Houdini, and Captain James Cook
William Jacobs, Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology and Dept. of Genetics, Albert Einstein School of Medicine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science

Bjorn Benneke, Postdoctoral Scholar, Planetary Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11
Ethan Kaplan, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Maryland,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Singularities and why we love them: universal behaviors in geometric heat flows
Dan Knopf, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Univ. of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar

Energy Leadership: Integrating Policies Across Sectors
Catherine Sandoval, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC),
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Mutual dimension
Jack Lutz, Professor , Mathematics, Iowa State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

The EAGLE Universe
Richard Bower, Durham,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures

Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Austin Minnich, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Plague, Pollution and the Poor in late Renaissance Florence
John Henderson, Department of History, Birkbeck College,
4:15pm 5:30pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Arlases consisting of Bruhat cells
Allen Knutson, Professor, Mathematics, Cornell University,
5:30pm 5:45pm
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Everhart Lecture

A Molecular View of Cancer: Chemically synthesized agents for early detection and screening
Kaycie Deyle, Graduate Student, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Fracture Driving Force and Energy Dissipation in Li-Si Alloy Battery Electrodes
Min Zhou, Professor, The School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

On level 1 algebraic cusp forms of classical groups
Gaetan Chenevier, Professor, Mathematics, École Polytechnique ,
4:00pm 4:00pm
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13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics

Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part II
Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

TBA
Brian Crane, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

Identification of Multidimensional Hedonic Models
Lars Nesheim, Senior Research Economist, University College London,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Explaining Physics in a Minute (or Two)
Henry Reich, MinutePhysics,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
9:00am 10:00am
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Bioengineering Seminar (Vendor)

Improving Protein Expression Through Gene and Vector Optimization
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

TBA
Ibou Bah, University of Southern California,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Hamid Nazerzadeh, Assistant Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs
Andrew Wetzel, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Spikes and bubbles in turbulent mixing: The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Daniel Livescu, Fluid Dynamics Team Leader, Computer and Computational Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Seiberg-Witten Floer KO-theory and intersection forms of spin 4-manifolds
Jianfen Lin, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Making active matter with colloids
Ramin Golestanian, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Congruent skein relations for quantum invariants of links
Qingtao Chen, Professor, Mathematics, ICTP,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

H2 Activation at Rhenium Carbonyl Complexes: A Thermodynamic Analysis of Base-Assisted Formyl C-H Bond
Thomas Teets, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Saturday, April 5th, 2014
9:00am 12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khera Family Portrait

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Payan & Felix Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
Monday, April 7th, 2014
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Seminar Title TBA
Paul Dimotakis, John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,