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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
9:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Bjorn Benneke,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
12:00pm
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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
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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
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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5:30pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Arlases consisting of Bruhat cells
Allen Knutson,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Cornell University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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5:30pm
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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,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
11:00am
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
TBA
Brian Crane,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, April 4th, 2014
12:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Bioengineering Seminar (Vendor)
Improving Protein Expression Through Gene and Vector Optimization
10:30am
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11:30am
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Kick-Off of the Franklin Thomas Laboratory of Engineering Renovation
See event detail for location
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs
Andrew Wetzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
6:30pm
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9:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 5th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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6:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khera Family Portrait
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Payan & Felix Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:50pm
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Sunday, April 6th, 2014
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 7th, 2014
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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,