Institute Calendar
April 2014
Monday, April 7th, 2014
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General Biology Seminar
The hologenome concept of evolution
Eugene Rosenberg,
Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology,
Tel Aviv University, Israel,
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 III
Gregory F. Lawler,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Building tissues to understand how tissues build themselves"
Zev Gartner,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Inti Sodemann,
University of Texas at Austin,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Revisiting the ocean's conveyor belt: new observations, new ideas, lingering questions
M. Susan Lozier,
Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson Professor of Ocean Sciences,
Nicholas School of the Environment,
Duke University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spatio-Temporal Correlation Mining
Professor Alfred Hero,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
University of Michigan ,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The specific Star Formation Rate Plateau and the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies between z~8 and z~4
Valentino Gonzalez,
UC Riverside,
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
10:30am
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Tidally Heated ExoMoons (THEM): Theory, Observational Prospects & Astrobiological Possibilities
Prof. Edwin Turner,
Princeton Univ.,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Direct Dynamics and Intrinsic Non-RRKM Dynamics. Applications to SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
William L. Hase,
Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Texas Tech University,
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General Biology Seminar
Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease
Peter Walter,
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Glimpsing the Compositions of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets
Leslie Rogers,
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An inverse spectral problem for Hankel operators
Alexander Pushnitski,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
King's College London,
2:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Some Hurewicz-like tests on the product of two Polish spaces
Rafael Zamora,
Mathematics,
University of Paris,
2:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploiting the Extraordinarily Versatile N-O Bond: Rapid Synthesis of Biaryls, Carbazoles, Primary Aromatic Amines and Aziridines
Laszlo Kurti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biohemistry,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
In situ constraints on reactive nitrogen cycling at atmospheric interfaces
Timothy Bertram,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Demand for Crash Insurance, Intermediary Constraints, and Stock Return Predictability (joint with Hui Chen and Sophie Ni)
Scott Joslin,
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
USC Marshall School of Business,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Conformal Bootstrap Near the Lightcone, and Universality of Long-Distance AdS Physics
Liam Fitzpatrick,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Carbon-Oxygen Bond Activation in Nickel Diphosphine-Ether Complexes
Paul Kelley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering ,
California Institute of Technology,
10:30am
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Number Theory Seminar
Determination of quadratic forms by their representation numbers
Vinayak Vatsal,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Organizing colloids in space and time: from viscoelastic nonequilibrium states to the directed assembly of reconfigurable conducting materials
Kenneth S. Schweizer,
G. Ronald and Margaret H. Morris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Tale of three Eocene rivers in Sonora, Mexico, with implications for Pacific-North American plate motion budget and early Tertiary orogenic gold
John Nourse,
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Number Theory Seminar
p-adic distribution of period integrals for unitary groups
Eric Urban,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Columbia,
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Physics Research Conference
Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces
Harold Hwang,
Professor of Applied Physics, Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Recovery and Application of Greek Mathematics in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Noel M. Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
'For the Benefit of All Mankind': The JPL Technology Transfer Program
Indrani Graczyk,
Manager,
Commercial Program Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
Noppadol Mekareeya,
CERN,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era
Elisabeth Krause,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Size and Temporal Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Nanofibers
Ioannis Chasiotis,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Framed instantons and Khovanov homology
Christopher Scaduto,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ligand Design for Iron-Catalyzed Nitrogen Fixation
Sidney (Sid) Creutz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
'For the Benefit of All Mankind': The JPL Technology Transfer Program
Indrani Graczyk,
Manager,
Commercial Program Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Saturday, April 12th, 2014
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Raab & Leddy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ramirez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Sunday, April 13th, 2014
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Monday, April 14th, 2014
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Program Working Group
Auditory Atmospherics: Noise, Environment, and Infrastructure in L.A.
Marina Peterson,