Institute Calendar
April 2014
Monday, April 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Right Type of Legislator (joint with Andrea Mattozzi)
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Circuits underlying cortical decisions
Anthony Zador,
Professor,
Biology,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions
Marcel Franz,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Crystal records from the Deep: A unique archive of magmatic processes from source to surface
Philipp Ruprecht,
Lamont Assistant Research Professor ,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geochemistry,
Columbia University/Earth Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
Nick Hutzler,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The distribution of metals in the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium
Neil Crighton,
Swinburne,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Free Open Lecture
The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes Using Space Observations
Dr. Andrea Donnellan,
Principal Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Mars Code
Gerard Holzmann,
Laboratory for Reliable Software (LaRS),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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Systems Biology SuperGroup Meeting
Grant Jensen,
Professor,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
The Submillimeter Perspective on Cosmic Star Formation
Dr. Caitlin Casey,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Macromolecular Translocation Through Nanopores
Murugappan Muthukumar,
Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering,
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:30pm
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GSC Graduate Development Workshop
Doing Big Things: Project Management in Graduate School
Charles Elachi,
Director,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Larissa Charnsangavej,
Residential Life Coordinator,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
The Grand Tack: Jupiter's Migration to 1.5 AU, and How it Shaped the Inner Solar System
Kevin Walsh,
Research Scientist,
Dept. of Space Studies,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Ethnic Inequality
Alberto Alesina,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Challengers as Monitors: Implications for the Incumbency Advantage and Voter Welfare
Scott Ashworth,
University of Chicago,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Function approximation on unstructured data
Hrushikesh Mhaskar,
Visiting Associate,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolutionury
Sun Kwok,
Univ of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Is there a need for an ice-sheet—ocean observation system?
Knut Christianson,
Postdoctoral Scientist,
Department of Environmental Studies and Physics,
St. Olaf College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Two bacterial genomes with the functionality of one: non-adaptive speciation in a symbiont
John McCutcheon,
Assistant Professor,
Microbial Genomics and Symbiosis,
Div. of Biological Sciences, University of Montana,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Underutilized Functional Groups as Tools for Discovery
Jennifer M. Schomaker,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 17th, 2014
9:30am
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5:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Alteration of Cancer Metabolism via O-GlcNAc
Matthew Griffin,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Grab, Pull, and Cut: Mechanisms of Protein Degradation by the 26S Proteasome
Andreas Martin,
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Using MetRxn for metabolic model reconstruction, flux elucidation and strain redesign
Costas D. Maranas,
Donald B. Broughton Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 18th, 2014
8:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Design, Construction and Applications of a High Resolution Terahertz Time-Domain ASOPS Spectrometer
Daniel Holland,
Graudate Student in Chemistry, Blake group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions (joint with Isa Hafalir)
Antonio Miralles,
Assistant Professor,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms
Guillaume Bossard,
Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
The Reach and Relevance of the Indian Space Program
K. Radhakrishnan,
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO),
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - Informal
Homeoprotein signaling from plants to brain.
Alain Prochiantz,
Professeur Titulaire,
Chaire des Processus Morphogénétiques Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie,
College de France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling of Benzylic Electrophiles
Alan Cherney,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 19th, 2014
12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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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: Gonzalez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 20th, 2014
3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: La Maternity Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The mean-field limit of Bosons in the Heisenberg picture
Antti Knowles,
Mathematics,
ETH Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Collusion through Communication in Auctions (joint with Leeat Yariv)
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
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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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Functionalization of Si(111) Surfaces and the Formation of Mixed Monolayers for the Covalent Attachment of Molecular Catalysts in Photoelectrochemical Devices
Judith Lattimer,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Neural circuits for sensing directional motion
Andrew Huberman,
Assistant Professor,
University of California, San Diego,