Institute Calendar
April 2014
Monday, April 21st, 2014
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Influence of Symmetry on Quantum Hall States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene
Ben Feldman,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
General Biology Seminar
Integration of neurons into brain circuits and the cellular bases of complex behavior
Carlos Lois,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Neurobiology,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Synthesis of Organic Compounds in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Environments
Jeffrey S. Seewald,
Department Chair, Senior Scientist,
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry ,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Non-commutative strict higher C*-categories
Paolo Bertozzini,
Mathematics,
Thammasat University,
4:15pm
–
5:15pm
Add to Cal
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Statistical Learning and Optimization Based on Comparative Judgements
Robert Nowak,
McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Tea Talk
Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies
Karin Sandstrom,
Arizona,
4:30pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
10:30am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Fred Farina,
Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director,
Office of Technology Transfer,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Three Dimensional Milky Way Galaxy
Dr. Bob Benjamin,
Univ. of Wisconsin - Whitewater,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
General Biology Seminar
The Genesis and Pathogenesis of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
Michael Worobey,
Professor,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Investigations of Strange, Linear Features on Mars (AKA playing with dry ice blocks in the Utah desert)
Serina Diniega,
Systems Engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Metabolic engineering: synthetic chemistry of the 21st century (general lecture)
Gregory Stephanopoulos,
W.H. Dow Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
Logic Seminar
Random partitions and weak containment of the Bernoulli shift (after Abert and Weiss)
Peter Burton,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium
Y Dwarfs and the Field Substellar Mass Function
Davy Kirkpatrick,
IPAC/Clatech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A metabolic tree of life: from geochemical roots to oceanic ecosystems
Rogier Braakman,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Linking cancer and metabolism via isotope labeling and network analysis
Gregory Stephanopoulos,
W.H. Dow Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
12:00am
–
12:00am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials
Ronaldo Borja,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geological & Environmental Sciences,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
CMA presents "Where Technology and Bush Medicine Collide: The Phil Simon Tanzania Project"
Kimberly Shriner,
M.D., founder and director,
the Phil Simon Clinic Tanzania Project (PSCTP),
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Bray Theory Workshop
Gossip, Centrality, and Diffusion in Social Networks
Matthew Jackson,
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Chemical Physics Seminar
A Quiet Revolution in Optical Microscopy
Steven Chu,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate ,
Physics Department,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geology Club Seminar
Crustal thickening and the long term evolution of arc magmatic systems
Leif Karlstrom,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Number Theory Seminar
Albanese quotients of Picard modular surfaces, and rational points
Mladen Dimitrov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University Lille 1,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Research Conference
Cosmic clues for dark matter
Kathryn Zurek,
Associate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, April 25th, 2014
12:00am
–
12:00am
Add to Cal
8:00am
–
4/26
12:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
11:30am
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
Update after AMS: implications on Dark Matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources
Ilias Cholis,
Research Associate,
Astrophysics,
FNAL,
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Distinguishing topologically and smoothly doubly slice knots
Jeffrey Meier,
Mathematics,
University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Theory and Experiments are Strongly Connected in Nonlinear Mechanics
Davide Bigoni,
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics,
Civil, Environmental & Mechanical Engineering,
University of Trento, Italy,
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geometry and Topology Seminar
A diagrammatic categorification of a Clifford algebra via contact topology
Yin Tian,
Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture
Mass spectrometry: from noble gases to membrane motors
Carol Robinson,
Professor Dame,
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science History Seminar
Conformity and the Certificate of Discharge: Bankruptcy in Early Modern England
Ann M. Carlos,
Professor and Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences,
Department of Economics,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
5:40pm
–
6:40pm
Add to Cal
Wedding Photography on Campus: Kimble Family Photo
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
–
7:30pm
Add to Cal
Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Mars with Curiosity: Mapping, Trekking, Discovery
John P. Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal