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Monday, April 21st, 2014
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Recent BICEP-2 results
Grant Teply, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Non-commutative strict higher C*-categories
Paolo Bertozzini, Mathematics, Thammasat University,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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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
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies
Karin Sandstrom, Arizona,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Topic to be announced.
Fred Farina, Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

TBD
Debbie Leung, Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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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,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
2:00pm 3:30pm
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Logic Seminar

Random partitions and weak containment of the Bernoulli shift (after Abert and Weiss)
Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Y Dwarfs and the Field Substellar Mass Function
Davy Kirkpatrick, IPAC/Clatech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
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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
11:00am 12:00pm
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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
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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),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Gossip, Centrality, and Diffusion in Social Networks
Matthew Jackson, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
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Geology Club Seminar

Crustal thickening and the long term evolution of arc magmatic systems
Leif Karlstrom, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Albanese quotients of Picard modular surfaces, and rational points
Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Mathematics, University Lille 1,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Cosmic clues for dark matter
Kathryn Zurek, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

TBD
Guilherme Pimentel, Princeton University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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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
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Distinguishing topologically and smoothly doubly slice knots

Jeffrey Meier, Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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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
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

A diagrammatic categorification of a Clifford algebra via contact topology
Yin Tian, Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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
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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
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kimble Family Photo

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm 7:30pm
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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
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German Film

Kirschblüten/Cherry Blossoms – Hanami (2008)