Institute Calendar
April 2014
Saturday, April 26th, 2014
Saturday, April 26th, 2014
12:00am
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4/27
12:00am
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4/27
12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Caltech Physics Photo
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Rudie Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lopez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, April 27th, 2014
12:00am
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4/28
12:00am
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tateossian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
"Green kernels for Schrödinger equations"
Ari Laptev,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Imperial College London,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis Using Chelating Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts
Myles Herbert,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Incidences, Polynomial Partitioning, and Hilbert Polynomials
Adam Sheffer,
Tel Aviv University,
Mathematics,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Phase transitions and Majorana bound states in engineered topological superconductors
Aaron Finck,
Postdoc,
UIUC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
The Organization of the Labor Market with Communication and Cognitive Skills
Aloysius Siow,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Strongly-Interacting Supersymmetry: Theoretical Motivations and Phenomenology
Lauren Pearce,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Coordination Chemistry of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Jonathan S. Owen,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture
The Origin of the Earth and Moon
Sarah T. Stewart,
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
"Sorting and Maintaining Haploid Stem Cells using a Beckman Coulter MoFlo Legacy and a Bio-Rad S3 by Light Scatter"
Andy Riddell,
Flow Cytometry Core Facility, Director,
Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Self-Assembly of Brush Polymers
Benjamin Sveinbjornsson,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The orbits of the Earth and Planets and Their Relation to the Celestial Reference Frame
Bill Folkner,
JPL,
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
TBA
Dr. Stella Ofner,
Yale Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
What Color are Atmospheric Aerosols? Development of a Novel UV-Vis Aerosol Absorption Spectrophotometer
Geoffrey D. Smith,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Molecular pathology in repeat expansion diseases
David Housman,
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor,
Dept. of Biology,
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
James Day,
Assistant Professor,
Geoscience research division,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
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,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Studies of the Serotonin Type 3A Receptor and the Chemical Preparation of tRNA
Noah Duffy,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Direct Simulation of Quantum Dynamics in Complex Systems
Artur Menzeleev,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
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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Analysis Seminar
Universality and regularity of the integration operator
Vassilis Nestoridis,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Athens,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Resale-Driven Winner's Curse
Charles Z. Zheng,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Western Ontario,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity
Jochen Braun,
Professor of Cognitive Biology,
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, German,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insight to the past and future of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation from Plio-Pleistocene nutrient dynamics
Patrick Rafter,
Assistant Project Scientist,
Department of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
In situ metrologies for characterization of advanced batteries
Jason Graetz,
HRL Laboratories, LLC,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Cars and Civilization
Jesse H. Ausubel, Rockefeller University; Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Vienna University of Technology and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
5:30pm
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6:45pm
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Everhart Lecture
Investigating our Cosmic Origins: THz Spectroscopy and Observational Probes of Prebiotic Interstellar Gas and Ice Chemistry
Brett McGuire,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,