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Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
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Mathematics Colloquium
Introduction to categorification
Mikhail Khovanov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Snapshots of Transcription Initiation by Cryo-EM
Hans Olof Elmlund,
Dr.,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the functional analysis of quantum variables
Edward Effros,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Next: Breakthrough Technologies for National Security
Arati Prabhakar,
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Every action of a non-amenable group is the factor of a small action
Brandon Seward,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contractual Chains and Modes of Contractual Linkages
Joel Watson,
Professor of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The physiological consequences of altering stomatal developent in plants -- lessons from Arabidopsis
Graham Dow,
NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Mimicry of Polypeptide Recognition Surfaces with Foldamers
Samuel H. Gellman,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lemus Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Aseismic Slip and Seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Stimulation of Geological Faults
Frederic Cappa,
Associate Professor,
Geoazur Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory,
University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis,
12:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Bio-manufacturing of chemicals and materials
Sang Yup Lee,
Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
How Multiple Forms of Learning Guide Decisions
Daphna Shohamy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
!! RESCHEDULED !! This talk has been rescheduled for May 29
Heather Pinkett,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Seminar
A Skilful Speaker and Agitator of the Communist Intellectual Type': How Jacob Bronowski's Wartime Security Service (MI5) File Overshadowed His Career
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Heegner cycles and p-adic L-functions
Francesc Castella,
Dr.,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Controlling superconductivity with light
Alessandra Lanzara,
Professor of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Quantitatively understanding the impacts of airborne particles on clouds, storms and climate
Athanasios Nenes,
Professor and Georgia Power Faculty Scholar,
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Insitute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2014
9:00am
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3:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Rhodium and Iridium Analogues of the Shilov Cycle for Methane Functionalization and the Reductive Oxoactivation Mechanistic Motif for Alkane Oxidation
Ross Fu,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unitarity and crossing symmetry in the S Matrix of large N Chern Simons theory with fundamental matter
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Art of Optimizing via Simulations: Empirical Dynamic Programming
Rahul Jain,
Associate Professor, Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters
Michael Fall,
Astronomer w/tenure,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Scanning Probe Studies of Thin Films
Joey Varghese,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Categorification at a prime root of unity
Mikhail Khovanov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Paco A. Lagerstrom Lecture
The Interplay of the Concrete and General: from Mathematics to the Brain
Athanassios S. Fokas,
Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Heegaard Floer theory and L-space knots
Faramarz Vafaee,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Tungsten Photosensitizers
Wesley Sattler,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Anna & Arthur Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 10th, 2014
12:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: De Francesco Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:50pm
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4:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 11th, 2014
3:30pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2014
8:00am
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9:00am
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9:01am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Cell-Targeted Regulation of Gene Expression Through Synthetic RNA Devices
James Vowles,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Smolke group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Measuring Fraud in Aid
Jean Ensminger,
Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Reaction of Glucose by Framework and Extraframework Tin Sites in Zeolite Beta
Ricardo Bermejo-Deval,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar
Talking Sex in Early Modern England: Or, What Do Words Tell Us About the History of Sexuality?
Valerie Traub,
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Cancelled
Nicole Rust,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Manipulating single electrons in silicon for quantum computing
Michael Lilly,
Scientist,
The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),
Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Has global warming stopped? How, why now and for how long?
Ka-Kit Tung,
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Adjunct Professor in Atmospheric Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Techniques for difficult LHC signatures
Matthew Buckley,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Harnessing Metal-Metal Bonds: Bonding, Electronic Properties and Small-Molecule Reactivity
Connie C. Lu,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
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IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Michelle Effros,
George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Michelle Effros,
George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,