Institute Calendar
October 2014
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biogenic reactive oxygen species in the cycling and mineralization of manganese
Colleen Hansel,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Project for Effective Teaching Seminar - Prof. Steven Frautschi
Teaching Phys 1 and Other Courses at Caltech
Steven Frautschi,
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 16th, 2014
11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Multi-phase Rarefied Plumes into Space: Examples of Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Io and Saturn's Moon Enceladus
David Goldstein,
Professor,
University of Texas at Austin,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Patterned DNA Arrays: Towards Clinical Diagnostics
Ariel Furst,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Tits buildings, class groups, and the high-dimensional cohomology of SLnOK
Tom Church,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence
Peter Burton,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcriptional fidelity control, DNA modification and lesion recognition
Dong Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Lecture in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution
Christos H. Papadimitriou,
C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Advances on base change, symmetric powers and tensor product functoriality
Luis Dieulefait,
Professor Agregat,
Departament d'Àlgebra i Geometria,
University of Barcelona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Journey to the Center of the Earth
David J. Stevenson,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chan Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Friday, October 17th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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TAPIR Seminar
Too-big-to-fail in the Local Group: A Challenge for LCDM
Shea Garrison-Kimmel,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Cosmology,
U.C. Irvine,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Living Fluids: Modeling and Simulation of Active Suspensions
David Saintillan,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The moduli space of S1-type zero loci for Z2-harmonic spinors in dimension 3
Ryosuke Takahashi,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
N2 Fixation to NH3 by a 2-Coordinate Fe(0) Species
Gaël Ung,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
How Did the Humanists Define Antiquity? Historical Periodization and the Origins of Classical Scholarship
Frederic Clark,
Postdoctoral Instructor,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
MIT,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 18th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kharazian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Toste/Mirzian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:40pm
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4:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nario Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 20th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Linear Genetics: (the Linear Algebra of) Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies
Professor Lior Pachter,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California at Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Towards a comprehensive seismic Earth model
Andreas Fichtner,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Seismology,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Real Data Science @ NASA
Chris Mattmann,
Chief Architect,
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Extreme Outflows and the Gas Around Galaxies
Dr. Aleks Diamond-Stanic,
Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Stochastic and Deterministic Processes for Patterning the Drosophila Visual System
Claude Desplan,
Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Political Competition in Legislative Elections
Mattias Polborn,
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Ginzburg-Landau equations with self-generated magnetic field
Christian Hainzl,
Dr.,
Mathematics,
University of Tuebingen,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Preludes to a Theory and Phenomenology of Galactic Winds
Todd Thompson,
Ohio State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Government Interventions in a Dynamic Market with Adverse Selection (with Andy Skrzypacz)
William Fuchs,
Assistant Professor,
Berkeley-Haas Finance Group, Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-scale Observational Constraints on GPP in Earth System Models using Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide
Elliott Campbell,
Associate Professor,
Department of Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Merced,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
PandaX: A dark matter experiment at China JinPing Underground Lab
Xiangdong Ji,
University of Maryland/Shanghai Jian Tong University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Complexify Biomimetics
Filipe Natalio,
Group Leader of Bioinorganic & Biomimetic Chemistry,
Chemie, Physik und Mathematik,
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Rethinking Asymmetric Synthesis: The Development of General Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions that Enable the Use of Optically Active Nucleophiles
Mark R. Biscoe,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The City College of New York,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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