Institute Calendar
May 2015
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
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Materials Research Lecture
Predicting Materials for Energy from First Principles
Giulia Galli,
Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering,
The Institute for Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Structure, Function, and Inhibition of Bacterial Cell Walls and Biofilms: Lessons from Small Molecules and a Big Magnet
Lynette Cegelski,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Cell Dynamics Imaged at High Resolution
Tomas Kirchhausen,
Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Pediatrics,
Departments of Cell Biology and Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
DNA-Mediated Charge Transport Devices for Protein Detection
Ariel Furst,
Graduate Student, Barton group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Tackling the engineering challenges of Hyperloop – Turning Concept Into Reality
Brogan BamBrogan,
CEO (Interim), CTO & Co-Founder,
Hyerloop Technologies, Inc.,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Diketopiperazine-Containing Natural Products: (–)-lansai B, (+)-nocardioazines A and B, and (–)-acetylapoaranotin
Haoxuan Wang,
Graduate Student, Reisman group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors and the Design of Bifunctional Conjugates
Alyson Weidmann,
Graduate Student, Barton group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics
Dan Benjamin, Visiting Associate Professor (Research) of Economics, CESR, USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport at boundaries on a microscopic scale
Rob G.H. Lammertink,
Professor,
Soft Matter Fluidics and Interfaces, Mesa+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
Alan Guth,
Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
MIT,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 29th, 2015
8:00am
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9:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
PROGRESS TOWARD THE TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF CURCUSONE C AND MECHANISTIC ELUCIDATION OF AN UNEXPECTED REARRANGEMENT
Chung Whan Lee,
Graduate Student, Stoltz group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Sensing and actuation from biology to electronics
Alex Pai,
Electrical Engineering graduate student,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Replica-symmetry-breaking instantons in glassy systems
Sho Yaida,
Duke University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Dynamics for the random-cluster model
Alistair Sinclair,
Professor,
EECS,
UC Berkeley/Simons Institute,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics
Donal O'Connell,
University of Edinburgh,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neural Prosthetics and Parietal Cortex
Boris Revechkis,
CNS graduate student,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Multifunctional Materials: Bottom-up & Top-down
Raymond Weitekamp,
Graduate Student, Grubbs group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A New Framework for the Interpretation of Modulated Martensites in Shape Memory Alloys
Ryan Elliot,
Associate Professor, Russell J. Penrose Faculty Fellow,
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Tian Yang,
Szego Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain
Marius Lemm,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Graphene as a 2-D Photoelectrochemical Protective Layer
Adam Nielander,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Coding with Finite Resources
Mario Berta,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Early Enlightenment Monks? Philosophy, History, Law and Theology in German and Austrian Benedictine Monasteries after 1700
Thomas Wallnig,
Institute of History, University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
A theory of multineuronal dimensionality, dynamics and measurement
Surya Ganguli, Assistant Professor, Departments of Applied Physics, Neurobiology and Electrical Engineering, Stanford,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Nestor Guillen,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics & Statistics,
U of Mass. Amherst,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain
Nestor Guillen,
U Mass Amherst,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bronner & Kadimyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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12:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Erkin Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vartarians Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
3:00pm
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7:30pm
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Graduation Photography on Campus: Castillo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography