Institute Calendar
October 2012
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
3:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Fellows Seminar: Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices and Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Power Control
Raymond Weitekamp,
Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices,
Masoud Farivar,
Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Reactive Power Control ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Forging together Cognitive and Decision Science Principles to Build Decision Field Theory
Jerome R. Busemeyer,
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Science Program,
Indiana University, Cognitive Science Program,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Accelerating microbial functional genomics
Trent Northen,
Staff Scientist,
Bioenergy/GTL and Structural Biology,
Lawrence Berkeley Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Megafloods in the English Channel: the birth of island Britain
Sanjeev Gupta,
Professor,
Department of Earth Science & Engineering,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Topological Insulators: Opportunities, Materials and Challenges
Kang L. Wang,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
10:00am
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3:00pm
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UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program Interviews
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Theory angle on Integrability
Samson Shastavili,
Trinity College Dublin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Projects and Team Dynamics
George Georgiadis,
Graduate Student,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F Theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects
Raffaele Savelli,
MPI Munich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Low-order Models for Control of Fluids: Balanced Models and Koopman Modes
Clarence W. Rowley,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fay Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cyclic Conjugate Acceptors"
Jeffrey Holder,
"The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cyclic Conjugate Acceptors",
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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8:00pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 27th, 2012
12:00am
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10/28
12:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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Family Photography on Campus: Herrera Photo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Felix Photo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Detoma Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ghadimian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Biglari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
12:00am
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10/29
12:00am
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8:30am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cary Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Zadourian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be Announced
Gaspar Bakos,
Prof.,
Princeton Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies (and how to find them in the SDSS!)
Kenneth Wong,
Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radon and the tracing of geological fluids
Frederic Perrier,
Professor,
University of Paris Diderot,
IPGP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Characterization and Applications of Metal-Metal Bonds in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Complexes
Christine M. Thomas,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Sailing the Waters Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy
Dustin Tingley,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Coding for Distributed Storage
Alex Dimakis,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
USC,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
10:00am
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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
Computational and Sample Tradeoffs via Convex Relaxation
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Assistant Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Information Aggregation in the Field: an Application to Sales Forecasting
Benjamin J. Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding
Kamil Michnicki,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Some Like it Hot: What Observations Can Tell Us About Solar Coronal Heating
Joan Schmelz,
University of Memphis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Torsion-bar Antenna for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection
Ayaka Shoda,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Dr. Paul Dimotakis,
"Progress in atmospheric CO2 concentration vertical-profile estimation methodology, with embedded sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar
Small-molecule Interrogation of Kinase Signaling and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Jack Taunton,
Associate Professor,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: Observations by Cassini UVIS (Joshua Kammer); Aerosols in the Atmosphere of Venus (Peter Gao)
Joshua Kammer,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Peter Gao,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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CubeSat: An Unlikely Success Story
Jordi Puig-Suari,
Professor ,
Professor of PolySat & CubeSat Programs,
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Talk
Introduction to Unconscious Bias
Joan Schmelz,
University of Memphis / Chair, AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy,
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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Planetary System Architectures from Kepler
Daniel Fabrycky,
University of Chicago,