Institute Calendar
April 2013
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
8:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Early Warning, Aftershock Reliability, and Life Cycle of Degrading Structures: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering at Three Scales
Iunio Iervolino,
Associate Professor,
Dipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura,
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Joint Center For Artificial Photosynthesis Seminar
The Possibilities to Analyze IJP Samples by Photoelectron Emission Microscopy (PEEM)
Prof. Christian Pettenkofer,
Helmholtz Center Berlin,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
On a Path to Electric Propulsion Immortality: Magnetic Shielding of Hall-effect Plasma Accelerators
Dr. Ioannis G. Mikellides,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Atomically Thin Photodetectors: The Ideal Semi-Metal vs. The Insurmountable Insulator
Nathaniel Gabor,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
When the Monsoon rocks the Himalaya
Jean-Philippe Avouac,
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology; Director, Tectonics Observatory,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Latest Higgs results from ATLAS: the beginning of a long road
Rustem Ospanov,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Accountability, Authority and Media
Cesar Martinelli,
Professor of Economics,
ITAM (Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico),
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
8:00am
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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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IST Lunch Bunch
Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Pierre Baldi,
Computer Science, School of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of California in Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Subjective Timing of Randomization and Ambiguity
Kota Saito,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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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
Sequential decoding of general quantum communication channels
Mark Wilde,
Louisiana State University,
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. Rick Williams,
Carnegie Observatories,
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
The HIV Vaccine Problem
Michel Nussenzweig,
Sherman Fairchild Professor; Investigator, HHMI,
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
TBD
Nathan Kaib,
Postdoctoral fellow,
Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Structure, dynamics and properties of block polymer dispersions (technical seminar)
Frank Bates,
Regents Professor and Department Head,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
8:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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10:30am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Defense Seminar
Chemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Lindsay Yee,
Graduate Student ,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High-Frequency Deterministic Earthquake Simulation: Recent Efforts, Present Challenges, and Future Opportunities
Ricardo Taborda,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
10:00am
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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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Algebraic aspects of secret sharing and erasure decoding
EE Systems Seminar
Iwan Duursma,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Coordinated Sciences,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Redshift Space Distortions of the Galaxy Distribution
Alex Szalay,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Blooming of oceanic phytoplankton
Amala Mahadevan,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Horowitz Seminar
Cellular mechanics and cell shape change during drosophila gastrulation
Eric Weischaus,
Squibb Professor,
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Ontogenetic Changes in the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation, Exploration and Learning: Insights from the Adolescent Brain
Adriana Galvan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
UCLA, Brain Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A knotty problem: Untangling the molecular mechanics of mRNA recruitment to the eukaryotic ribosome
Jon Lorsch,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now
John Clarke,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Order and disorder in block polymers: mixing business and pleasure (general seminar)
Frank Bates,
Regents Professor and Department Head,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Regenerative Fuel Cells, Energy Storage Systems for Space Applications
Thomas Valdez,
Senior Member of the Engineering Staff,
Fuel Cell Group,
JPL,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Multi-step One-pot Transformations Starting from Terminal Alkynes
Masahiro Murakami,
Kyoto University ,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black hole scattering from monodromy
Alejandra Castro,
Harvard University,
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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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection
Sheldon Campbell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics),
Ohio State University,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Response of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers to Global and Local Distortion
Joanna Austin,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Quadrature by Expansion: A New Method for the Evaluation of Layer Potentials
Leslie Greengard,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dynamical design principles for developmental patterning in live Drosophila embryos
Hernan Garcia,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biophysics Dept. ,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Triphosphine-Iron Catalyzed Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation
Henry Fong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time
Jenann Ismael,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Arizona,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Regenerative Fuel Cells, Energy Storage Systems for Space Applications
Thomas Valdez,
Senior Member of the Engineering Staff,
Fuel Cell Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013
12:00am
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4/14
12:00am
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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