Institute Calendar
January 2011
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Morphodynamics
Eric Mjolsness,
Professor,
Department of Information and Computer Science and Department of Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Targeting Tissue Stem Cells for Epithelial Cancer
Owen Witte,
David Geffen School of Medicine,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Francis Nimmo,
associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Metric Structures on Datasets: Stability and Classification of Algorithms
Facundo Memoli,
postdoctoral fellow computational topology,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
The Certified Reduced Basis Method for High-Fidelity Simulation in Many Query and Real-Time Applications
David Knezevic,
postdoctoral associate in mechanical engineering,
MIT,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Non-Intersecting Paths with a Staircase Initial Condition
Maurice Duits,
Olga Taussky - John Todd Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
The Energetics and Potential Implications of Iceberg Calving
Jason Amundson,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysical sciences,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens
Emily P. Balskus,
research fellow in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environmental Justice: Historical Perspectives and Policy Challenges
Jennifer Walker,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics
David Weitz,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Coevolution of Earth Systems: Insights from Quantitative Analyses of the Rock Record
Shanan Peters,
assistant professor of geoscience,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Mottness and Holography: Strange Metal from UV-IR Mixing
Philip W. Phillips,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture
The Structural Basis of Decoding by the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan,
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
An Endowment Effect for Risk: Experimental Tests of Stochastic Reference Points
Charles Sprenger,
University of California, San Diego,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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6:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Discrete R Symmetries and Low Energy Supersymmetry
Michael Dine,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Clearing Supply and Demand under Bilateral Constraints (joint with O. Bochet, R. Ilkilic, and H. Moulin)
Jay Sethuraman,
associate professor of industrial engineering and operations,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Computational Experiments in Fluid-Structure Interaction of Thin Fabrics for Planetary Atmospheric Entry and Descent
Carlos Pantano,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Late Transition Metal Complexes Bearing Electron-Withdrawing Lambda-4 Sulfur Donors
Daniel L. Suess,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
8:00am
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6:30pm
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8:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
New Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Digital Entertainment: The UltraViolet Approach
9:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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2:15pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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