Institute Calendar
November 2011
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Thinking: Fast and Slow
Dr. Daniel Kahneman,
psychologist,
Princeton University,
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kourinian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 7th, 2011
9:00am
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9:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Astrophysically Motivated Bulge Disk Decompositions in SDSS
Claire Lackner,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification and Inference in Ascending Auctions with Correlated Private Values
Amit Gandhi,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From the Cambrian to the sushi bar: TRPA1 and the evolution of thermal and chemical detection
Paul Garrity,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Shapiro Science Center ,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Approaches to Reconstructing Holocene sea levels
Alexander Simms,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Earth Sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Synthesis, Reactivity and Bonding in Uranium(IV-VI) Mono- and Bis-imido Complexes
James M. Boncella,
Technical Staff Member,
Materials Physics and Applications Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Convex Geometry of Linear Inverse Problems
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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9:15pm
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10:15pm
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
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
Toward a Computational Information Theory
Michelle Effros,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Extra-Solar Planets via Bayesian Model Fitting"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linus Pauling Lectureship
Post-Transcriptional Control of Inflammatory Genes
David Baltimore,
President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor,
Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms (Co-author: Daron Acemoglu)
Matthew Jackson,
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Seminar
Benefits and Strategies for Science Outreach in Our Local Public Schools
James Maloney,
Coordinator,
Caltech Classroom Connection,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Characterizing Extrasolar Parents and Their Children
Kaspar von Braun,
IPAC,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium-NOTE EVENT, TIME & LOCATION CHANGES
Process Development Studies Towards BMS-690514: A Dual HER/VEGFR Inhibitor
David A. Conlon,
PhD,
Bristol-Myers Squibb,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium-NOTE EVENT, TIME & LOCATION CHANGES
Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC): Construction of Architecturally Complex Natural and Unnatural Products
Amos B. Smith, III,
professor of chemistry,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ultracompact white dwarf binaries; a fresh look
Paul Groot,
Radboud University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Remote sensing of African smallholder farmers and their environment: Impacts of agricultural subsidies and climate adaptation
Gillian Galford,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Woods Hole Research Center,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Rational Control of Aspiration in Learning
Paul R. Schrater,
Associate Professor,
Departments of Psychology & Computer Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric aerosols: at the interface between chemistry and climate
V. Faye McNeill,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Energy and Momentum Transfer via Electromagnetic Fluctuations
Arvind Narayanaswamy,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Experimental identification and manipulation of topological insulators
David Hsieh,
MIT,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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