Institute Calendar
December 2011
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
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Materials Research Lecture
Engineering the Microstructural Architecture of New Materials Using Freedom, Actuation, and Constraint Topologies (FACT)
Jonathan Hopkins,
Engineering Technologies Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations
Justin Wolfers,
Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy,
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Can Cell Populations Create Spatial Patterning During Organogenesis Using Strain Cues?
Brian Cox,
Teledyne,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
2012 and the End of Days Phenomena
Dr. Don Yeomans,
Manager,
NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office ,
JPL,
Friday, December 9th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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)
2012 and the End of Days Phenomena
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
9:00am
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11:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Untold Facets of an Entrepreneur's Success: Failure, Timing, Dumb Luck & Advice (Good and Bad)
Milton Chang,
Former CEO,
Newport Corporation,
Steve OÂ’Conner,
Founder,
Nanostream and Clinical Micro Sensors,
Roberta Jacobs,
Founding CEO, and Chief Operating Officer,
Cobaltcard from American Express and GreenWare Technologies,
Ari Mir,
Founder and CEO,
Lunch Money,
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chhen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bargegyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fragoso Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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12/11
12:00am
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011
2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
Margaret Wertheim,
science writer,
Monday, December 12th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices
Alec Smith,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
HSS,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Taking Census of Extreme Hearschel-bright Starbursts at High-z
Caitlin Casey,
IfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dynamical functional organization of the human brain
Vinod Menon,
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Neuroscience,
Sanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Numerical modeling of landquakes
Anne Mangeney,
Professor of Geoscience,
University Paris Diderot-PRES Sorbonne Paris Cite ,
Head of the Seismology Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LHC results of Higgs boson searches using 2010 and 2011 data
Harvey Newman,
Caltech,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves Together
Tony Piro,
Tapir,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Inferring Genetic Architecture from “Systems Genetics” Studies
Norbert Perrimon,
Professor,
Genetics,
Harvard Medical School - Broad Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Smart Markets for Hydrological Resources
Robert F. Raffensperger,
Senior Lecturer in Management Science,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:15pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Science in Cyberspace
S. George Djorgovski,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
8:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Cellulase Engineering: Recombinatorial and Predictive Methods
Russell Komor,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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