Institute Calendar
January 2012
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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10:30am
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CMA presents "The Federal Budget Impasse: Is There a Way Out?"
Dr. Richard O'Toole,
Manager,
Office of Legislative Affairs,
JPL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be Announced
Riley Duren,
Chief Systems Engineer,
Earth Science & Technology Directorate,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microchannel microreactors as tools for laboratory measurements of reaction kinetics
Dan Hickman,
Dr.,
Engineering and Process Sciences,
The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Still Water: Dead Zone and Collimated Ejecta from the Impact of a Granular Jet
Wendy W. Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Physics and James Frank Institute,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Productivity and Credibility in Industry Equilibrium
Michael Powell,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
God and the 80386: Where the Engineer of the Most Famous CPUs Finds his Motivation
Patrick Gelsinger,
President and Chief Operating Officer,
EMC Corporation,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:15pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
9:00am
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James K. Knowles Lecture & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Materials for the Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity
Richard D. James,
Professor,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices (joint with B. Douglas Bernheim, Colin Camerer, and Antonio Rangel)
Alec Smith,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Microbiology/Biochemistry Seminar
Flavin-based electron bifurcation, a novel mechanism of energy conservation in anaerobes.
Rolf Thauer,
Professor of Microbiology,
Max Planck Institute, Marburg (Germany),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Energy Exchange and Control of Unsteady Lift in Gusting Flows
David Williams,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Illinois Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Activator-Free Oligomerizations and Oxidative Transformations Catalyzed by Palladium Hydroxy-Bridged Dimers
Matthew Winston,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Feynman Diagrams
Adrian Wuthrich,
Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khalili Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:30am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avetisov Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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11:00am
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
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Bioengineering Lecture
Learning to Program Cell Signaling Systems
Wendell Lim,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice
Jonathan Simon,
Dr.,
Physics Department,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Sedimentation in lakes versus the ocean: is salinity a necessary condition for the subaqueous formation of continental shelves?
Gary Parker,
W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology,
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Evidence for Dibosons with Decays to Heavy Quarks: A Validation of Low Mass Higgs Searches at D0
Joe Haley,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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Informal Biology seminar
"Transcriptional regulation of pathogenic IL-5-producing memory Th2 cell function"
Toshinori Nakayama,
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Immonology,
Chiba University, Japan,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian
Amit Singer,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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