Institute Calendar
May 2012
Ongoing
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5/18
5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Microstrip Reflectarrays for Large-Aperture Interferometric Radars
Sembiam Rengarajan,
CSU Northridge/JPL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event
A Perfect Storm of Opportunity
Bill Gross,
Chief Executive Officer,
Idealab,
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
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Graphene Mechanical Resonators and Applications
Changyao Chen,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Digitally enhanced interferometry
Danielle Wucenich,
ANU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Evolution of RNA viruses in changing environments
Paul Turner,
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Modeling Exotic Clouds In Cool Brown Dwarfs and Planets
Caroline Morley,
Graduate Student,
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz,
5:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
8:00am
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5/8
5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Formation of Rocky Planets, including a few remarkable results from WISE
Ben Zuckerman,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Fighting Dengue in the Mosquito
Kelly Matzen,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiple constraints on net community production and its regulating factors in the Southern Ocean
Nicolas Cassar,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Ocean Sciences,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Surface Engineering in Nano-Fabrication, Catalysis, and Energy Conversion
Sundeep Mukherjee,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA Dawn Mission,
JPL/Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seedbanks as Biodiversity Reserves: Not Your Typical Public Storage
Kaitlyn Lucey,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
Mark A. Changizi,
Director of Human Cognition,
2AI Labs,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Error in Constitutive Equations Approach for Materials Identification
Wilkins Aquino,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter?
Jason Alicea,
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green,
Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
9:00am
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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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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Aeroelastic Tailoring using Variable Stiffness Approaches
Paolo Ermanni,
Professor,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables
Christopher Rogan,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis and Polymerization Behavior of Asymmetric Group IV Phenoxide(pyridine)anilide Complexes
Rachel Klet,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History of Science and the Historiography of Astrology
Steven Vanden Broecke,
University of Ghent,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karamian Wedding Party
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