Institute Calendar
May 2012
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Being the Change: Can we learn from nature before it is too late?
Eugene Tssui,
Dr.,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:00pm
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Günther Hasinger,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Spacecraft Parachutes
Tayfun Tezduyar,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Novel Approaches to Cleavage of Lignin-Related C-O Bonds
Alexey Fedorov,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson,
Professor of History,
Western Michigan University,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Design of an optomechanical accelerometer
Alex Krause,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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5/26
3:00am
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Saturday, May 26th, 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: Matthewsian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Apelian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Flament Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 27th, 2012
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, May 28th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event
Community Participation in Disaster Management Through Information Technology
K. Mani Chandy,
Simon Ramo Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Applications of Coding in Network Communications
Christopher SungWook Chang,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum control of diamond defects for quantum information and bio-imaging
Peter Maurer,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
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
"Galaxy Evolution at Large N and Low SNR"
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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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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Astronomy Tea Talk
From Stardust to Planetesimals
Paola Pinilla,
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Ugly, the Soft, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle Self-Assembly
Angelo Cacciuto,
Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The genetics and mechanics of cell shape determination
Maria Leptin,
Professor and Director,
EMBO - European Molecular Biology Organization,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship
Alexander Hirsch,
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Radiative-transfer Modeling of Supernova Spectra and Light Curves. Application to Massive-star Explosions.
Luc Dessart,
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reputational Bargaining and Asymmetric Information
David Pearce,
Professor of Economics,
New York 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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Thursday, May 31st, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Electrospun nanofibrous protein-polymer scaffolds for the promotion of scar-free corneal wound healing
Amy Fu,
PhD candidate, Kornfield Group,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Virtual Earthquake Engineering Laboratory (VEEL) in the era of parallel computers
In Ho Cho,
Willis Research Fellow,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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