Institute Calendar
January 2013
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
[Cancelled] Planetary-Scale Batteries: The Electrochemical Series at High Pressures and Temperatures
Abby Kavner,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Strategic Learning and the Topology of Social Networks (Joint work with Elchanan Mossel and Allan Sly)
Omer Tamuz,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Weizmann Institute, Israel,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Locomotion of Microorganisms in Complex Fluids
Roberto Zenit,
Professor,
Departmento de Mecánica de Materiales y Reologia,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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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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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Foam structure and rheology: the shape and feel of random soap froth
Andrew M. Kraynik,
Sandia National Laboratories (retired),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Variability in longevity and the origins of individuality
Zachary Pincus,
Postdoctotal Fellow ,
Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sean Loyd,
Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Do bacteria play tit-for-tat? Dynamics of a public good in bacterial micro-colony.
David Bensimon,
ENS, Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Optimal Stopping with Private Information (joint work with Thomas Kruse)
Phillip Strack,
Ph.D Candidate in Mathematics and Economics,
Bonn Graduate School of Economics,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:20pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, January 25th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Some Experiments on Nonlinear Waves in Solids
Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar,
Temple Foundation Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
University of Texas at Austin,
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program Interviews
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter
Shamik Banerjee,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Strong-Field Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity
Nicolas Yunes,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
Montana State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Optimisation and Learning for Artificial Swimmers
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Ether Carbon-Oxygen Bond Activation by Group 9 and 10 Transition Metals"
Guy Edouard,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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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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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 26th, 2013
12:00am
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1/27
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vazquez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davidian / Safarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 27th, 2013
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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