Institute Calendar
April 2013
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
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Algebraic aspects of secret sharing and erasure decoding
EE Systems Seminar
Iwan Duursma,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Coordinated Sciences,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Redshift Space Distortions of the Galaxy Distribution
Alex Szalay,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Blooming of oceanic phytoplankton
Amala Mahadevan,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Horowitz Seminar
Cellular mechanics and cell shape change during drosophila gastrulation
Eric Weischaus,
Squibb Professor,
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Ontogenetic Changes in the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation, Exploration and Learning: Insights from the Adolescent Brain
Adriana Galvan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
UCLA, Brain Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A knotty problem: Untangling the molecular mechanics of mRNA recruitment to the eukaryotic ribosome
Jon Lorsch,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now
John Clarke,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Order and disorder in block polymers: mixing business and pleasure (general seminar)
Frank Bates,
Regents Professor and Department Head,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Regenerative Fuel Cells, Energy Storage Systems for Space Applications
Thomas Valdez,
Senior Member of the Engineering Staff,
Fuel Cell Group,
JPL,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
10:00am
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Multi-step One-pot Transformations Starting from Terminal Alkynes
Masahiro Murakami,
Kyoto University ,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black hole scattering from monodromy
Alejandra Castro,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection
Sheldon Campbell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics),
Ohio State University,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Response of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers to Global and Local Distortion
Joanna Austin,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Quadrature by Expansion: A New Method for the Evaluation of Layer Potentials
Leslie Greengard,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dynamical design principles for developmental patterning in live Drosophila embryos
Hernan Garcia,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biophysics Dept. ,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Triphosphine-Iron Catalyzed Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation
Henry Fong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
What Entanglement Might be Telling US: Quantum Mechanics, Individuation, and Space-Time
Jenann Ismael,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Arizona,
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)
Regenerative Fuel Cells, Energy Storage Systems for Space Applications
Thomas Valdez,
Senior Member of the Engineering Staff,
Fuel Cell Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013
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4/14
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balasanyan, Baburov Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, April 15th, 2013
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake Engineering Systems: Where it all Begins
Ting Lin,
Postdoctoral Fellow ,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
The Right Kind of Crazy: Risk, Reason, and the Physics of Landing
Adam D. Steltzner,
Manager of the Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing and the Small Body Access Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Chemical Probes to Study Fucosylated Glycans
Chithra Krishnamurthy,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Explaining a cell's evolutionary trade-offs in terms of proteome physical chemistry
Ken Dill,
Professor of Physics and Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Imaging neural ensembles during learning
Takaki Komiyama,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology/Neurosciences,
University California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation
David Weld,
Assistant Professor,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The lunar core dynamo
Benjamin P. Weiss,
Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ,
MIT,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Evidence for and Obstructions to Partially Massless Gravity
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Perimeter Institute,