Institute Calendar
May 2013
Monday, May 6th, 2013
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Imaging Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress: Lanthanides to the Rescue
Valerie C. Pierre,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations
Brian Knight,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High redshift starburst galaxies revealed by SPT, ALMA, and gravitational lensing
Joaquin Vieira,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
10:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Fresh Perspective: Learning to Sparsify for Detection in Massive Noisy Sensor Networks
Matthew Faulkner,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Stochastic Choice and Hedging (joint project with Marina Agranov)
Pietro Ortoleva,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers
Leonid Pryadko,
Associate Professor,
University of California, Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Elucidating a New Role of RNA in Co-Translational Protein Targeting
Kuang Shen,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Shan Group,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Mutation, drift and the origin of subcellular features
Michael Lynch,
Distinguished Professor ,
Dept. of Biology,
Indiana University Bloomington ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Charles Lawrence,
NASA JPL,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Oscillatory modes of quarks in baryons for 3 quark flavors - u, d, s
Peter Minkowski,
ITEP, Univ of Bern,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Building a Stratigraphic Column on the Road to Yellowknife Bay, Mars Science Laboratory, Gale Crater, Mars (Katie Stack); Formation of Boxwork Structures on Mount Sharp, Gale Crater, Mars (Kirsten Siebach)
Katie Stack,
Graduate Student,
Geology,
Caltech,
Kirsten Siebach,
Graduate Student,
Geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
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Astronomy Colloquium
Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Chung Pei Ma,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Decentralized Exchange
Marzena Rostek,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Surface ocean impacts on the chemistry of the tropical free troposphere
Rainer Volkamer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
12:00am
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5/10
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition Experiments in a Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel
Jerrod Hofferth,
Aerospace Engineering Department,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
Steve Cole,
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
UCLA School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner,
Research Scientist,
Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group,
JPL,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
12:00am
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5/11
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Localization in N=2* and related models
Alex Buchel,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
EAS,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira,
Professor,
Astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CLARK B. MILLIKAN Lecture in Aerospace
Logarithmic scaling in wall-bound turbulent flows
Alexander Smits,
Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
High-Resolution mm-Wave Pulsed Radar for Imaging and Gesture Detection
Amin Arbabian,
Assistant Professor ,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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General Photography on Campus: Girl Scouts (Dr. Steven Mayo) Party
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