Institute Calendar
May 2013
Friday, May 10th, 2013
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Magnetic Alignment of High-Aspect Ratio Microwires into Vertical Arrays
Joseph Beardslee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Leverage and Beliefs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Amsterdam Repo Market (joint w/ Hans-Joachim Voth)
Peter Koudijs,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
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)
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner,
Research Scientist,
Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 11th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
Ganpathy Murthy,
Professor,
University of Kentucky,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Is the Genome Useful in Medicine?"
Steve Quake,
Professor of Bioengineering,
Department of Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural substrates of memory
Loren M. Frank,
Associate Professor,
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience Department of Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrinoless double-beta decay and other searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with the Majorana experiment
Reyco Henning,
University of North Carolina,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Organometallic Reactions Mediated by Low-Valent Uranium: Examining the Roles of Alkyl Substituents and Redox-Active Ligands in Fundamental Reactivity
Suzanne C. Bart,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
A Living, Breathing Ocean
William J. Jenkins,
Senior Scientist, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry,
Director NOSAMS,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World's Costliest Cars
Teck-Hua Ho,
William Halford, Jr. Family Chair in Marketing,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Morphological Reduction of Neurons
Steven Cox,
Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Rice University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
The Myth of Economies of Scale: The Vendor Business Model
Janet Campagna,
Chief Executive Officer,
QS Investors, LLC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Is there life beyond Quantum Mechanics?
Anton Kapustin,
Professor,
Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
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. Davy Kirkpatrick,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Advances in combustion and aerospace propulsion applications
Sebastien Candel,
Professor,
Ecole Centrale Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
GATA foctor regulation of HSC homeostasis and T cell development
Doug Engel,
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair,
Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Oceanography of Icy Worlds
Steve Vance,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Planetary Chemistry and Astrobiology,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMA Presents "Is There an Asteroid in Your Future?"
Chris Lewicki,
President and Chief Engineer,
Planetary Resources,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Poverty and Self-Control
B. Douglas Bernheim,
Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in Economics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Warming Yardstick: What Warming Oceans and Rising Seas Tell Us about Anthropogenic Climate Change
Josh Willis,
Project Scientist - Jason-3,
Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Sciences,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Progress and Challenges in Liquid Rocket Combustion Stability
Venke Sankaran,
Senior Scientist/ST,
AFRL/RQ, Edwards AFB,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Mechanism of an ATP-Independent Disaggregase
Thang Nguyen,
Grad Student, Shan Group,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Developing Peptide Based Capture Agents for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Arundhati Nag,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Heath Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Synthesis and Biological Activity of Anticoagulant Heparan Sulfate Glycopolymers
Young In Oh,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar
The Beginning of Life and the End of Solar Systems
Dave Spiegel,
Institute for Advanced Study,