Institute Calendar
May 2013
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
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Thesis Seminar
"Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions"
Jonathan Sternberg,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization
Ranga- Ram Chary,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games
Johannes Horner,
Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
John R. Taylor,
University Lecturer,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Materials Research Seminar
Novel Materials, Computational Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics
Marco Bernardi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:30am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Earth-Abundant Materials for Solar Hydrogen Generation
James Robert McKone,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lewis Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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
Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion
Jonathan Malen,
Assitant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Defense.
"Beyond Watson and Crick: programming the self-assembly and reconfiguration of DNA nanostructures based on stacking interactions"
Sungwook Woo,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Folding under pressure: mechanical forces in development of native and engineered tissues
Celeste Nelson,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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CMS Seminar
Big Data, Deep Data, and the Effect of System Architectures on Performance
Peter M. Kogge McCourtney,
Professor of CSE,
Univ. of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 24th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards a holographic formulation of Cosmology
Gonzalo Torroba,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special JCAP Seminar
A Versatile Materials Platform from New Functional Epoxide Polymerizations
Nathaniel A. Lind,
Materials Research Laboratory,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Individual Preferences for Privacy
Rachel Cummings,
Northwestern University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
The Intramolecular Buchner Reaction of α-Diazo-β-Ketonitriles: Development and Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Salvileucalin B
Roger Rauhauser Nani,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Reisman Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets
Leslie Rogers,
Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Is the Sky Falling?
James Cutler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Catalysis for Expanded Reactivity in Z-Selective Metathesis
Brendan Quigley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special Seminar
Science and Human Values
Prof. G.V. Venkataraman,
Physicist, Retired; Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,
Saturday, May 25th, 2013
11:30am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Bike Lab -- Bike Ride to Angel City Brewery / Food Truck Party on Sat May 25
See event detail for location
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dawson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kiledjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Morataya Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Duong Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Torousian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Srabian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kivork Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Movsessian Wedding Party
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:20pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tahmasian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 27th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Viscosity Response due to Torsion and the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence
Taylor Hughes,
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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