Institute Calendar
February 2014
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Saturday, February 1st, 2014
12:00am
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2/2
12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Markham Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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2/28
5:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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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, February 2nd, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
From "Order By Disorder" to Emergent Electrodynamics in Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore Magnets
Kate Ross,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
NIST/Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Systematic Analysis of Speed, Direction, and Signaling in Chemotaxis
Sean Collins,
Postdoctoral Fellow ,
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Microstructure Based Laser-Driven Particle Accelerators
Joel England,
SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Event
MTI Presentation: Playing with Fire: Lava, Politics and the Circulation of Vesuvian Minerals in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
John Brewer,
Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences; Professor of History and Literature,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wildfires, debris flows, and the mechanics of bedrock landscapes
Michael P. Lamb,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Nonlinear Waves from Beaches to Photonics
Mark Ablowitz,
Applied Mathematics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Measurement of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with Bolocam
Jack Sayers,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
10:00am
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4:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics-Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Watching dynamics: from patchy colloids to nanoscale biomolecules
Qian Chen,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Device engineering with quantum and/or artificial materials
Yuki Sato,
Rowland Junior Fellow,
The Rowland Institute,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools and Tactics to Study the Role of Metal-Associated Misfolded Proteins in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mi Hee Lim,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Kepler-93b: The Most Precisely Measured Radius Outside the Solar System
Sarah Ballard,
NASA Carl Sagan Fellow,
Astronomy,
University of Washington,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
8:00am
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2/11
5:00pm
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10:00am
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2/6
4:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Novartis Symposium
Sympathy for the Devil: Taking IAP Antagonists from Research to the Clinic
Christopher S. Straub,
Ph.D.,
Novartis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Instability of Astrophysics Witnessed in the Twentieth Century
Martin Harwit,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics of global warming
Shang-Ping Xie,
Professor,
Department of Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Novartis Symposium
Recent Advances in Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization
Melanie S. Sanford,
Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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CPET Seminar
The Art of Scientific Presentations
Armand Tanguay,
Professor of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Physics, and Astronomy,
Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Center (an NSF Engineering Research Center); Center for Vision Science and Technology; Center for Neural Engineering; Center for Photonic Technology; Signal and Image Processing Institute,
University of Southern California,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, February 6th, 2014
10:00am
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2/7
4:00pm
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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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General Biology Seminar
Engineering Synthetic Biomarkers: mass-encoded nano systems for urinary monitoring of disease
Gabriel Kwong,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science,
MIT,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Dielectric Metamaterials Go Optical
Jason Valentine,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Vanderbilt,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Enhancing the Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors: Structure-Function Reactivity and Conjugate Design
Alyson Weidmann,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,