Institute Calendar
March 2014
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies: The Nexus of Dark Matter and Chemical Evolution
Evan Kirby,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Computational Heuristics in Planning
Quentin Huys,
University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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EE Special Seminar
Lossy Data Compression: Non-asymptotic Fundamental Limits
Victoria Kostina,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
North Atlantic jet variability and Arctic warming
Elizabeth A. Barnes,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Science,
Colorado State University ,
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Non-Commutative Geometry, Non-Associative Geometry and the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Shane Farnsworth,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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Special CCE Seminar
Natural Product Synthesis: A Platform for Discovery in Chemistry and Biology
Sarah E. Reisman,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, March 6th, 2014
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Structural Biology Seminar
Structural Studies of Eukaryotic Ribosomes and Functional Insights
Nanad Ban,
Professor of Molecular Membrane Biology,
Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics,
ETH Zurich,
10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Dynamic Loads for Liquid-Fueled Rocket Nozzle Design
Mary Baker,
President, Technical Director,
ATA Engineering Inc.,
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Single Cell Image Sequencing of Alternative Promoter Choice in the Protocadherin Gene Cluster
Sheel Shah,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Perfluorophenyl Azides: New Reactions and Applications in Materials Chemistry
Mingdi Yan,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell,
2:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Force transduction and conformational regulation of alpha-catenin in cell adhesion and migration
William Weis,
William M. Hume Professor,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Characterizing bacterial aerobic methanotrophs in the marine water column
Patricia Tavormina,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Graph spectra and diophantine equations
Gunther Cornelissen,
Mathematics,
Univ. of Utrecht,
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Physics Research Conference
Touch the Dark Matter
Harry Nelson,
Professor of Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, March 7th, 2014
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Catalytic Enantioselective Helicene Synthesis
Ken Tanaka,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Applied Chemistry,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Conformal bootstrap: the status of the 3d Ising project
Slava Rychkov,
CERN,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Magnetized binary neutron star merger simulations on K
Kenta Kiuchi,
Research Assistant Professor,
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Kyoto University,
2:30pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Boomerang Flight Dynamics
John Vassberg,
Technical Fellow,
Lead Engineer,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Design Center,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Reducible Surgeries and Heegaard Flor Homology
Nicolas Zufelt,
UT Austin,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Gene regulation during cell-fate specification in two developmental systems
Manu ,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Genomics & Systems Biology,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Self-Assembly of (A)symmetric Brush Copolymers
Benjamin Sveinbjornsson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, March 8th, 2014
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Southern California Number Theory Day 2014
Matt Baker,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Elena Fuchs,
University of California, Berkeley,
Christopher Skinner,
Princeton University,
Mamjul Bhargava ,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Sunday, March 9th, 2014
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Artificial colloidal microswimmers: from turbulence to crystallization
Hartmut Löwen,
Professor,
Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of Düsseldorf,
1:00pm
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