Institute Calendar
March 2014
Monday, March 10th, 2014
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Activity-based proteomics--applications for enzyme and inhibitor discovery"
Benjamin F. Cravatt,
Professor and Chair,
Department of Chemical Physiology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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Swift Lecture
Getting Around the Current-Voltage Trade-off in Organic Solar Cells
Mark E. Thompson,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
From Quantum Electronics to Light-Matter Interaction with Van der Waal Heterostructures
Arindam Ghosh,
Professor,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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EE Special Seminar
Information Flows in Distributed Communication, Storage and Computing
Viveck Cdambe,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Biological Mechanisms of Magnetite Formation in Bacteria
Arash Komeili,
Associate Professor,
Plant and Microbial Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Eavesdropping on the Dark Sound of the Universe
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine,
Caltech & JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Twisted group algebras and strict deformation quantisation
Branimir Cacic,
Mathematics,
Texas A&M,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Weighing the Giants: Accurate Weak Lensing Mass Measurements for Cosmological Cluster Surveys
Anja von der Linden,
Stanford,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational waves and electromagnetic counter parts of binary neutron star mergers
Masaru Shibata,
University of Kyoto,
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
Prof. Peter Garnavich,
Notre Dame Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Seeing the Invisible: Bioorthogonal Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine
Wei Min,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Using Optogenetics to Dissect Information Processing in Cell Signaling Networks
Jared Toettcher,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Cancer Research Center,
University of California San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning
Quentin Berthet,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
8:00am
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9:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Kakeya and restriction conjectures
Mark Lewko,
Mathematics,
UCLA & IAS Princeton,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters: Insights from Cosmological Simulations
Sam Skillman,
Stanford/KIPAC,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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EE Special Seminar
Efficient Learning and Inference with Combinatorial Structure
Stefanie Jegelka,
Postdoctural Researcher,
U. C. Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science (Special Wednesday Seminar)
Building Earth-like Planets: From Gas and Dust to Ocean Worlds
Linda Elkins-Tanton,
Director,
Terrestrial Magnetism,
Carnegie Institution,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Understanding and Optimizing Solution Processed Solids for Energy Applications
Vanessa Wood,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology,
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Designer DNA Bases: Probing Molecules and Mechanisms in Biology
Eric T. Kool,
George and Hilda Daubert Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Civil Liberties in the National Security Era: What Happened to Edward Snowden?
Susan N. Herman,
National President,
American Civil Liberties Union,
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
8:00am
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3/16
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9:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neuroimaging Genetic Biomarkers of Addiction
Elliot A. Stein,
National Institute of Drug Abuse,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
John Trevisa and Late Medieval Literary Encyclopedism
Emily Steiner,
Department of English,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
David Crisp,
Science Team Leader,
OCO-2,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,