Institute Calendar
May 2014
Monday, May 5th, 2014
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Its Application Toward the Synthesis of Taiwaniaquinoid Natural Products
Jeffrey Holder,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater
John Grotzinger,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D
Fiona Burnell,
Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Molecular Oxygen as a Reagent in Late Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry
Karen Goldberg,
Nicole A. Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry and Director, Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis,
Chemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
'Isotopes of Disease'
Francis Albarede,
Professor of Geochemistry ENS Lyon,
Department of Earth and Science,
ENS Lyon - Université de Lyon 1 - CNRS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity and a naturally light dilaton
Prateek Agrawal,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools
Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Defense.
"Design and Analysis of Nucleic Acid Reaction Pathways"
Brian Wolfe,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Hopi Hoekstra,
Professor,
Dept. Zoology, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
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
The Search for Young Planets
Prof. Russel White,
Georgia State Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Excitonic Dynamics in Conjugated Molecular Materials
Peter J. Rossky,
Marvin K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
ot and Shiny: Atmospheric Characterization of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Kepler-13Ab
Avi Shporer,
Sagan Fellow,
Caltech/JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Introduction to categorification
Mikhail Khovanov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Snapshots of Transcription Initiation by Cryo-EM
Hans Olof Elmlund,
Dr.,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the functional analysis of quantum variables
Edward Effros,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Next: Breakthrough Technologies for National Security
Arati Prabhakar,
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Every action of a non-amenable group is the factor of a small action
Brandon Seward,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contractual Chains and Modes of Contractual Linkages
Joel Watson,
Professor of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The physiological consequences of altering stomatal developent in plants -- lessons from Arabidopsis
Graham Dow,
NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Mimicry of Polypeptide Recognition Surfaces with Foldamers
Samuel H. Gellman,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lemus Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Aseismic Slip and Seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Stimulation of Geological Faults
Frederic Cappa,
Associate Professor,
Geoazur Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory,
University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Bio-manufacturing of chemicals and materials
Sang Yup Lee,
Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
How Multiple Forms of Learning Guide Decisions
Daphna Shohamy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
!! RESCHEDULED !! This talk has been rescheduled for May 29
Heather Pinkett,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Seminar
A Skilful Speaker and Agitator of the Communist Intellectual Type': How Jacob Bronowski's Wartime Security Service (MI5) File Overshadowed His Career
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for ‎Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Heegner cycles and p-adic L-functions
Francesc Castella,
Dr.,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Controlling superconductivity with light
Alessandra Lanzara,
Professor of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Quantitatively understanding the impacts of airborne particles on clouds, storms and climate
Athanasios Nenes,
Professor and Georgia Power Faculty Scholar,
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Insitute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2014
9:00am
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3:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Lisa Jardine,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor, Caltech,
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London,
Director of the UCL Centre for ‎Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Centre for Editing Lives and Letters,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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