Institute Calendar
May 2014
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
10:30am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
How to Create a Perfect Microscope by Adding a Computer
Changhuei Yang,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Medical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
HSTPROMO: Local Group Dynamics from HST Proper Motions
Dr. Roeland van der Marel,
STScI,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Becoming Earthlings: Citizen-Observers in Nineteenth-Century Geoscience
Deborah Coen,
Associate Professor of History,
Barnard College, Columbia University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Tracking Planet Footprints in Dusty Disks
Catherine Espaillat,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
Boston University,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Seminar
Investigations of Our Cosmic Origins
Brett McGuire,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Blake group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Seminar
Computational Design of Self-assembling Proteins and Protein-DNA Nanowires
Yun Mou,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Mayo group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
Logic Seminar
The Pinned Cardinal of Analytic Equivalence Relations
William Chan,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Chemistry Seminar
The structure of nature's water splitting catalyst prior to O-‐O bond formation: Water binding and water splitting in photosynthesis
Nick Cox,
Staff Scientist,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion,
3:00pm
–
4:30pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Colloquium
Rest-frame Optical Spectra: A Window into Galaxy Formation at z~2
Alice Shapley,
UCLA,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Bray Theory Workshop
Ostracism
S. Nageeb Ali,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Earth system response to massive carbon release: Atmospheric CO2, climate sensitivity, and ocean chemistry through time
Richard Zeebe,
Professor of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology,
Department of Oceanography,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Small Molecule Probes of APOBEC3 DNA Cytosine Deaminases
Daniel A. Harki,
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry,
Medicinal Chemistry Department,
University of Minnesota,
4:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
CMA presents "The Secret Life of a Snowflake: Puzzles and Peculiarities in the Molecular Dynamics of Crystal Growth"
JPL
Kenneth G. Libbrecht,
Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Public Experiments
Steve Kurtz,
Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Studies,
University of Buffalo,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
8:00am
–
Ongoing
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Fast Pressure-Correction Method for Simulating Two-Fluid Flows and DNS of Droplet-Laden Isotropic Turbulence
Antonino Ferrante,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics,
University of Washington,
11:30am
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geometry and Topology Seminar
A Morse-Bott approach to Pin(2)-monopole Floer homology
Francesco Lin,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Affective Dynamics: Motivations, Goals, and Trajectories
Wil Cunningham,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Biochemistry Seminar
Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanostructures: Establishing a New Paradigm in Molecular Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation
Chad Mirkin,
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Multiscale patient-specific systems biology
Scott Diamond,
Arthur E. Humphrey Professor and Department Chair,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Number Theory Seminar
Patching and the p-adic local Langlands Correspondence
David Geraghty,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Boston College,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Research Conference
Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System
Kevin Hand,
Deputy Chief Scientist, Solar System Exploration,
JPL,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wiersma Lecture
From understanding to curing: the long road to neuroprotective therapies for neurodegenerative diseases
Marie-Francoise Chesselet,
Professor,
Neurology & Neurobiology,
UCLA,
5:30pm
–
7:30pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Putting the 'P' in 'JPL'--The Past, Present, and Future of Propulsion at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Todd Barber,
Cassini Propulsion Lead Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
9:30am
–
10:30am
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Seminar
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors
Alexis Komor,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Barton group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Bootstrapping Conformal Field Theories
David Simmons-Duffin,
Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Seminar
Role of Conformational Changes in G Protein-Coupled Receptor Activation
Caitlin Scott,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Underbidding and Experience and USFS Timber Auctions
Benjamin Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase ISM
Blakesley Burkhart,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
UW-Madison,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Resolving the Mesoscale Response of Heterogeneous Materials Under Extreme Dynamic Loading Conditions
John Borg,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Marquette University,
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Plane Floer Homology and the Knot Concordance Group
Aliakbar Daemi,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Molybdenum para-Terphenyl Diphosphine Complexes: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalysis
Joshua Alan Buss,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,