Institute Calendar
December 2014
Friday, December 5th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen
Elizabeth Lovegrove,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Stress state effects in yield and flow responses of nanocrystalline metals
David L. McDowell,
Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing; Regents' Professor Mechanics of Materials; Executive Director, Institute for Materials,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Decouplings and applications
Ciprian Demeter,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups
Mark Hagen,
RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Protection of Photoanodes for Water-Splitting in Harsh Environments
Michael Lichterman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow
Shauna Kravec,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Univ. of California, San Diego,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse)
David Levermore,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Marc Rayman,
Director,
Dawn Project Mission,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2014
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Rodriuguez Quinceanera Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachoyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 7th, 2014
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Agram Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wilson - Luna Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Development and Evolution of the Animal Face: From Principles to Mechanisms
Arkhat Abzhanov,
Associate Professor,
Prof, Biochemistry/Microbiology and Biology Dept. ,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Fooled By Randomness? Financial Decision-Making Under Model Uncertainty
Elise Payzan-LeNestour,
Senior Lecturer in Finance,
Australia Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Stacks in Representation Theory (What is a continuous representation of an algebraic group?)
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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. Marten van Kerkwijk,
Univ. of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Monoallelic Regulation and Epigenetic Dynamics during X-chromosome Inactivation
Edith Heard,
Professor,
Genetics and Developmental Biology,
Institute Curie,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Prospects for gravitational-wave background detection with Advanced LIGO/Virgo
Eric Thrane,
Monash University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
8:00am
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12/12
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Computational Predictions of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structures and Binding Sites
Andrea Kirkpatrick,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Index Coding - An Interference Management Perspective
Hua Sun,
Graduate Student,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
U. C. Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Island Rainfall Enhancement and the Tropical Climate
Timothy Cronin,
NOAA and HUCE Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 11th, 2014
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Tuning the human biosensor for detecting and repelling viral infection
Anna Marie Pyle,
Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The eigencurve at classical weight one points
Mladen Dimitrov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University Lille 1,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Paul Dirac - the theorist's theorist
Graham Farmelo,
Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston ,