Institute Calendar
May 2015
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Experimental Study on Inertial Effects in Liquid-Solid Flows
Esperanza Linares,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Comparative Measures of Naivete and Sophistication for Dynamically Inconsistent Preferences
David Ahn, Associate Professor, Economics Department, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving Discrepancies in High Global Warming Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Atmospheric Measurements
Ray Weiss,
Distinguished Research Professor of Geochemistry,
Department of Geosciences Research,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry
Spectral Triples and Toeplitz Operators
Bruno Iochum,
Mathematics,
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
John M. Logsdon,
Professor Emeritus ,
Political Science and International Affairs,
George Washington University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 7th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Jamming, Flow, and Fluctuations for Granular Materials
Robert Behringer,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Duke University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Single molecule Barcoding of Drosophila Dscam Spliceoforms to understand Neuronal Self-identity
Kelly Burke,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Cellular Mechanisms of Membrane Protein Folding
William Skatch, MD,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Oregon Health & Science University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Fundamental Trade-offs in Primal-Dual Optimization
Volkan Cevher,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
American Poetry in Public
Virginia Jackson,
UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Critical Theory School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids
Amir Yacoby,
Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED | Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Dan Benjamin,
Visiting Associate Professor (Research) of Economics, CESR, USC,
Friday, May 8th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Geometric engineering, Mirror symmetry and 6d (1,0) to 4d N=2
Dan Xie,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Electrodynamic Effects of Inflationary Gravitons
Richard Woodard,
University of Florida,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmic Neutrinos and Large-scale Structure
Marilena Loverde,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
KICP,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Teichmüller space is rigid
Kasra Rafi,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Alkylation
Shoshana Bachman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Surface temperature determination of small bodies
Federico Tosi,
Research Associate,
INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system
Scott Geraedts,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 9th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lee Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vahid & Sarkisyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Derushian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nina David Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ara Avakian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 10th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2015
9:00am
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9:01am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Precision Landing for SpaceX's Reusable Rockets
Lars Blackmore,
Dr.,
SpaceX,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Expanding the Toolkit for Synthetic Biology"
Emmanuel (Emzo) de los Santos,
PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
Califoria Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Progress Toward the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide and the Polycyclic Furanobutenolide Norcembranoid Diterpenes and Construction of the Ineleganoloids
Robert Craig,
Graduate Student, Stoltz group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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