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The dendritic effect in coordination chemistry: fundamental investigations and applications to sustainable chemistry, engineering and materials (SusChEM)

Mamadou S. Diallo, Professor, Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Visiting Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Lecture

Kerckhoff 125

The Serendipitous Path of Discovery: From Protein Folding to Cognition

Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar

Kerckhoff 125

"The Serendipitous Path of Discovery: From Protein Folding to Cognition"

Peter Walter, Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Sean Loyd

Sean Loyd, Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, CSU Fullerton,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

The Galaxy in a new light: Gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes

Werner Hofmann, Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, Germany,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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UPDATED | Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

A neurocomputational theory of cognitive control over learning

Sang Wan Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience, Caltech,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

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Beginning & Intermediate Salsa Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

The Search for Planets, Habitability, and Life in our Galaxy

Nick Siegler, Technology Manager, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, JPL,

8:00pm – 10:00pm

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Andrew Hodges: "Alan Turing: An Individual of the Twentieth Century"

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

12:00am – 5/23 12:00am

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(Baseball) Caltech at NCAA Championship

12:00am – 12:00am

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(Track) NCAA Championships

9:00am – 10:00am

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PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Using Selective Agonists and Positive Allosteric Modulators

Christopher Marotta, Graduate Student, Dougherty group, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

String-Scale SUSY Breaking: Clues for the Low – l CMB ?

Augusto Sagnotti, CERN, Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN-Pisa,

11:00am – 12:00pm

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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synergizing Theory and Experiments in Asymmetric Catalysis through Transition State Modeling: Leads for Rational Catalyst Design

Raghavan B. Sunoj, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Materials Research Lecture

Watson 104

Advances and challenges in first-principles simulations of materials at extreme conditions

Igor A. Abrikosov, Professor, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Sweden,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

The Physics of Radiation-Driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei

Daniel Proga, Professor, Department of Physics, UNLV,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

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PhD Thesis Seminar

South Mudd 365

Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopies for Applications of Remote Sensing, Chemical Kinetics and Detection of Radical Species

Thinh Bui, Graduate Student, Okumura group, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling

Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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