Institute Calendar
May 2015
Monday, May 25th, 2015
8:00am
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9:00am
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Development of an ensemble-based, triggerable single photon source
Kate Ferguson,
Research School of Physics & Engineering, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences,
Australian National University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Security of Logic and Logic of Security: Protecting Content and Devices in the Pervasive Computing Era
Farinaz Koushanfar,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rice University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Seminar
Shimojo Lab Presenting
Sang Wan Lee,
PhD,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Califoria Institute of Technology,
Noelle Stiles,
PhD,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Connie Wang,
PhD Candidate,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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5/29
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Dancing to the Beat of a TeraHertz Drum: Molecular Motion from the Interstellar Medium to Pure Liquids
Marco Allodi,
Graduate Student, Blake group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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. Scott Ransom,
NRAO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Dots – Artificial Atoms, Large Molecules or Small Pieces of Bulk? Insights from Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies
Oleg V. Prezhdo,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Predator Sensing and Evasion in Fish
Matt McHenry,
Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
School of Biological Sciences ,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Saturn seismology: complex interactions between the planet, the rings, and the moons
Jim Fuller,
Postdoc,
GPS,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Caltech OSA Student Chapter & the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science
X-ray Lasers: From Star Wars to the Table-Top
Joseph Nilsen,
Physicist, Fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling of Benzylic Electrophiles
Andrew Wang,
Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Menger compacta as projective Fraisse limits with emphasis on dimension one
Slawomir Solecki,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Real-World Social Cognition: Context Effects in Face and Threat Processing
Laura Harrison,
CNS graduate student,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Mining Critical Metals and Elements from Seawater-An Overview of Recent Advances
Mamadou Diallo,
Visiting Associate in Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmological Calorimetry: The nature of the intergalactic medium and the photon underproduction crisis
Juna Kollmeier,
Carnegie,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
When Algebraic Geometry Meets Graph Theory
Mohamed Omar,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A new look at the organic carbon cycle in the global ocean
Ellen Druffel,
Fred Kavli Professor,
Department of Earth System Science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Predicting Materials for Energy from First Principles
Giulia Galli,
Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering,
The Institute for Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Structure, Function, and Inhibition of Bacterial Cell Walls and Biofilms: Lessons from Small Molecules and a Big Magnet
Lynette Cegelski,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Cell Dynamics Imaged at High Resolution
Tomas Kirchhausen,
Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Pediatrics,
Departments of Cell Biology and Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
DNA-Mediated Charge Transport Devices for Protein Detection
Ariel Furst,
Graduate Student, Barton group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Tackling the engineering challenges of Hyperloop – Turning Concept Into Reality
Brogan BamBrogan,
CEO (Interim), CTO & Co-Founder,
Hyerloop Technologies, Inc.,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Diketopiperazine-Containing Natural Products: (–)-lansai B, (+)-nocardioazines A and B, and (–)-acetylapoaranotin
Haoxuan Wang,
Graduate Student, Reisman group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors and the Design of Bifunctional Conjugates
Alyson Weidmann,
Graduate Student, Barton group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics
Dan Benjamin, Visiting Associate Professor (Research) of Economics, CESR, USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport at boundaries on a microscopic scale
Rob G.H. Lammertink,
Professor,
Soft Matter Fluidics and Interfaces, Mesa+ Institute for Nanotechnology,
University of Twente,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
Alan Guth,
Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
MIT,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 29th, 2015
8:00am
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9:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
PROGRESS TOWARD THE TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF CURCUSONE C AND MECHANISTIC ELUCIDATION OF AN UNEXPECTED REARRANGEMENT
Chung Whan Lee,
Graduate Student, Stoltz group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Sensing and actuation from biology to electronics
Alex Pai,
Electrical Engineering graduate student,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Replica-symmetry-breaking instantons in glassy systems
Sho Yaida,
Duke University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Dynamics for the random-cluster model
Alistair Sinclair,
Professor,
EECS,
UC Berkeley/Simons Institute,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics
Donal O'Connell,
University of Edinburgh,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neural Prosthetics and Parietal Cortex
Boris Revechkis,
CNS graduate student,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Multifunctional Materials: Bottom-up & Top-down
Raymond Weitekamp,
Graduate Student, Grubbs group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A New Framework for the Interpretation of Modulated Martensites in Shape Memory Alloys
Ryan Elliot,
Associate Professor, Russell J. Penrose Faculty Fellow,
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Tian Yang,
Szego Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain
Marius Lemm,
Mathematics,
Caltech,