Institute Calendar
January 2016
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
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Logic Seminar
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation, III
William Chan,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
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
Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology
Prof. Ryan Foley,
Univ. of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mitochondrial Fission and Stress
Alex Van Der Bliek,
Professor, Biological Chemistry ,
Computing Technologies Research Laboratory,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
TBA
Alex van der Bliek,
Professor, Biological Chemistry ,
Computing Technologies Research Laborator,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low energy probes of high energy physics
David Moore,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Companions to Low-Mass Stars
Benjamin Montet,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions
Elliott Lieb,
Professor of Mathematics and Physics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron supply to an anemic ocean: Using Fe isotopes to trace global Fe sources
Seth John,
Associate Professor (Research),
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
mRNA Processing and Links to Human Disease
James Manley,
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences,
Columbia University Biological Sciences,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Atomic Packing and Structure-Property Correlations in Amorphous Metals
Evan Ma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Engineering Proteins for Selective Catalysis
Jared C. Lewis,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Building the First Spaceport in Low Earth Orbit
John Blincow,
Gateway Foundation,
Dr. Thomas R. Spilker,
Retired (JPL),
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, January 14th, 2016
8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Molybdenum-Quinonoid Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Justin Henthorn,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Running rings (and spirals) around DNA: molecular mechanisms for initiating and controlling replication
James Berger,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the set of L-space surgeries for links
Eugene Gorsky,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Bounding 2-torsion in class groups
Jacob Tsimerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
What does a typical dynamical system look like?
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely,
DSAC Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Allen H Farrington,
DSAC Project Manager,
JPL,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
"A Continuum Model for Slip-Twinning Interactions in Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys"
Yingrui (Ray) Chang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Physics Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multifield Interactions for Programmable Metamaterials
Massimo Ruzzene,
Professor,
D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering ,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
Timothy P. (Patrick) Montgomery,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
A Fast and Scalable Method for A-Optimal Design of Experiments for Infinite-dimensional Bayesian Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Noemi Petra,
Assistant Professor,
School of Natural Sciences,
University of California, Merced,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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)
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely,
DSAC Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Allen H. Farrington,
DSAC Project Manager,
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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