Institute Calendar
March 2016
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Searching for continuous gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1
Badri Krishnan,
Physics,
AEI,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Measuring the Mass Function of Dark Matter Subhalos with ALMA Observations of Graviationally Lensing Surveys
Dr. Yashar Hezaveh,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Complex Biological Systems
Ed Boyden,
MIT Media Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Strains And Simulations: Inferring Properties of Gravitational Wave Sources Without Models
James Clark,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, March 24th, 2016
12:00am
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8:30am
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10:30am
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LIGO Seminar
Quantum Speed Meter Based on Dissipative Coupling
Sergey Vyatchanin,
Moscow State Univeristy,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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
In the Blink of the Eye: What 10 Years at Mars Can Tell Us About the Planet
Leslie Tamppari,
MRO Deputy Project Scientist,
Friday, March 25th, 2016
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Defects and Instantons in five-dimensional field theories
Hee-Cheol Kim,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Physics near Rapidly Spinning Black Holes
Samuel Gralla,
Asst Professor,
Dept of Physics,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Targeting DNA Mismatches with Rhodium Metalloinsertors
Kelsey M. Boyle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
In the Blink of the Eye: What 10 Years at Mars Can Tell Us About the Planet
Leslie Tamppari,
MRO Deputy Project Scientist,
Saturday, March 26th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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9:30am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Sun Engagement Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, March 28th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Pluto-Charon System: Geology, Geophysics, and Origins
William B. McKinnon,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Decoherence as a way to measure extremely soft collisions with low-mass dark matter
Jess Reidel,
Perimeter Institute,
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
9:30am
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10:30am
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Women's History Month Event
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Panel: Creating an Organization Where Both Men and Women can Thrive
Susan Murphy,
Author and Management Consultant,
Beverley McKeon,
GALCIT Associate Director,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Robert Papppalardo,
EUROPA Project Scientist,
JPL,
Serina Diniega,
Scientist/System Engineer,
JPL,
Cinzia Zuffada,
Moderator of the Panel and Associate Chief Scientist ,
JPL,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Reverse Engineering Supernovae
Dan Milisavljevic,
Center for Asirophysics,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
A Priori Gas Phase Kinetics and the Foundations of Chemical Modeling
Dr. Stephen Klippenstein,
Argonne National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Where are the branches in a many-body wavefunction?
Jess Riedel,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
"Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in an Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys"
Prof. Alexie Leauthaud,
IPMU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 1 of 2)
Hu Fu,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Chemistry Seminar
Making Beer and Making it in Beer, a Chemist's Perspective
Dr. Diego Benitez,
Owner,
Progress Brewing,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Hidden sectors: a window on the dark universe
Bertrand Echenard,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
The Central Dogma De-centralized: Local Control of Protein Synthesis at Synapses
Erin Schuman,
Managing Director,
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research ,