Institute Calendar
May 2016
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
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Logic Seminar
An invariant set-theoretic approach to "no analytic mad families
Asger Törnquist,
Mathematics,
University of Copenhagen,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD seminar
Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging for Selective Analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteome
Brett Babin,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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
TBD
Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami,
CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Developing experiments to visualize the dynamics of biomolecular recognition and binding
Andrei Tokmakoff,
Henry G. Dale Distinguished Service Professor,
Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Collaboration opportunities with NASA Langley Research Center
Steven Reznick,
Dr.,
GALCIT,
NASA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Processing Tastes in Drosophila
Kristin Scott,
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development,
Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Geophysics at Pluto and Charon: A first look
Francis Nimmo,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Lecture 3: New Results on Bounded, Complete Minimal Surfaces
Peter Jones,
Professor,
Mathematics & Applied Math,
Yale University,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Operator scaling and applications to non-commutative rational identity testing
Ankit Garg,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar
Geometric picture for scattering amplitudes
Jaroslav Trnka,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition
Jonathan Fortney,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
The Development and Application of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions in Drug Discovery
James Craig Ruble,
Dr., Ph.D., Research Advisor and Catalysis Lab Leader,
Eli Lilly and Company,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Investigation of methane sources in the Netherlands and in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf with isotope measurements
Thomas Röckmann,
Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry,
Utrecht University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Control Thermal Radiation with Nanophotonic Structures
Shanhui Fan,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
8:50am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Quantum of Vision: the speed vs accuracy tradeoff in visual recognition
Bo Chen,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
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
"M -2.5 to M -8 Laboratory-Generated Earthquakes Recorded From Calibrated Rock Deformation Experiments"
Gregory McLaskey,
Professor,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity"
Gustavo Rios,
Bioenigineering PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Atomic Resolution Electron Microscopy: A New Tool for Organic Chemists
Eiichi Nakamura,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers
Ana Maria Rey,
Fellow of JILA, NIST and Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics, University of Colorado,
JILA,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 13th, 2016
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Leonard Schulman, Caltech
The Invisible Hand of Laplace: the Role of Market Structure in Price Convergence and Oscillation
Leonard Schulman,
Professor of Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Ni–Catalyzed Intramolecular C–O Bond Formation and A Unified, Stereodivergent Approach to the Synthesis of Communesin F and Perophoramidine
Seojung Han,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery
Wen-fai Fong,
Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Steward Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
How not to prove the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture
David Gay,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Jackie Villadsen,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 14th, 2016
2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Newland Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Sarkissian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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Sunday, May 15th, 2016
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Chemical Reaction Dynamics of the Liquid/Vapor Interface Studied by Mass Spectrometry
Daniel Thomas,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Beauchamp group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"
Debora Marks,
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard Medical School,