Institute Calendar
March 2017
Monday, March 6th, 2017
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Bioengineering Lecture
Giant Protein Assemblies in Nature and by Design
Todd Yeates,
Professor,
Biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Triggering of the Largest Deccan Eruptions by the Chicxulub Impact OR What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?"
Mark A. Richards,
Professof of Geophysics,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Moving Hydrides with Iron and Electrons through Metal Oxides: Utility for Hydrogen Generation and Activation
Michael J. Rose,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Special Mathematics Lecture
Tales of our Forefathers
Barry Simon,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
8:00am
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Unified Control of Dynamic Robotic Systems
Aaron Ames,
Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Engineering & Applied Science,
CALTECH,
1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Developing Enhanced Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation Using Spectroscopic Insights
Linsey Seitz,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Illusory Late Heavy Bombardments
Patrick Boehnke,
Postdoc,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
The Expenses of Sovereignty: Federal Finance, Dependence, and Allegiance in the Early U.S. Territories
Greg Ablavsky,
Assistant Professor of Law,
Stanford Law School,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
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10:00am
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10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Full Measure Reducibility and Localization for Quasi- Periodic Jacobi Operators: a Topological Criterion
Rui Han,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Postdoctoral Scholars Allegra Liberman-Martin Ph.D. & Yuanyue Liu Ph.D.
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Risk Aversion as a Perceptual Bias
Michael Woodford,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar in Conjunction with the Young Investigators Lecture Series sponsored by the Caltech Division of Engineering & Applied Science
Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) for Energy Recovery from Wastewater
Christine Dykstra,
Graduate Student,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Rich Optics from a Seemingly Simple System: Nanoparticle Arrays
Teri Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Director of the International Institute of Nanotechnology (IIN),
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Berry Connection of the Ginzburg-Landau Vortices
Akos Nagy,
Department of Pure Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Marine Natural Products Synthesis: A Platform for Chemical and Biological Discovery
Joshua G. Pierce,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Ordered set partitions, generalized coinvariant algebras, and the Delta Conjecture
Brendon Rhoades,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Characterizing thixotropy of fresh cement-based systems modified by clays"
Shiho Kawashima,
Professor,
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Arnab Mukherjee,
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shapiro Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
2:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Self-Force: Towards Waveforms for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Anna Heffernan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics Department,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Precisely Funtionalized Molecular Nanoparticles Are Unique Elements for Macromolecular Science: From "Nanoatoms" to Giant Molecules
Stephen Z.D. Cheng,
Frank C. Sullivan Distinguished Research Professor; Robert C. Musson Professor; Trustees Professor; Senior Editor, Polymer,
Department of Polymer Science,
University of Akron,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
From microshards to megaliths: A micro-analytical method to source far-travelled geological materials
Nick Pearce,
Professor,
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth University,
4:00pm
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