Institute Calendar
April 2019
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Oxygen Sources on Europa" and "Seasonal Cycles Over a Broad Range of Planetary Climates"
Jiazheng Li,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Ana Lobo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Chemical Biological Approach to Understanding Infection"
Deborah Hung,
Professor,
Molecular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Shimura varieties, Galois representations, and torsion classes
Ana Caraiani,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Searching for Approval
Ali Hortacsu,
Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Reaction Development for the Total Syntheses of the Terpenoid Natural Products (+)-Psiguadial B, (+)-Rumphellaone A, and (–)-Isodocarpin
Jordan C. Beck,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:45am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Observing the evolution of the Earth's carbon cycle from space
Anthony Bloom,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Deciphering patterns in selective small molecule:RNA interactions
Amanda Hargrove,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry,
Duke University; Duke University Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Correlated Large Contests
Juuso Välimäki,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Aalto University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 18th, 2019
10:00am
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Architected Materials for Adaptive Energy Absorption and Bioinspired Self-Adaptable Materials
Sung Hoon Kang,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Hopkins Extreme Materials,
John Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Structural and Functional Analysis of the Nuclear Pore Complex Cytoplasmic Filament Nup358
Si Nie,
PostDoc, Hoelz Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Reassessing evidence of life in 3.7 billion yr-old rocks of Greenland, and lessons for Mars2020
Abigail Allwood,
Scientist,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Harden M. McConnell Lecture
An Enzymatic Process That Changed the World: Light-Induced Water Oxidation in Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Wolfgang Lubitz,
Professor,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Building Single Molecules – reactions, collisions, and spectroscopy of two atoms
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 19th, 2019
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension
Temple He,
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Hechen Ren,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Natural Features: Artists, Architects, and Scientists Imagine Space
Lize Mogel,
Artist and Counter-Cartographer,
Jeff Stuart,
Mission Design & Navigation Systems Engineer,
JPL,
Dilip da Cunha,
Architect and Planner; Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Adjunct Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Chiral Heterocycles: Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis and Medicinal Utility
Alexander Sun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor - Condensed Matter Theory,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia and Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hairy Hydrodynamics
Peko Hosoi,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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