Institute Calendar
February 2006
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Geochemical and Genetic Controls of Microbial Arsenite Oxidation
Timothy R. McDermott,
Associate Professor,
Center for Biofilm Engineering,
Montana State University - Bozeman,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Human Computation
Luis von Ahn,
Post Doc Fellow,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Polarity Reversal Catalysis: New Strategies and Applications
Jeffrey S. Johnson,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Innateness as Closed Process Invariance
Jonathan Weinberg,
Philosophy,
Indiana University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
6:00am
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10:00pm
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9:00am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical Scale Investigations of Drug-Reception Interactions at the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Amanda L. Cashin,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Where was Cuyania (the Greater Precordillera Terrane) during the Early Paleozoic?
Stan Finney,
Professor and Department Chairman,
Department of Geological Sciences,
California State University at Long Beach ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Stefan Westerhoff,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
Columbia University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
New Views of Hidden Worlds: Revealing the Depths of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan with 21st Century Spacecraft
Kevin Baines,
planetary scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
9:00am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Non(anti)commutative Superspace and N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
Katsushi Ito,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Synthesis of Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Copolymers via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Ron Walker,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Many-Body Lattice Calculation with Effective Field Theory: Thermal Properties of Low-Density Neutron Matter
Ryoichi Seki,
Professor,
Kellogg Radiation Laboratory and Physics,
Caltech and CSU-Northridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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RF and Microwave Seminar
Integrated Biosensor Microarrays
Arjang Hassibi,
Postdoctural Scholar,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Corrole Sensitized Titanium Dioxide
Don Walker,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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)
New Views of Hidden Worlds: Revealing the Depths of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan with 21st Century Spacecraft
Kevin Baines
Kevin Baines
Baines,
planetary scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006
9:00am
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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9:30am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
9:30am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Dr. Daniel C. Dennett,
Director, Center for Cognitive Studies,
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy,
Tufts University,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Declarative Networking: Extensible Networks with Declarative Queries
Boon Thau Loo,
PhD Candidate,
Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Qubit Complexity of Continuous Problems
Joseph Traub,
Professor,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Concerning the Mechanism and Selectivity of Palladium (II) Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions
Raissa M. Trend,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
BBO and the Neutron-Star-Binary Subtraction Problem
Curt Cutler,
Principal Scientist,
Relativity and Gravitation Team,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
MicroRNAs and Gene Regulatory Networks that Control Neuronal Diversity in C. elegans
Oliver Hobert,
Dr.,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Columbia University College of Physicans and Surgeons,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry
Csaba Balazs,
Postdoc,
High Energy Physics,
Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Building MIT: Architecture and Technology
Thomas P. Hughes,
Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology ,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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