Institute Calendar
March 2006
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PHOTOGRAPHY: SCHOOL PROJECT - JENNIFER O'CONNOR
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Analytic Capacity, Cauchy Integrals, Menger Curvature, and Bilipschitz Maps
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Uncertainty Quantification through the Lenses of Concentration Inequalities and Large Deviations
Houman Owhadi,
Applied and Computational Mathematics - Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Darwin's Dumpster: How Cellular Sloppiness Governs the Rate of Evolution
D. Allan Drummond,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Activity-Based Proteomics
Benjamin F. Cravatt,
Professor,
Department of Cell Biology and Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
8:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Soft-State Biological Application Specific Circuits and Nanocrescents for Quantitative Biomedicine
Luke Lee,
Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
UC Berkeley,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sulfur-, Molybdenum- and Iron-based Perspectives on Proterozoic Ocean Chemistry
Tim Lyons,
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Scalable Automated Methods for Software Reliability
Koushik Shen,
PhD Candidate,
Computer Science,
Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Oxide Nanoarchitectures with Innate Ion Wires Yield Enhanced Nanoionic Properties
Debra Rolison,
Doctor,
Naval Research Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Novel Hadrons
Chris Quigg,
Theoretical Physics Department,
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Automorphic Forms, Topological Strings, and Perhaps Black Holes
Andrew Neitzke,
IAS,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cellular Uptake of Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
Cindy Puckett,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms
Luming Duan,
Assistant Professor,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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RF and Microwave Seminar
Dual-Use Design Strategies for Electromechanical Systems and Power Processing Circuitry
Robert Cox,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
8:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
8:00am
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PHOTOGRAPHY: BOWERS PARTY (FAMILY PORTRAIT)
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the LSST Project
J. Anthony Tyson,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Functional Genomic Analysis of Gene Regulation Mediated by Small RNAs in C. elegans
John Kim,
Prof.,
Department of Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School,
Department of Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Merrimac: High-Performance, Highly Efficient Scientific Computing with Streams
Mattan Erez,
PhD Candidate,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Unification and Coherence
Stephan Hartmann,
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method ,
London School of Economics,
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Special GALCIT and Bioengineering Seminar
Nanomechanics of Biological Cells and Human Disease States
Subra Suresh,
Ford Professor of Engineering,
department of materials science and engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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
Clues to the Formation of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Tuning LIGO to Listen to Gravitational Waves
Rana Adhikari,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
LIGO Laboratory,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
New Insights from Dynamics Calculations Using Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces That Are Permutationally Invariant: Photodissociation in H2CO and Internal Isomerization in CH5+
Joel M. Bowman,
Department Chair, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Theoretical Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Emory University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mapping Neural Circuits in the Fly Brain
Julie Simpson,
Dr.,
Janelia Farm,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Status of ZEPLIN II- A Direct Matter Search Detector Using 40kg Liquid Xenon
Hanguo Wang,
Assistant Professor of EE,
Electrical and Computing Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Electoral Accountability and the Variety of Democratic Regimes
David Samuels,
University of Minnesota,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
10:00am
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent Changes in the Arctic Marine Environment: What Can We Learn from Geochemical Tracers of Oceanic Circulation?
Christopher Guay,
President,
Pacific Marine Sciences and Technology LLC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Linking Proteins, Particles, Wires and Dots with Ferroelectric Nanolithography
Dawn Bonnell,
Professor,
The University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Decoding Structure-Activity Relationships of Carbohydrates in the Brain
Linda Hsieh-Wilson,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Definition and Design of Biological Circuits
Pamela Silver,
Professor,
System Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Trees and Silicate Weathering: Interactions between Geosphere and Biosphere
Megan Andrews,
Student,
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Virtual Infrastructure for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Seth Gilbert,
PhD Candidate,
Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Tailoring of Natural Products by Biosynthetic Halogenations
Christopher T. Walsh,
Professor,
Department of Biological Chemistry,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Physical Methods for Modeling Biological Systems
Eric Mjolsness,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information and Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications
Peter Svrcek,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Julia S. Meyer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
The Ohio State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement Entropy from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Tadashi Takayanagi,
KITP, UCSB,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Ligands for Ziegler-Natta Polymerization: Probing the Anion Effect in Polymerization
Steven Baldwin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
9:00am
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6:00pm
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: BACABAC/AKIRA PARTY
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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