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PHOTOGRAPHY: SCHOOL PROJECT - JENNIFER O'CONNOR

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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

A One-Dimensional Analysis of Real and Complex Turbulence and the Maxwell Set for the Stochastic Burgers Equation
Aubrey Truman, professor of mathematics, University of Wales Swansea,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

What Spectra Can Non-Selfadjoint Sturm-Liouville Operators Have?
Rostyslav Hryniv, Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lviv, Ukraine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Combining Embryological, Genomic, and Bioinformatics Approaches to Study Neural Induction in the Ascidian, Ciona Intestinalis
Dr. Patrick LeMaire, department of cognitive psychology and development/aging psychology, University of Provence,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Taylor Glacier, Antarctica
Kurt Cuffey, professor of geography, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Stochastic Gravitational Waves from the End of Inflation
Eugene Lim, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Spectroscopic and Computational Insights into the Biosynthesis and Reactivity of Coenzyme B12
Thomas C. Brunold, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium

Chemical Transformations in Nanocrystals
Paul Alivisatos, Chancellor's Professor, department of chemistry and materials science, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

Hardy Inequalities for Simply Connected Planar Domains
Alexander Sobolev, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Birmingham,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Complex Moment Problem and Direct and Inverse Spectral Problems for the Block Jacobi Type Bounded Normal Matrices
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

One-and-a-Half Quantum de Finetti Theorems
Matthias Christandl, postdoctoral researcher and college research fellow, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Numerical Simulations of Biological Locomotion in Fluids in a Moderate Reynolds Number Regime
Jeff Eldredge, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Hunting Correlation Patterns in the CMB Anisotropy
Tarun Souradeep, assistant professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Small Displacements, Intriguing Fluctuations: Statistical Mechanics of the Actin Cytoskeleton
Phillip Geissler, assistant professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
Peter Sarnak, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
7:30pm 8:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Lecture

Huntington Library
Making Weird and Beautiful Planetary Systems
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
3:40pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Coming Out of the Dark: Using Genomics to Shed Light on the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
Amy Schaefer, research scientist, department of microbiology, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Circumstellar Disks and their Clues for Planet Formation
Dr. Alycia Weinberger, department of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
Peter Sarnak, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

The Response to Nicotine: From Quantum Mechanics to Mouse Behavior
Henry Lester, Bren Professor of Biology, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology
Nathan S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Single Spin Detection by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
Dan Rugar, IBM Almaden Research Center,
4:45pm 6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Using Wind to Build the Megaliths of Ancient Egypt"

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Maureen Clemmons, President, Transformations,
Friday, April 7th, 2006
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Periodic Schur Process and Cylindric Partitions
Alexei Borodin, Caltech,
12:00pm 11:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

What Can Prehistoric Easter Island Teach Modern America about Sustainability?
Ashley Jones, Caltech,
2:30pm 4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Global Methods for High-Dimensional Datasets
4:00pm 5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Descartes' Attempt (in the Regulae) to Base the Certainty of Algebra on Mental Vision
Hendrik Bos, Professor of History of Mathematics, Utrecht University, Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Development of Ru Catalysts for the Preparation of Hindered Olefins by Ring-Closing Metathesis
Katie Campbell, postdoctoral scholar, department of chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

Break-Out from the Hot CNO Cycles, the Trigger of X-ray Bursts
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar

Power Supply Integrity: Integrated Circuit Design with Systems Techniques
Elad Alon, doctoral candidate, department of electrical engineering, Stanford University,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
Peter Sarnak, professor of mathematics, Princeton University,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
2:00pm 4:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

The Weather Makers: How Humans Are Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Dr. Tim Flannery, environmental scientist, explorer, and conservationist,
Monday, April 10th, 2006
8:00am 4/12 2:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium

Winnett Lounge
Biological Large-Scale Integration (BioLSI-2)
Michael Roukes, professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering, and director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech,
3:00pm 3:55pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Special Seminar

Machine Learning Reductions
John Langford, research assistant professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Electrochemical Modeling and Impedance Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Professor Wolfgang Bessler, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Germany,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture

The Quantum Internet: How Einstein's Objection to Quantum Mechanics Leads to a Whole New Field in Physics
James Chin-Wen Chou, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

The Stardust Mission —Analyzing Samples from the Edge of the Solar System
Don Brownlee, professor of astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Baryon Number Violation and a Hidden Higgs
Professor David Kaplan, department of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

What a Difference One Electron Makes: Synthetic Strategies to Achieve Low-Coordinate Early-Transition Metal Complexes Bearing Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds
Daniel J. Mindiola, assistant professor of chemistry, Indiana University,
4:15pm 5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006