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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
9:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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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,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:15pm
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11:00pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
8:00am
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4/12
2:00pm
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8:00am
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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,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
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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
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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
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
On the Distribution of Eigenvalues in Large Random Matrices
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:15pm
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11:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12:30pm
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10:00am
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1:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Studying the BCX-BEC Crossover Regime with a Fermi Gas of ^{40}K Atoms
Cindy Regal,
postdoctoral researcher,
JILA, University of Colorado,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Advances in Low-Dimensional Modeling of Fluids: Cavities, Channels, and Airfoils
Clarence Rowley,
assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Princeton University,
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
Supernova Dust Under a Microscope
Dr. Larry Nittler,
department of terrestrial magnetism,
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Adult Stem-Cell Regulation in the Drosophila Gastrointestinal Tract
Dr. Craig Micchelli,
Department of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
DO Results for B_s Mixing
Braden Abbott,
assistant professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Resources and Strategies South of the Sahara: Long-Term Dynamics of African Economic Development, 1500–2000
Gareth Austin,
senior lecturer,
economic history department,
London School of Economics,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:15pm
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11:50pm
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Modulation of Magnetic Properties in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents and Magnetic Materials
Joseph A. Duimstra,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Land Use and Climate Change
Professor Eugenia Kalnay,
department of meteorology,
University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ultraprecise Photometry from Space: From Stellar Cores to Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Jaymie Mark Matthews,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Approaches to Optical, Electronic, Magnetic, and Structural Materials through Control of Nanoscale Self-Organization
Sarah Tolbert,
associate professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Watson Lecture Dinner: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event
See event detail for location
- Public Event
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:50pm
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
8:45am
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6:30pm
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8:45am
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6:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Observation of High-Temperature Superfluidity in a Gas of Fermionic Atoms
Martin Zwierlein,
graduate student in physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,