Institute Calendar
April 2006
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
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Bioengineering Seminar
How Growth Affects Locomotor Hydrodynamics in Zebrafish
Matthew McHenry,
assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Rheologic Controls on the Shape and Evolution of Subducted Lithosphere in the Upper Mantle
Magali Billen,
assistant professor of geophysics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronics and Optoelectronics with Single Carbon Nanotubes
Phaedon Avouris,
IBM Fellow and manager of nanometer scale science and technology,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Molecular Sieve Thin Film Technology: Current Status and Research Opportunities
Michael Tsapatsis,
professor of chemical engineering and materials science,
University of Minnesota,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Kirill Krasnov,
advanced fellow,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Nottingham,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Death by Gas Station: The Continuing Struggle to Reduce Air Pollution at 4,000 Stations
Laurin Tuleja,
South Coast Air Quality Management District,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Probing the Coordination Chemistry of Iron and Cobalt with New Amide-Phosphine Hybrid Ligands
Matthew Whited,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Searching for WIMPs with CDMS and MKIDs
Sunil Golwala,
assistant professor of physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
8:00am
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8:00am
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12:45pm
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2:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
9:00am
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Biophysics Lecture
Physics and the Life of a Virus
Robijn Bruinsma,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Evolutionary Transition from Anoxygenic to Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Robert E. Blankenship,
professor and chair,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Astrophysics at the South Pole: AMANDA and IceCube
Professor Albrecht Karle,
department of physics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Two Results on the Consistency of Local Density Matrices
Yi-Kai Liu,
graduate student in computer science,
UC San Diego,
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
Dwarf Galaxies, Stellar Halos, and Satellite Systems in a LCDM Universe
Kathryn Johnston,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Wesleyan University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Linking Stem Cells and Molecular Motors to Signaling and Neurodegenerative Disease
Larry Goldstein,
professor of cellular and molecular medicine, UC San Diego, and investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures
Timothy J. Groseclose,
professor of political science,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
12:00am
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11:59pm
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Approximation of Spectra of Schrodinger Operators
Anders Hansen,
department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Radio Galaxy Feedback and the Cooling Cores of Galaxy Clusters
Chris Reynolds,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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Complex Biological Systems Seminar
Model-Driven Discovery and the NF KappaB Signaling Network
Markus Covert,
postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Baltimore Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Increasing Concurrency Using EDGE Architectures
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam,
graduate student in computer science,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Selective Formations of C-O and C-C Bonds via Transition Metal Mediated Catalysis
Chulbom Lee,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Princeton University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Break the Silence Dinner: Reverend Susan Russell Speaks about Same-Sex Marriage
Reverend Susan Russell,
All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
An Engineering Analysis of Inflammation in Physiological Shock: The Auto-Digestion Hypothesis
Geert Schmid-Schoenbein,
professor of bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Simplicity in Biology
Dr. Uri Alon,
principal investigator,
Department of Physics of Complex Systems,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel,