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Monday, May 1st, 2006
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Upper Ocean Heat and Tropical Cyclones
Claudia Pasquero,
senior research fellow in oceanography,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Pentaquarks and Other Results from the STAR Experiment
Sevil Salur,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Tuning the Reactivity of Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Reactive Nitrides and Stable Carbides
Marc J. A. Johnson,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Nanoshells: From Plasmon Physics to Cancer Therapy
Naomi Halas,
professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of chemistry,
Rice University,
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
9:00am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices and Superlattices
Mason Porter,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Scaling Properties of Fracture Surfaces
Elisabeth Bouchaud,
head of the division of physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces,
Commissariat al'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France,
4:15pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
Weighted Orbital Integrals and the Langland Program
James Arthur,
professor of mathematics,
University of Toronto,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Lecture
Huntington Library
Colliding Galaxies and Their Cosmic Fireworks
Dr. François Schweizer,
Carnegie Observatories,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
8:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Grand Ensembles of Operators and Randelette Expansions in Spectral Theory
Victor Chulaevsky,
department of mathematics,
Université de Reims, France,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Intercontinental Transport of Air Pollutants and Its Implications
Terry J. Keating,
office of air and radiation,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hitting the Millisecond Pulsar Jackpot with the GBT
Scott Ransom,
assistant astronomer,
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Compressive Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging
David Brady,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Duke University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
10:00am
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2:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Nanostructured Probes for RNA Detection in Living Cells
Gang Bao,
professor of biomedical engineering,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Plasmas for Functionalizing Nooks and Crannies in Polymers at Low and High Pressure: High-Value Biocompatibility Using Commodity Materials
Mark J. Kushner,
dean of the College of Engineering,
Iowa State University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
What Controls Landscape Scale? Connecting Models and Morphology
Taylor Perron,
graduate student,
department of earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
How to Represent Movie Stars in the Human Brain
Christof Koch,
Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology,
and professor of computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
9:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Zhiqin Lu,
associate professor of differential geometry,
UC Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Careers in Public Service for ESE PhDs—Informal Discussion
Terry Keating,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Catriona Rogers,
Environmental Protection Agency,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electron Transfer Kinetics in the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
Anthony Fitch,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Electric Dipole Moments in Storage Ring: The Next Generation of Hadronic EDM Experiments
Dr. Yannis Semertzidis,
physics department,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
8:00am
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Han Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:45pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Serpi Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
1:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture - NOTE SPEAKER/TOPIC CHANGE
DeCoding the Da Vinci Code, the Gospel of Judas and Other Biblical Mysteries
Tim Callahan,
Skeptic magazine religion editor and author,
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Novel Reactivity at Iron Centers Supported by Poly(phosphino)borate Ligands
Christine Thomas,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Burning of the Biosphere: Fire and Its Role in the Earth System
James T. Randerson,
associate professor,
department of earth system science,
UC Irvine,