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Monday, May 1st, 2006
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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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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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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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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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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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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
10:00am
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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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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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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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12:45pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Serpi Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
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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,
3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
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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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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,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Results from Babar and on Cosmological Parameters from Weak Gravitational Lensing
Justin Albert,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Scaling Analysis of the Small-Scale Structure in Turbulence
8:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Gravity from Quantum Computation: Observational Consequences
Seth Lloyd,
professor of mechanical engineering,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Incorporating Molecular Understanding in Process Design
Martha Gallivan,
assistant professor of chemistry,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Effects of Feedback and Environment on the Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies
Yeshe Fenner,
postdoctoral fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Uncovering Design Rules for Light-Driven Molecular Devices from First Principles Dynamics
Todd J. Martinez,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Optimal Sobolev Regularity of a Class of Fourier Integral
Malabika Pramanik,
senior research fellow in mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Decisions, Decisions: The Ellsberg Paradox and the Neural Foundations of Decision Making under Uncertainty
Ming Hsu,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis of Biologically Important N- and O-Heterocycles
Peter A. Jacobi,
professor of chemistry,
Dartmouth College,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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Thesis Seminar
Towards Atomic-Resolution Manipulation: Multi-Scale Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy Processes
Santiago Solares,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Repeated Decision Making and Online Optimization
Adam Tauman Kalai,
assistant professor,
Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Back-Action in Mesoscopic Physics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Aashish Clerk,
assistant professor of physics,
McGill University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Planetary Robotics: To Mars and Beyond
Dr. Ashley Stroupe,
staff engineer,
Mars Exploration Rovers Engineering Team,
JPL,
Brett Kennedy,
staff engineer,
Robotic Hardware Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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