Institute Calendar
May 2006
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Raul Jimenez,
professor of physics and astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Far-from-Equilibrium Assembly of Soft Materials
David R. Reichman,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Discovery Potential of the Higgs Boson at CMS in Four Lepton Final State
David Futyan,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America
Ernesto Calvo,
assistant professor of political science,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
7:30am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Some Mathematical Issues behind Quasi-Static Evolution in Brittle Fracture
Christopher Larsen,
associate professor of mathematical sciences,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
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
Do We Understand the Water Vapor Feedback on Climate Change?
Steven Sherwood,
associate professor of geology and geophysics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Infrared Luminous Galaxies at z~2
Lin Yan,
Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Applications of Chemical Synthesis to the Identification of New Antibiotics, Cancer Cell-Growth Inhibitors and Antiproliferative Pathways
Andrew G. Myers,
professor of chemistry,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Implementation in Nash Equilibria of Rate Allocation Problems in Networks
Tudor Mihai Stoenescu,
postdoctoral scholar in information science and technology,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Understanding the Relationship between Aerosols and Clouds
Tracey Rissman,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Electron Transfer at DNA-Modified Electrodes
Donato M. Ceres,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Using Artificial Evolution to Study Physical Phenomena
Michele Milano,
postdoctoral scholar in aeronautics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Spanning the Divide between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis: Immobilized Organometallic Catalysts as Model Systems and Mechanistic Probes
Christopher W. Jones,
associate professor,
chemical and biomolecular engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Non-Stoichiometry
James A. Ibers,
professor of chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
Donald Marolf,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Your Energy, Your Atmosphere, Your Life, Your Choice
Barry Butler,
Butler Sun Solutions,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar ~ RESCHEDULED
Multivariate Interpolation Decoding beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Kepler's Archetypal Cosmology and Arguments for the Copernican Theory
Noel Swerdlow,
professor of history and professor of astronomy and astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Surface Chemistry of GaAs Nanocrystals
Matthew Traub,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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10:30pm
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5:00am
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Saturday, May 20th, 2006
8:15am
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5:15pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
9:00am
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Asymptotic Analysis of Strongly Nonlinear Langmuir Circulation and Rayleigh-Benard Convection
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Studies of Ambient and Laboratory Aerosol Size Distribution and Hygroscopicity
Varuntida Varutbangkul,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A High-Resolution Search for Dark Matter
Leanne Duffy,
graduate research assistant,
department of physics,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Computing at the Nanoscale
R. Stanley Williams,
senior HP fellow and director of the Quantum Science Research group,
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Scanning Activity Gravimetric Analysis (SAGA) of Aqueous Polyethylene Oxide
Adam Olsen,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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11:30am
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
I prefer the title "Mad Scientist": Reflections on Building an Industrial Laboratory for Fundamental Research in the Age of Short-Term Management
R. Stanley Williams,
senior HP fellow and director of the Quantum Science Research group,
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Reversible Universal Quantum Computation within Translation Invariant Systems
Karl Vollbrecht,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Signaling and Transcriptional Controls during Patterning and Tissue Development in the Drosophila Mesoderm
Dr. Manfred Frasch,
Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
MUON Colliders
Amit Klier,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Direct Determination of Structural Dynamics of Molecular Excited States
Jonathan Feenstra,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?: An Experimental Approach
Daniel Posner,
associate professor of political science,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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