Institute Calendar
June 2006
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
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10:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Crystal Chemistry of Anodes and Cathodes in Lithium Ion Batteries
Rachid Yazami,
visiting associate in materials science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Probing the Mysteries of Neutrinos with MINOS and NOvA
Caius Howcroft,
high energy physics group,
University of Cambridge,
8:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Modular Software and Modular Biology
Herbert Sauro,
assistant professor,
biochemical control systems, systems biology software tools, and network analysis,
Keck Graduate Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Conformation Design: Flexible Molecules with Defined Shape
Reinhard W. Hoffmann,
professor of chemistry,
University of Marburg, Germany,
2:30pm
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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
To Draw or to Calculate: Aristarchus's Problem and the Computational Practices of Greek Astronomy
Ido Yavetz,
assistant professor, The Cohn Institute for History of Science, Tel Aviv University,
and the Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in the History of Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Thermal Alkyl Transfer Reactions of Rhodium Porphyrin Complexes toward New Dehydrogenation Catalysts
Christopher Douglas,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Chen-Yu Liu,
assistant professor of physics,
Indiana University,
5:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
8:00am
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10:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Paterson Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yang/Lee Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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8:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Victory Bible Church Choir
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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8:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bourne/Schreiner Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Denton Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Garcia Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Synthesis Stemming from the Elemental Molecules Dinitrogen and Tetraphorphorus
Christopher C. Cummins,
professor of chemistry,
MIT,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Crawling Cells and Comet Tails
Julie Theriot,
associate professor of biochemistry and of microbiology and immunology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Wonderment for Idiots in Baroque Rome
Ingrid Rowland,
associate professor of art history,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
The Hidden Layer of Noncoding RNA in the Evolution and Development of Complex Organisms
Professor John Mattick,
Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland, Australia,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Fiber Optics Protocols for Quantum Communication
Serge Massar,
University of Brussels,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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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
How Composition, Phase, and Morphology Control the Rates of Reactions in Atmospheric Organic Particles
Geoffrey D. Smith,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
OSIRIS: First Results from the Keck Telescope
James Larkin,
professor of astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar—RESCHEDULED to 4:00 p.m.
Organic Redox Reactions: A New Strategy for Chemical Ligation and Asymmetric NHC-Catalyzed Couplings
Professor Jeffrey W. Bode,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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Herbert Newby McCoy Award Seminar, Session I
Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Diazonamide A
Ian K. Mangion,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Herbert Newby McCoy Award Seminar, Session II
From Racehorse Doping to Enantioselective Catalysis: The Unique Role of Sparteine in Palladium-Catalyzed Alcohol Oxidation
Raissa M. Trend,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
10:00am
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
10:00am
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11:30am
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Architectural Tour of Campus: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event
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- Public Event
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Barajas Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Chemo- and Stereoselective Olefin Metathesis in Small Molecule Synthesis
Timothy Funk,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Investigations of Transition Metal Catalyzed CH Bond Functionalization
Melanie S. Sanford,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Michigan,
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Molecular Heat Engines and Their Similarity to Logical Circuits
Dominik Janzing,
postdoctoral researcher,
University of Karlsruhe, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The Evidence for Astrophysical Black Holes
Jean-Pierre Lasota,
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,
CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,