Institute Calendar
April 2008
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
6:00am
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4/20
6:00pm
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8:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Structural Studies of the E. coli Methionine ABC Transporter MetNI and its Cognate Binding Protein MetQ
Neena S. Kadaba,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Physical Underpinnings of Privacy
Jean Christian Boileau,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Consumer Antibacterial Soaps: Effective or Just Risky
Allison Aiello,
Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Nanoparticle to Microparticle to Live Nerve Cell Tissue Aqueous Interfaces
Kenneth B. Eisenthal,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
8:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Programming Soft-materials in Engineered Systems: Merging Chemistry and Computation with Microfluidics
Manu Prakash,
research fellow,
Center for Bits and Atoms,
MIT,
10:00am
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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
Matrix Convexity and "One Line" Proofs of Some Celebrated Quantum Inequalities
Edward Effros,
professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Christopher Higgins,
postdoctoral fellow,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Symmetry and Simulation: How Geometry Affects Scientific Computing, from the Solar System to Your Microwave Oven
Ari Stern,
graduate student in applied and computational mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies
Aristotle Socrates,
postdoctoral researcher astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:15pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4/6
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Plasma Processing to Produce Silicon Nanocrystal Inks
Uwe Kortshagen,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor,
department of mechanical engineering,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Temperatures of The Earth's Deep Interior
Tom Ahrens,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
How to Catch a Gravitational Wave
Rana Adhikari,
assistant professor of physics,
LIGO,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
T-Folds and Generalized NS-NS Fluxes
Daniel Robbins,
postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences,
the University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Water Entry of Spinning Spheres with Hydrophobic/philic Surfaces
Alexandra Techet,
associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bacterial Spore Detection: Ionic Radii and Competitive Ion Effects on the Stability of Lanthanide-Based Receptor Sites
Morgan Cable,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thelen/McCulloch Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Chip-scale Atomic Magnetometers and Applications
John Kitching,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Membrane Spatial Organization and the Mechanics of Cellular Signal Transduction
Jay T. Groves,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mass-dependent and Mass-independent Isotopic Fractionations in the Solar System
Frederic Moynier,
assistant professor in isotopic cosmochemistry,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Peaks and Valleys: Searching for Low-Mass Hidden Sectors at the LHC and in Cosmology
Kathryn Zurek,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin at Madison,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
6:00am
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10:00pm
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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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Out-of-Equilibrium Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Ulrich Schollwock,
professor of physics,
Technical University of Aachen,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
Mechanical Engineering Education at MIT: Some Ongoing Experiments
Rohan Abeyaratne,
professor of mechanical engineering,
MIT,
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
Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Jason Kalirai,
postdoctoral fellow,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Pietro De Camilli,
professor of cell biology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Bosons, Dibosons
Andrew Askew,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Pistols! Treason! Murder!: A Multimedia Assassination
Jonathan Walker,
research fellow in history,
University of Sydney,