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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

(Non)linear Schrodinger Equation Outside Convex Obstacles
1:15pm 2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence
Bogdan Stefanski, City U. London,
1:30pm 3:00pm
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How to Maximize your Post Doc Experience

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Planet Formation at Wide Separations
Ruth Murray-Clay, Harvard CfA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences & Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture

Thermo TRP ion channels: what garlic, mint, and wasabi tell us about sensing temperature and pain
Ardem Patapoutian, Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Changing Visions of the Last Supper in Early Modern Europe
Anthony Grafton, Professor of History, Princeton University,
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Informing Climate and Other Contentious Decisions Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty
Robert Lempert, Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

How neurotransmitter release is synchronized at synapses
James Rothman, Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Visualizing drug transport in vivo: developing mechanistic simulations for drug design
Greg Thurber, NIH Career Development Fellow, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Semianr

Digital Image Correlation – A Revolution in Experimental Mechanics
Phillip Reu, Sandia Laboratories,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

The Gravitational Waves and the Search: Into the Future
Rana Adhikari, Assistant Professor of Physics, LIGO, Caltech,
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Consistent truncation of d=11 supergravity on AdS_4 x S^7
Krzysztof Pilch, USC,
1:15pm 2:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Detecting Majorana fermions at the topological superconductor surface
Suk Bum Chung, Dr., Condensed Matter Group , Stanford University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Aerospace Structural Scaling and Performance Metrics
Martin Mikulas, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Aerospace,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Oxidative Chemistry of Dioxo-Osmium Complexes
Hema Karumadasa, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,
6:00pm 10:00pm
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Monday, February 6th, 2012
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Discovery and Preclinical Development of Cancer Therapeutic Enzymes and Antibodies
George Georgiou, Prof. , Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Magnetotransport and Coulomb Drag in Graphene Bilayers
Emanuel Tutuc, Asssistant Professor , Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry

Unusual Reactivity of 2- and 3-Coordinate Nickel: Chemistry Outside the Square Plane
Gregory L. Hillhouse, professor of chemistry, the University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on Deep Evolution
Norman Pace, Distinguished Professor of MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Compressive Sensing: Dynamics, Multichannel Sampling, and Parametric Estimation
Justin Romberg, Associate Professor , Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
10:30am 12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar

On Khovanov homology and the Fukaya categories of Hilbert schemes
Mohammed Abouzaid, MIT,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Smooth Direction Fields on Surfaces
Peter Schröder, Professor, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

The Structural Basis for Activation of Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductase
Amie Boal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar

Understanding RVB states with PEPS
David Perez-Garcia, Associate Professor, Mathematical Analysis, Complutense University of Madrid,
3:30pm 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

Jack Holt, Research Scientist, Institute for Geophysics, Univ. of Texas-Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Protein folding, environmental stress, and the inheritance of new phenotypes
Daniel Jarosz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

On the Size of the Nodal Sets of Solutions of Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

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Racial Gerrymandering in Texas: Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser, Professor of History and Social Science, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Controlling Light with Meta-Symmetries and Couplings
Boubacar Kante, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

The Nova Outburst: An Evolving Paradigm?
Robert Williams, STScI,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states
Max Metlitski, Dr., Kavli Institute for Theorethical Physics , University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group

Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations
Eric Kort, Postdoctoral Fellow, W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies, JPL/Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Single-walled aluminosilicate nanotubes: emerging materials for separations and renewable energy technology
Dun-Yen Kang, PhD candidate, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

On the diversity equivalence theorem
Joseph Boutros, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Using High-Order CFD Methods to Predict and Understand Complex Unsteady Flows
Antony Jameson, Thomas V. Jones Professor in the School of Engineering, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Black Holes Get Loud. And Bright.
Janna Levin, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Hollywood's First Wave of "Holocaust" Films: From Frank Sinatra to Anne Frank
Lawrence Baron, Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History, Department of History, San Diego State University,