Institute Calendar
Fall 2007-2008
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
mRNA Display Selection Using a Combinatorial 10FnIII Protein Library for Detection and Modulation of Cellular Processes
C. Anders Olson,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
10:30am
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11:45am
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Special Seminar in Computer Science
Equilibrium Purchasing Behavior When Operational Outcomes Impact Consumer Utility
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Local Coordinates via Heat Kernels or Eigenfunctions
Raanan Schul,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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7:30pm
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Seismological Lab & Media Center Tour: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event
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- Public Event
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Apparent North-South Symmetry of Climate Variatility at Orbital Time-Scales
Peter John Huybers,
assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Ultra-Compact Integrated Wavelength Demultiplexers and Spectrometers Using Photonic Crystal Structures
Ali Adibi,
associate professor of optics and photonics,
Georgia Tech University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Protoplanetary Disks: Analogs of the Early Solar System
David Wilner,
astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
and lecturer in astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
8:30am
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4:00pm
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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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Biomedical Imaging Group
Can Random Diffusion Be Used to Predict the Future?
Brian Ross,
professor of radiology and professor of biological chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Exploring Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways for Novel Enzymes and Useful Biocatalysts
Yi Tang,
assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Origin and Formation of Diamonds in the Upper Mantle: Insights from Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Pierre Cartigny,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Scalable Quantum Networks with Atoms and Photons
H. Jeff Kimble,
William L. Valentine Professor and professor of physics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:00pm
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12/7
8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
"CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays"
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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11:45am
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Symmetries in String Theory
Michael Dine,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:30pm
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6:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Verifying Multimode Entanglement
Pavel Lougovski,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
University of Oregon,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Simulations on the Dynamics of Metal and Metal Oxide Surface Catalysis Using the ReaxFF Reactive Force Field
Adri van Duin,
senior research fellow in materials science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
"CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays"
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Engineering Light-Gated Ion Channels for the Control of Neuronal Firing and Behavior
Ehud Isacoff,
professor of neurobiology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computational Molecular Biology Seminar
Hippocampal Contributions to Aging Memory
Carol Barnes,
professor in cognition and neural systems,
University of Arizona,
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Renormalization and Galois Symmetries
Matilde Marcolli,
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Novel Methods for Force-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Mark Butler,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Applications of Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Alkylation in Natural Products Total Synthesis
Ryan McFadden,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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
Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
Andrea Ghez,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—CANCELLED
B. Alan Wallace,
founder and president,
Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Posttranslational Modification in Huntington's Disease and Therapeutic Implications
Leslie Thompson,
associate professor of science,
department of psychiatry,
UC Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
8:00am
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12/14
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Using Unnatural Amino Acids
Joanne Xiu,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Comments on the Holomorphic Anomaly for Closed and Open Topological Strings
Andy Neitzke,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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