Institute Calendar
Fall 2008-2009
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science
Robert Park,
professor of physics ,
University of Maryland,
6:15pm
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7:15pm
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
6:00am
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11:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Computing Reionization with the Moments of the Transfer Equation: First Results on Topology
Kristian Finlator,
graduate assistant/associate in astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Anesthesia: A Tool for the Study of Consciousness and Cognition
Mike Alkire,
associate professor of anesthesiology and perioperative care fellow,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Searches for Subgravitational Forces
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
9:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Nonlinear Polymeric Architectures via Olefin Metathesis
Irina Gorodetskaya,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Understanding Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Help of Gravitational Waves
Christian Ott,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics including relativity,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Strongly Interacting Electrons in Chemistry
Garnet K.-L. Chan,
assistant professor,
department of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Olfaction Targeted
Peter Mombaerts,
professor of molecular neurogenetics,
Max-Planck Institute for Biophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Antineutrinos in Minos
Alex Himmel,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
6:00am
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11/30
10:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Hyperbolic Hypergeometric Functions
Fokko van de Bult,
Bateman Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
1:15pm
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2:15pm
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Thesis Seminar
Investigations into the Requirements for Homogeneous Platinum- and Iridium-Catalyzed Oxidative C-H Bond Functionalization
David Weinberg,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
8:00am
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11/28
5:00pm
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9:00am
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11/28
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
12:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Family Portrait Photography on Campus: Shaklan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Panosyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sanchez Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
6:15pm
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7:15pm
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
9:30am
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10:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Electrical Detection of DNA Binding Proteins
Alon Gorodetsky,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
New Strategies and Technologies for Gene and Cell Therapy
Richard C. Mulligan,
professor of genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
New, Fast and Effective Algorithms for Imaging, Compressed Sensing and Related Problems, with Applications
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Detection of z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields
Jeff Cooke,
postdoctoral fellow in cosmology,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Great Mass Extinction—A Sudden Event or a Slow Moving Train-Wreck?
Roger Summons,
faculty member in geology and geochemistry, Caltech, and professor of geobiology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designed Photoactive Metal Nitrosyls for Site-specific NO Delivery
Pradip Mascharak,
professor of chemistry,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Control and Flexibility
Daniela Schiller,
postdoctoral fellow in neural science and psychology,
New York University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
8:00am
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12/16
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10:00am
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Research Spotlight for Staff
Studying Human Social Behavior
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Alexei Kitaev,
professor of theoretical physics and computer science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Multiresolution Particle Methods for Flow Simulations
Michael Bergdorf,
postdoctoral scholar,
ETH Zurich,
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Subaru Weak Lensing Study of Galaxy Clusters
Masahiro Takada,
Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning
Michelle L. Povinelli,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Free Energies and Mechanism of Chemical Reactions in Solution
Weitao Yang,
the Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Richard Mulligan,
professor of genetics,
Harvard University Cancer Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Towards Dense Reconstruction of Dense Neuropil
Winfried Denk,
Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics Search in Rare Tau Decays
Sanjay Swain,
research scientist in physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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