Institute Calendar
Fall 2008-2009
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
8:30am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Number Theory
Matilde Marcolli,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate
Jennifer Lotz,
research fellow,
National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Novel Correlated Electron Phenomena in Filled Skutterudite Compounds
M. Brian Maple,
professor of physics,
Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The British Intercolonial Slave Trade in the Development of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Gregory O'Malley,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in History,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Basic Problems and Plans of Environment Protect in China
Da Yang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Bayesian Decision Making with Probabilistic Population Codes
Alexandre Pouget,
associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and bioengineering,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Colloidal Alphabet Soup: Production, Manipulation, and Assembly of Custom-Shaped Colloids
Thomas Mason,
associate professor and John McTague Chair,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Visual Sensorimotor System that Drives Rapid Adaptive Camouflage and Communication in Cephalopods
Roger Hanlon,
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Earthquake Recurrence and Long-Term Segmentation Near the Boundary of the 2004 and 2005 Sunda Megathrust Ruptures
Aron Meltzner,
graduate student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic Liquid Crystals
Steve Kivelson,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
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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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills
Emery Sokatchev,
Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Michael Lilly,
Sandia National Laboratories,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Hardness of Approximation Results for Network Formation Games (Techniques from Theoretical Computer Science for Problems in Revealed Preference)
Shankar Kalyanaraman,
graduate student in engineering and applied science,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Natural Product Synthesis and New Synthetic Methods
Jon T. Njardarson,
assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Gravity in the Tropics: The Seconds Pendulum and Global Science, 1672–1726
Nicholas Dew,
assistant professor of history,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Forays Into the Total Synthesis of Zoanthenol: Intriguing Patterns of Reactivity and Selectivity
Jennifer Stockdill,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Siraki Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:30pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New High-Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar
Sasha Hinkley,
graduate student in astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
What Can We Learn About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?
Jack W. Szostak,
professor of genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
9:30am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Mohammad Amin,
visiting scholar,
Institute for Quantum Information,
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
Galaxy Evolution over the Last Two-Thirds of Cosmic Time
Sandra Faber,
professor of astronomy and astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics
Szabolcs Marka,
assistant professor of physics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Nicotinic Control of Glutamate Synapse Formation
Darwin Berg,
professor of biology,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
8:00am
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12/12
5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena
Michael Mulligan,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
In Vivo Incorporation of Multiple Unnatural Amino Acids
Erik Rodriguez,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structure and Inhibition of Enzymes that Assemble Lipopolysaccharide Endotoxins: Potent Bacterial Activators of Innate Immunity
Christian Raetz,
professor of biochemistry,
Duke University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Experimental Evidence for Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes Without UV-Photolysis (or Glow Discharge)
Pierre Cartigny,
professor,
Laboratory of Stable Isotope Geochemistry,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
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
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe
Friday, December 12th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass
Andrew Waldron,
professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Mohamed Mostagir,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Engineering Cyanovirin-N for Enhanced Viral Neutralization
Jennifer Keeffe,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,