Institute Calendar
Fall 2008-2009
Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Merck Lecture
Synthesis of Marine Polyketides as Promising Anticancer Agents
Ian Paterson,
professor of chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
What We Can Learn about the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies at Very Early Times from Current Observations
Rychard Bouwens,
UCO / Lick Observatory,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
James J. Heckman,
Nobel laureate in economics and the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics,
the University of Chicago,
4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Formality Theorems for Hochschild Complexes
Vasiliy Dolgushev,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UC Riverside,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
8:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Discovery of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Mutants for the Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids Into Proteins
Ismet Caglar Tanrikulu,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Simple Model of Subtropical Stratocumulus Cloud Feedbacks
Peter Caldwell,
postdoctoral researcher,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Imaging of Single Organic Molecules in Motion
Eiichi Nakamura,
professor of chemistry,
University of Tokyo,
4:30pm
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
8:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Low Energy-Use Design for the Building and Its Associated Laboratories
Eric Soladay,
Lead MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) Engineer for the Robinson building redesign,
Rumsey Engineering,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Ultrafiltration of Macromolecules through a Nanopore
Chi Wu,
professor of chemistry,
the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Insoluble Organic Matter in Carbonaceous Chondrites: A Probe to Study the Processes in the Early Solar System
Laurent Remusat,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dark Matters
Jonathan Feng,
professor of physics and astronomy, and Chancellor's Fellow,
UC Irvine,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
11:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Superconductors
Gary Horowitz,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
EnVE: A Consistent Hybrid Ensemble/Variational Estimation Strategy for Environmental Turbulent Flow Systems
Thomas R. Bewley,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Social Affective Neuroscience in Japan
Hidehiko Takahashi,
Department of Molecular Neuroimaging, clinical neuroimaging section,
National Institute of Radiological Sciences,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Quark Masses: An Environmental Impact Statement
Alejandro Jenkins,
research associate,
Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
C-H, C-C, and Si-H Bond Transformations with ϐ-Diiminate Pt Complexes
Nathan (Ned) West,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
8:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Successful Companies through Incubation: SoCal Incubators Serve the High-Tech Industry
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cheng Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
10:00am
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
8:00am
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
From Caltech to the Space Station and Back
Garrett Reisman,
astronaut,
NASA Space Center,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery from Shedding Light on Nerve Regeneration to Aiding in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy
Adela Ben-Yakar,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Science Behind the Great Southern California ShakeOut
Lucy Jones,
chief scientist,
U. S. Geological Survey, Pasadena,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electroweak Corrections Using Effective Field Theory: Applications to the LHC
Randall Kelley,
graduate student,
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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