Institute Calendar
Fall 2008-2009
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
3:30pm
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6:15pm
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7:15pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Line Emission in Cooling Flow Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Louise Edwards,
postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Actin Crazy! Creation and Destruction of Cytoskeletal Networks
R. Dyche Mullins,
associate professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Controls on Precipitation and Aridity Throughout Martian History
Mark Richardson,
assistant professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Dark Top
David Poland,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Harvard University ,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:45pm
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10:45pm
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
8:30am
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4:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Daniel Lidar,
associate professor,
Department of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics,
USC,
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
Topic to be announced.
Zoltan Haiman,
associate professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pushing, Pulling, and Squeezing Proteins: Theory and Computer Simulations of Protein Translocation
Dmitrii E. Makarov,
associate professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Rho-actin-SRF Signal Pathway: Mechanisms and Role in Metastasis
Richard Treisman,
Transcription Laboratory,
London Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Structure of the Proton from Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions
Stephen Trentalange,
research associate in physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spontaneously Broken Hidden Gauge Symmetries
Devin Walker,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
8:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Kooman's Theorem and Point Perturbation
Manwah Lilian Wong,
graduate student in mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Making Galaxies on Supercomputers; One Star at a Time
Tom Abel,
associate professor of physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights on Redox Cycling and Microbial Function with in Situ Voltammetry
Greg Druschel,
assistant professor of geology,
University of Vermont,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Polar Oxide Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Functional Properties
P. Shiv Halasyamani,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Houston,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
8:00am
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12/5
5:00pm
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8:00am
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8:45am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lake Baikal: The Blue Eye of Siberia
Kaitlyn Lucey,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Bachelor of Science in Business Program
See event detail for location
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
In Vitro Transcriptional Circuits: Design, Dynamics, and Robustness
Erik Winfree,
associate professor of computer science, computation and neural systems, and bioengineering,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:30pm
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Beckman Institute Seminar
Mining Experimental Data for Dynamical Invariants—From Cognitive Robotics to Computational Biology
Hod Lipson,
associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and computing and information science,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
A Normative View on Learning
Konrad Koering,
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Genhong Cheng,
professor,
Department of Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Investigating C and N Metabolism in the Planktonic Microbial Community of the Deep Ocean
Roberta Hansman,
postdoctoral scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Status of Prospects of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
Niki Saoulidou,
Wilson Fellow,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Four-Dimensional Structure of String Compactifications
Gonzalo Torroba,
graduate student in high energy theory,
Rutgers University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Novel Quantum Phases in Orbital Systems with Cold Atom Optical Lattices
Congjun Wu,
assistant professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Closed-Loop Control of Turbulent Flows
Mark Glauser,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Syracuse University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Trapping Protein Structures with Co(III) Complexes
Matthew Hartings,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Precision Spectroscopy in Fr and Rb for Studies of the Electroweak Interaction in Atomic Systems
Adrian Galvan,
resident graduate assistant is physics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Traveling Wave Silicon Integrated Circuits for High-Speed Communications
James Buckwalter,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
UC San Diego,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
8:30am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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