Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Dynamically Corrected Gates
Kaveh Khodjasteh,
Dartmouth College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
'The Deadly Sweet Tooth' and Other Stories about Aging in C. elegans
Cynthia Kenyon,
American Cancer Society Professor,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Ending Chronic Homelessness in Southern California
Gary Blasi,
professor of law,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Scattering for CMV Matrices and the Strong Szego Theorem
Alexander Kheifets,
associate professor of mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell,
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
8:00am
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11/27
5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
8:00am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Megerian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Baghdasarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Luis Reyes,
research fellow,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Infrared Spectroscopy of Correlated Electron Matter at the Nanoscale
Dimitri N. Basov,
professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Antimatter Production, Trapping and Antimatter Plasmas
Joel Fajans,
professor of physics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Knowledge Is Power but Ignorance is Bliss: An Introduction to Asynchronous Logic
Alain Martin,
professor of computer science,
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
Investigating the Evolution of Low Mass Galaxies
Liese van Zee,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Dynamics at Conical Intersections
Stuart C. Althorpe,
reader in theoretical chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geobiology Seminar
Getting a Sense of Direction: Integration of Multiple Cues for Self-Motion Perception
Dora Angelaki,
professor of neurobiology,
University of Washington in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Gaussian Free Field, Conformal Field Theory, and Schramm-Loewner Evolution
Nam-Gyu Kang,
Olga Taussky and Joh Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Crystallization of a Racemic Mixture: Which Will It Be—An Achiral Racemic Compound Versus True or False Conglomerates of Chiral Crystals?
Robert Glaser,
professor of chemistry,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emulation of a Quantum Spin using a Superconducting Phase Qudit
Matthew Neeley,
graduate student,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Carnegie Supernova and Hubble Projects
Wendy Freedman,
the Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Asian Monsoon Anticyclone, Pollution Near the Tropopause and Transport to the Stratosphere
Bill Randel,
director,
Atmospheric Chemistry Division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Using Occam's Razor in a Bar Fight: Simple Conclusions from Complex Reactions
Matthew P. Meyer,
assistant professor,
School of Natural Sciences,
UC Merced,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Nanoscopy with Focused Light
Stefan Hell,
scientific member of the Max Planck Society and a director,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on Teaching in Chemistry
Refining Organic Chemistry Education
Haim Weizman,
professor of chemical education and bioorganic chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Regulation of Secretory and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Ramanujan Hegde, M.D.,
senior investigator,
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanoparticles in Biology: Engineering the Interface
Vincent Rotello,
professor of chemistry,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Earth's Deglacial "Rhythms": Similarities and Changes Through the Eons
Tim Raub,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Criticality: From Antiferromagnets to the Cuprate Superconductors
Subir Sachdev,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface
Michael Abrams,
group supervisor,
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),
JPL,
Friday, December 4th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Copper and Iron Complexes with Unusual Coordination Geometries Enforced by Phosphine Chelates
Neal Mankad,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,