Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Friday, December 4th, 2009
11:00am
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11:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Ayan Mukhopadhyay,
Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Sizing Aerosol Particles Between One and Three Nanometers
Nicholas Brunelli,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Aeronautics at Low Reynolds Number
Geoff Spedding,
professor in aerospace and mechanical engineering,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interactions between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 during Slow-wave Sleep
Ming Gu,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
High-order Accurate Solution of Acoustic-elastic Interface Problems on Adapted Meshes Using a Discontinuous Galerkin Method
Lucas Wilcox,
Research Associate,
Center for Computational Geosciences and Optimization,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies of Organolithium Reactivity by Rapid-Injection NMR and Efforts Toward an Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide
Amanda C. Jones,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
DEAP/CLEAN: Detecting Dark Matter with Liquid Argon (and Neon)
Hugh Lippincott,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
Elliott Sober,
professor of philosophy,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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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"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface
Michael Abrams,
group supervisor,
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
8:00am
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12/8
5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thokel/Rich Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Andreasyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Ms. Elaine Hung-Chang (Approved)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Ralph Engagment/Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Donald Prothero,
professor of geology and paleontology,
Occidental College,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Synthetic, Programmable Replicators
Andrew Ellington,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Development and Applications of Quantum Monte Carlo
Daniel Fisher,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
LISA Pathfinder: The Experiment, and the Road to LISA
Stefano Vitale,
professor of physics,
University of Trento, Italy,
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
Understanding Dark Energy
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,
graduate student researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
graduate student,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Next Generation Large-Scale Chronically Implantable Precision Motorized Microdrive Arrays for Freely Behaving Animals
Jun Yamamoto,
professor of brain cognitive science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designing Functional Metalloproteins: Beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere
Yi Lu,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Modeling and Representing: An Artefactual Approach to Model-based Representation
Tarja Knuuttila,
visiting associate in philosophy,
Caltech,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Algorithms for Nucleic Acid Sequence Design
Joseph N. Zadeh,
graduate student in bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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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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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Photonic Non-equilibrium Quantum Transport in a Nonlinear Medium
Mohammad Hafezi,
postdoctoral scholar,
University of Maryland,
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
What We Have Learned from the Antennae Galaxies
Brad Whitmore,
Space Telescope Science Institute ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Research on a New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices
Amnon Yariv,
Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Nanoscopic Imaging of Biomolecules and Cells
Xiaowei Zhuang,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Large Intergenic Non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs): From Discovery to Mechanism
John Rinn,
assistant professor of pathology,
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
National Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive #12: A Scientific and Technical Challenge in the 21st Century
Robert Nelson,
scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Part I—cancelled
Discovery of Lanifanib: An Angiogenesis Inhibitor for Cancer Treatment
Yujia Dai,
Doctor,
Cancer Research,
Abbott Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Part II—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Keith Fagnou,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Ottawa,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Maps, Connections and In-vivo Imaging in the Monkey Brain
Kadharbatcha Saleem,
researcher,
National Institute of Mental Health,
7:00pm
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11:30pm
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
In-silico Truth and Beauty of Biological Systems: An Engineer's Perspective
Petros Koumoutsakos,
chair of computational science, ETH-Zurich,
and Millikan Visiting Professor of Aeronautics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Connectivity of the Primate Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dirk Neumann,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Photochemical and Dynamics Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions of Carbon Dioxide
Laurence Yeung,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neuroeconomics of Social Learning and Decision Making
Michael Platt,
professor of neurobiology and evolutionary anthropology,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
The Slapdown Phase in High Acceleration Records of Large Earthquakes
Masumi Yamada,
assistant professor,
Earthquake Hazards Division, DPRI,
Kyoto University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Larry Zweifel,
postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Diamond Formation in 'Deep Mantle' Dehydration Zones
Ben Harte,
professor of geosciences,
University of Edinburgh,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
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
Topic to be announced.
Clifford Cheung,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vartanians Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography