Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Monday, September 28th, 2009
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, September 28th, 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
The Unique Composition of Brain Proteasomes and Their Roles in Synaptic Plasticity and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Hwan-Ching (Bruce) Tai,
graduate student in chemistry,
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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Thesis Seminar
Pure-Silica Zeolite Thin Films and Powders for Low-k Applications
Heather Hunt,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
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
The Wiggle Z Dark Energy Survey—66 % Done
Karl Glazebrook,
professor of astronomy,
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Ancestral and Derived Roles of the Snail/Scratch Superfamily in Embryonic Development and Adult Pathologies
Angela Nieto Toledano,
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alcante, Spain,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Ultracold Collisions in an Optically Trapped Gas of Polar Molecules
Kang-Kuen Ni,
graduate student,
JILA research institute,
Unviersity of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Aqueous Environments During Mars's First Billion Years: Insights from Infrared Spectroscopy
Bethany Ehlmann,
planetary geoscience,
Brown University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Infrared Interferometry and the Evolution of Circumstellar Disks
Rachel Akeson,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Hwayeon Song,
postdoctoral research associate,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Studying the Dark Universe with Galaxy Clustering
John Peacock,
professor of cosmology and head of the Institute for Astronomy,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dzhinanyan/Khachatrain Wedding Photography
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multiscale Simulations Using Particles
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Millikan Visiting Professor,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Glowe Party (ATHENAEUM)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
8:00am
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kasumyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Petrosian/Alekyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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10/4
1:00am
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lee/Feng Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Detecting Low-Mass Substructure via Gravitational Imaging
Simna Vegetti,
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Integrated Stratigraphic and Geochronologic Approach to Understanding the Geologic History of the Himalaya: Limitations of the Lithotectonic Concept
Paul Myrow,
professor of geology,
Colorado College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Single-Molecule Dynamics of Nanocatalysis and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Peng Chen,
assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Self-Assembly of DNA into Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Shapes
William Shih,
assistant professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Development of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S.
Mitchell Soderberg,
postdoctoral scholar in high energy neutrino physics,
Yale University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Towards a New Understanding of Star Formation in Galaxies
Pavel Kroupa,
professor of astronomy,
Universitaet Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Schroedinger's Mirrors—Extending Quantum Experiments Using Massive Mechanical Resonators
Markus Aspelmeyer,
professor of physics ,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
See event detail for location
Effective Field Theory Methods for Gravitational Binaries
Chad Galley,
postdoctoral research in physics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring Electron Transfer: From Photochemistry to Energy Conversion
Troy Van Voorhis,
associate professor of chemistry,
MIT,