Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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General Biology Seminar
Tipping the Redox Calance in Schizophrenia
Margarita Behrens,
staff scientist,
the Salk Institute,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 7th, 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
Normal Matrix Ensemble by Riemann-Hilbert Method
Seung-Yeop Lee,
Sherman Fairchild Research Fellow in Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
First Principles Investigations of DNA Nano-Structures
Tod Pascal,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Influence of the Sun on the Dynamically Coupled Ocean-Atmospher Climate System
Jerry Meehl,
research scientist,
climate and global dynamics division,
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Magnetic Stabilization of Metallic Crystals: How Quantum Mechanics Can Be Used to Engineer Magnetic Materials
Kevin Moore,
staff scientist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Geochemical Mechanisms of Biomineralization from Analysis of Deep-Sea and Laboratory Cultured Corals
Alexander Gagnon,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Proteasome Activation: Opening the Gate to Natures Molecule of Mass Destruction
Christopher Hill,
professor of biochemistry,
the University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Divisive Normalization and Value Representation in Parietal Decision Circuits
Kenway Louie,
postdoctoral fellow,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
OSL Dating as a Tool for Understanding Landscape Evolution and Dynamics: New Applications and Future Potential
Edward Rhodes,
professor of geology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
Sean Carroll,
senior research associate in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Identifying the True Catalyst in High Temperature Pd Catalyzed Heck and Suzuki Reactions
Christopher W. Jones,
professor,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
11:00am
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1:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Micron-scale Mechanical Characterization of Solid Interfaces
Shuman Xia,
postdoctoral scholar in aeronautics,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Development of Ultra Low Power Single Chip mmW CMOS Sensor and Communication Nodes
Joy Laskar,
chair in microelectronics and director, Georgia Electronic Design Center,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Successful Entrepreneurial Leaders: From Scrappy Founders to Polished Professional Managers
Susan Resnick West,
associate professor,
USC Annenberg School of Communication,
8:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zamarripa Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Emily Miller Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lenna Vanerian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sookiassian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Talin Zomdjian/Vosgan Naccashian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
12:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Results for Giant Arc Statistics in ~100 Clusters Observed with HST
Assaf Horesh,
graduate student,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
The How, the Where, and the Why of Oscillations in Cell Signaling
Andre Levchenko,
professor of biomedical engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Ground States and Excitations of Spatially Anisotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets
Oleg Starykh,
associate professor of physics,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Isotope Discrimination by Phylogenetically Diverse RubisCO Enzymes
Kathleen M. Scott,
assistant professor of biology,
University of Southern Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Life Emerged to Quicken the Hydrogenation of CO2 to CH3COOH and CH4
Michael J. Russell,
senior research fellow in planetary science,
JPL,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Testing Eternal Inflation with Cosmic Bubble Collisions
Matthew Johnson,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Right to Remain: New Orleans Residents Combat Attempts to Price Them Out of the City
Sakura Kone,
director,
Rebuild Green New Orleans,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Finding Structure with Randomness: Stochastic Algorithms for Computing Approximate Matrix Decompositions
Joel Tropp,
assistant professor of applied and computational mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Topic to be announced.
James Bullock,
associate professor of cosmology,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring Molecular Wheel Nanotubes Inside and Out: A Xenon Atom's View
Clifford R. Bowers,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Florida, Gainesville,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Revealing the Complexity of Structure-Function Relationships along the Insulin-Secretory Pathway Using 3-D Cellular Atlases at the Nanometer Scale
Brad Marsh,
Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland, Australia,
4:00pm
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