Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Particles and Gases that Disrupt Lung Development
Anthony Wexler,
professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Controlling Biomolecular Motor Nanomechanical Movements for Micro Powering, Molecular Sorting, and Biosensing
Katsuo Kurabayashi,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The future of solar energy
Harry Atwater,
Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Biodiesel Talk
Richard Nelson,
associate professor,
Engineering Extension Programs,
Kansas State University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Reconstructing the Physiology of Extinct Plants using Mathematical Modeling
Jonathan Wilson,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Using Concurrent TMS-fMRI to Study Causal Functional Interactions in the Human Brain
Christian C. Ruff,
research fellow,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Is Arctic Sea Ice Approaching a Tipping Point?
Ian Eisenman,
postdoctoral scholar in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dots for Dummies
Ramamurti Shankar,
professor of physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Architecture of the Cassini Division
Phil Nicholson,
Cornell University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric Wilson Loops in N=4 SYM and Pure Spinors
Anatoly Dymarsky,
Institute for Advanced Study,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Using the Shuttle, MIR, and ISS for Operating Micro-Gravity Engineering Research Laboratories
David Miller,
professor,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Long, Strange Road: Corroles 3
Joshua Palmer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Galstanyan Birthday Group
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishyan/Chan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
Living and Working on the International Space Station
Gregory Chamitoff,
astronaut,
NASA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
Mariska Kriek,
postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar - CANCELED
Roy Bar-Ziv,
senior scientist,
Department of Materials and Interfaces,
the Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Cosmogenic-Nuclide Burial Dating
Greg Balco,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Berkeley Geochronology Center,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Measuring Sparticles with the Matrix Element
Johan Alwall,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand,
environmentalist and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog,
8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
8:30am
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11/10
12:00pm
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Seeking Topological Information in Knot Homologies
Yi Ni,
faculty member in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Mechanism Design
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Death of the Biggest Stars
Alexander Heger,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems
Marko Lončar,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
X-ray Probing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in the Attosecond Limit
Stephen R. Leone,
professor of chemistry and physics, and director, Chemical Dynamics Beamline,
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Charged Current Neutral Pion Production at MiniBooNE
Robert Nelson,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
8:00am
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11/3
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
The Cellular Uptake of Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
Cindy Puckett,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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
Basic Hypergeometric Biorthogonal Functions as Limits
Fokko van de Bult,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor in mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint
Frank Vallentin,
postdoctoral scholar,
Delft University of Technology,
3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
An Experimental Test of Non-local Realism
Simon Groeblacher,
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Spatially Resolved Dynamics of z~2forming Galaxies
Reinhard Genzel,
managing director,
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Cloud Ice: Observing and Modeling the Hard Part of the Clouds
Duane Waliser,
JPL,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
RNA: Prebiotic Product or Biotic Invention
John D. Sutherland,
professor of chemistry,
University of Manchester,