Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:30pm
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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CMA Presents "The 10,000-Year Clock and Other Short-Term Thinking Exercises"
Alexander Rose,
Executive Director,
The Long Now Foundation,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Nucleic Acids: Solexa Sequencing and G-quadruplexes
Shankar Balasubramanian,
professor of chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop?
Thomas Levenson,
professor of science writing,
MIT,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Dedication Ceremony for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology
See event detail for location
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Aspects of Symmetric Product Orbifolds
Shlomo Razamat,
research associate in physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Alexander Westphal,
postdoctoral scholar,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Studies of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
Kathryn McMenimen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
3D-PTV Measurements in a Turbulent Flow with System Rotation
Matthias Kinzel,
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics,
Technische Universitaet of Darmstadt,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Strain-Drops and Corner Frequency Ratios Estimations from the Aftershocks of the 1999 İzmit and Düzce Earthquakes
Wenzheng Yang,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
The Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics
Sandro Caparrini,
postdoctoral fellow,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Unusual C-C Bond Forming Reactions of Platinum Biscarbenes
Rachel Klet,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
RF and Microwave Challenges for Cognitive Radio and TV White
Larry Larson,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
War, Moral Hazard, and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution
Gary W. Cox,
professor of political science,
UC San Diego,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
9:00am
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11:00am
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 2nd, 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
Timing the Starburst AGN-Connection
Vivienne Wild,
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
What Biology Can Do for Physics: Landscapes in Physics and Biology
Robert H. Austin,
professor of physics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
How Transcription Factors Program Chromatin during Hematopoietic Development: Lessons from Myeloid-specific Genes
Constanze Bonifer,
Division of Experimental Haematology,
University of Leeds, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Relating Impact Crater Shape to Target Properties: New Insights from MER and HiRISE
Wesley Andrés Watters,
postdoctoral research associate in astronomy,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Improving Methods for Heparin Characterization
Cynthia K. Larive,
professor of chemistry,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Inducing Limited Transparency in Tissues by Time-Reversing Light
Changhuei Yang,
associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Caltech,
Peter Willis,
senior engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Information Percolation in Segmented Markets
Gustavo Manso,
assistant professor of finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Coherence, Causation, and Confirmation: How the Causal Relations between Hypothesis and Evidence Matter
Richard Scheines,
professor of philosophy,
Machine Learning Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Random Quantum Satisfiability: Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Optimization
Chris Laumann,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
CDF in Its Prime: Searches for b', Z' and Friends
Daniel Whiteson,
UC Irvine,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
9:30am
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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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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Categorically Isolating Quantum Properties
Chris Heunen,
graduate student,
University of Oxford,
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 Nature of the ISM in Star-forming galaxies at z~2~3: Surprising New Results
Alice Shapley,
associate professor of astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Liquid Vapor Interface of Aqueous Solutions: Composition, Chemistry, and Acid/Base Properties
John C. Hemminger,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Karl Deisseroth,
associate professor of bioengineering,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 4th, 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
Relaxation Enhancement by Fluid Flow and Quantum Dynamics
Alexander Kiselev,
professor of mathematics,
the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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 Colloquium
Microlensing: Measuring the Galactic Distribution of Planets
Andy Gould,
professor of mathematical and physical sciences,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Prepare Immediately for Whatever Happens Next: "Rapid" Change at Ice Sheet Marine Margins
Christina Hulbe,
assistant professor of geology,
Portland State Universiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Norman Davidson Lecture: "Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity"
Bonnie Bassler,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
8:00am
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11/7
1:00pm
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8:00am
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11/7
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Dumpster Diving at Caltech
John Onderdonk,
manager,
Sustainability Programs,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Heterogeneous Reward Signals in Prefrontal Cortex
Jonathan Wallis,
assistant professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley ,