Institute Calendar
Fall 2009-2010
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
2:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Making Organelles the Bacterial Way: Structure and Mechanisms of Protein-Based Microcompartments
Todd Yeates,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Paleo-Earthquakes, Slip Rates, and Possible Strain Transients (or Not): Geologic Insights into the Behavior of the North Anatolian Fault
James Dolan,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmology from Standard Sirens
Daniel Holz,
Richard Feynman Fellow,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
8:00am
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11/17
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Fractional Charge in Time-Inversion Invariant Systems
Roman Jackiw,
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Title: Network Science for Wireless Communication: Information Spread, Mobility, and Resilience
Edmund Yeh,
associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Stable Grid Refinement and Singular Source Discretization for Seismic Wave Simulations
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition: Towards Cooperative Studies
Steven Schneider,
professor,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Detection of the Sharp Features in the Deep Earth with Waveform Complexity
Daoyuan Sun,
assistant scientist,
Seismo Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide Assisted by Pendant Lewis Acids
Alexander J. Miller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
CMOS Integrated Biosensors: Fact or Fiction?
Arjang Hassibi,
assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows
John Kerrigan,
professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Stranger in a Strange Land: My Time on the Augustine Committee"
JPL
Jeff Greason,
President,
XCOR Aerospace,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Botros/Bishara Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkissian/Hosepians Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich,
author,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanistic Studies of Alkane C-H Activation by Platinum(II)
George Chen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Exploring DNA-Mediated Charge Transport With Fast Radical Traps
Joseph Genereux,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Stellar Halo
Ian Roederer,
graduate student in astronomy,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Cellular Integration in the Heart: Interaction between Myocytes, Fibroblasts, Endothelial Cells and the ECM
Thomas K. Borg,
professor of regenerative medicine and cell biology,
University of South Carolina,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Quantifying Fault System Complexity and Rheology at Continental Plate Boundaries
Brendan Meade,
associate professor Earth and planetary sciences,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Domain Decomposition Methods for High-Contrast Multiscale Flow Problems
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Tunneling Spectral Dip: A Universal Feature of High TC Superconductors
John Zasadzinski,
professor of physical sciences,
Illinois Institute of Technology,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
CP Violation for the Heaven and Earth—A KM Saga
George W.S. Hou,
National Taiwan University,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Faster Quantum Algorithm for Evaluating Game Trees
Ben Reichardt,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
School of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
GW Detector Calibration
Peter Kalmus,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Gas-phase Ion/Ion Reactions: Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer, and Bio-conjugation
Scott A. McLuckey,
professor of chemistry,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Molecular Origami: Protein Folding and Misfolding in Health and Disease
Judith Frydman,
Clark Center,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Social Entrepreneurship
Adlai Wertman,
professor of clinical management and organization,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
7:30am
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4:30pm
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8:00am
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11/25
5:00pm
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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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