Institute Calendar
Fall 2010-2011
Friday, November 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Bose-Einstein Condensates and Synthetic Gauge Fields
Ian Spielman,
fellow,
Joint Quantum Institute,
NIST and the University of Maryland,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact Results in Black Hole Entropy Counting
Joao Gomes,
University of Paris,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Queueing Games in Call Centers
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan,
graduate student in computer science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Microlocal and Dynamic Modes: Two Tools for Quantitative Flow Analysis
Peter Schmid,
École Polytechnique,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tiratsuyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Jenn Wortman Vaughan,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Castos Rivadulla,
University of the District of Columbia,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kostickyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
10:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cochran/Marshall Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Luna Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Golnazarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachader Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
10:00am
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6:00pm
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10:30am
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7:00pm
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Video and Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Compact Representation of Data with Statistical Independence Measures
Fei Sha,
assistant professor of computer science,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Investigation of the Role of Hydrides in Zirconocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization
Steven Baldwin,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
FemtosecondTime-Resolved Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Anions: Electron Solvation and Isolated Chromophore Dynamics
I-Ren Lee,
graduate student in chemistry and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductivity in the Repulsive Hubbard Model: An Symptotically Exact Weak Coupling Solution
Srinivas Raghu,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Life between the Snowballs
Tanja Bosak,
assistant professor of geobiology,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:40pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobaloximes
Jillian Dempsey,
graduate student in chemistry and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Different Signatures of Pulselike Earthquakes Propagating on Thin Faults
Ahmed Ettaf Elbanna,
graduate student in civil engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information Processing with Atomic Spin Ensembles
Eugene Polzik,
professor,
Niels Bohr Institute,
Copenhagen University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar—cancelled
Tonio Buonassissi,
professor of mechanical engineering and manufacturing,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Modulating the Activity of Context Dependent Transcription Factors using Ubiguitin and SUMO
Carole La Bonne,
associate professor of biochemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Digital Democratization: Suffrage Expansion and the Decline of Political Machines in Brazil
F. Daniel Hidalgo,
Department of Political Science,
UC Berkeley,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Analytic Quasi-Periodic Cocycles with Singularities: Lyapunov Exponent and Spectral Theory for Extended Harper's Model
Christoph Marx,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
8:00am
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11/26
5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Savoji Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography