Institute Calendar
Fall 2010-2011
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kasabyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mkhitaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, December 6th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Atmospheric Reactive Trace Gas Observations in Field and Laboratory Studies using CF3O-Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
John Crounse,
graduate student in chemistry and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Real-time, Self-Learning River Basin Living: Challenges
Jorg Imberger,
Center for Water Research,
University of Western Australia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Seeing and Controlling Topological Insulator Surface Electrons
David Hsieh,
research fellow in physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Precise Near-Infrared Radial Velocities with the TripleSpec Exoplanet Discovery Instrument (TEDI)
Philip Muirhead,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designed Metalloproteins: From Mononuclear Zinc Hydrolase to Copper Nitrite Reductase Mimics
Vincent Pecoraro,
professor of chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Signs of a Hidden Sector from Supersymmetry(s)
Clifford Cheung,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Charge and Energy Transport in Molecular Junctions
Pramod Reddy Reddy,
professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Endeavors towards Bridging the Gap between Homo and Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis with Organometallics
Kuiling Ding,
professor of organic chemistry,
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
Andrew Childs,
assistant professor,
Institute for Quantum Computing and Combinatorics & Optimization,
University of Waterloo,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
CANCELED
Hans Zinneker,
SOFIA Observatory, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Adiabatic Frequency Conversion
Haim Suchowski,
graduate student in physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Transient Resonances in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Tanja Hinderer,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games (Part 2)
Sachin Adlakha,
postdoctoral scholar in computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Dynamical Signature of Abasic DNA Damage: A Computational Study of Coumarin 102 in DNA
Steven A. Corcelli,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
John Boothroyd,
professor of microbiology and immunology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Viennese Waltz or Pasadena Rave? How a Score of Injected, Polymorphic "Kinases" Determines the Character of Toxoplasma's Dance with Its Host
John Boothroyd,
professor of microbiology and immunology ,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
8:00am
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12/10
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Joel Hartman,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Diffusion and Delocalization for Band Matrices
Laszlo Erdoes,
professor of mathematics,
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Effect of News on Trading, Adverse Selection and Dynamic Signaling
Brendan Daley,
assistant professor of economics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Dislocations from First Principles: Connecting Defects to Macroscale Behavior in Real Materials
Dallas R. Trinkle,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
From Protein-polymer Conjugates to Protein-nanoarrays: Integration of Synthetic Polymers and Biomolecules for Applications in Medicine
Heather D. Maynard,
professor of chemistry,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar - CANCELED
Julia Slingo,
chief scientist,
Met Office (the United Kingdom's National Weather Service) ,
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
Transport Vesicle Biogenesis: Mechanism, Control and Disease Connections
Randy Schekman,
HHMI Investigator and professor of cell and developmental biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Morphodynamics of Supraglacial Streams
Leif Karlstrom,
graduate student in Earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars
Candice Hansen,
principal scientist,
Planetary Ices Group,
JPL,
Friday, December 10th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Strategies and Interactive Beliefs in Dynamic Games
Pierpaolo Battigali,
Bocconi University,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Genetic Control of T-Cell Proliferation with Synthetic RNA Regulatory Systems
Yvonne Chen,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Targeting Synthetic Efficiency: Application of Transition Metal Catalysis in Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products and Exploration of Catalysts for Anti-Markovnikov Olefin Hydration"
Guangbin Dong,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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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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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars
Candice Hansen,
principal scientist,
Planetary Ices Group,
JPL,
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yakoubian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Akhverdyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: A. Garibyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
10:30am
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7:00pm
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Video and Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni (approved)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, December 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Aerosol Nucleation Measurements from the CLOUD Experiment at CERN
Joachim Curtius,
professor of physics,
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences,
Goethe-University Frankfurt,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Massive Black Hole Recoil
Javiera Guedes,
graduate student in astronomy,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Single Molecule Dynamics of Translation Initiation and Elongation
Joseph (Jody) Puglisi,
professor of structural biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Brain
John Disterhoft,
professor of physics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds (joint with Nuno Cassola and Jakub Kastl)
Ali Hortaҫsu,
professor of economics,
the University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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