Institute Calendar
Fall 2010-2011
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
9:00am
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Solar Rises Again at Caltech—Celebrating the Institute's Newest Solar Photovoltaic Installations
See event detail for location
12:00pm
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12:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Exoplanets and Planet Formation in the Kepler Era
Jack Lissauer,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Lensing Map . . . A Redshift Survey
Margaret Geller,
HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit Banerjee,
professor of economics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Automatic Modulation Classification
Asoke Nandi,
professor and chair of signal processing,
the University of Liverpool,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gases and Their Masses: Using Dissolved O2 Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios to Qualify the Pacific Ocean Biological Carbon Pump
Laurie Juranek,
research scientist,
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (UW) and Pacific Marine Environmental Labo,
University of Washington and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Mechanism-Based Design and Development of Catalytic Reactions
Elizabeth R. Jarvo,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Networked Target Tracking Architectures
Randy Paffenroth,
program director,
Numerica Corporation,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Evaluation of the Importance of In-could SOA Formation
Xuan Zhang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Disk Formation in Protoplanetary Systems: Magnetic Braking and Non-ideal MHD
Ruben Krasnopolsky,
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Protein-Protein Interactions of Native and Designed bZIP Transcription Factor Coiled Coils
Amy E. Keating,
associate professor of biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Outcome Expectancies and the Mysterious Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Reinforcement Learning
Geoffrey Schoenbaum,
professor,
departments of anatomy, and neurobiology and psychology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Storm Dominated Carbonates and Sea-water Sabkhas, Unconventional Modern Analogs from Oman
Peter Homewood,
Totale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmological Intimations of Infinity
Anthony Aguirre,
associate professor of physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
S duality, Superconformal Index and 2d Topological Field Theory
Abhijit Gadde,
graduate student in physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
An Empirical Take on Computational Complexity in Economic Models
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishyan Group
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecular Engineering of Reporters of Protein Trafficking and Interactions, and Application to the Study of Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Development
Alice Y. Ting,
associate professor of chemistry,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optomechanics
Oskar Painter,
associate professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Section of the American Physical Society
The Warped Side of the Universe
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
8:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cordova/Calderon Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davtian/Zargarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00pm
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10/31
2:00am
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
8:00am
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12/1
8:00am
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12:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Internal Stellar Kinematics of the Nearby Compact Elliptical M32
Kirsten Howley,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar
Decimations and Superpositions in Random Matrix Theory
Peter Forrester,
professor of mathematics and statistics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Testing the Star Formation Law in Bulgeless Disk Galaxies
Linda Watson,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The Band Structure, Electron-electron Interaction and Transport in Bilayer Graphene
Jun Zhu,
professor of physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Global Nitrogen Cycle: Where Is the Missing N?
William Schlesinger,
president,
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Formation and Function of the Heterodinuclear Mn/Fe Cofactor of /Chlamydia Trachomatis/Ribonucleotide Reductase
Carsten Krebs,
associate professor of chemistry and associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Collective Action with Uncertain Payoffs: Coordination, Public Signals & Punishment Dilemmas
Mehdi Shadmehr,
University of Illinois,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Rank/Sparsity Minimization and Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Automation of the Matrix Element Reweighting Model
Pierre Artoisenet,
Ohio State University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:40pm
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Variational Approach to Enhanced Geothermal Systems Reservoir Stimulation
Blaise Bourdin,
associate professor of mathematics,
Louisiana State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A (Hypothetical) Data to Discovery Engine
Mark Stalzer,
faculty associate in computing and mathematical sciences and executive director,
CACR,
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
Spin Systemsas Toy Models for Emergent Gravity
Fotini Markopoulou,
professor of quantum gravity,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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
Star Formation and Galaxy Assembly at Redshifts 1-5
Bruce Elmegreen,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Why We Still Can't Solve Chemistry through Quantum Mechanics—And Maybe Why We Can
Garnet K.-L. Chan,
associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Bridging Science and Medicine: Molecular Genetics as a Tool for Drug Discovery
Roger Perlmutter,
executive vice president for research and development,
Amgen,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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