Institute Calendar
Fall 2010-2011
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
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Astronomy Colloquium
Heavy Vortices and Dark Energy
Phil Chang,
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability
Stephen Morris,
professor of economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reaching the Wind and Invading New Territories: The Strategies of Stationary and Symbiotic Organisms
Anne Pringle,
associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Dislocation Multiplication and Nucleation
Wei Cai,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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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 4th, 2010
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be announced.
Anne Laraia,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants
Nabeel Riza,
distinguished lecturer, IEEE Photonics Society,
the College of Optics & Photonics,
University of Central Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Prediction and Design of Macromolecular Structures and Functions
David Baker,
professor of biochemistry and HHMI Investigator,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
A General Model of Temporal Discounting Based on Two Value Systems
Samuel McClure,
assistant professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering interfaces for energy conservation
Stacey Bent,
professor of chemical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A Journey across the Periodic Table in Search of Understanding Rates of Earth Surface Processes
Joshua West,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The National Ignition Facility: The Path to Ignition, High Energy Density Science and Inertial Fusion Energy
Edward Moses,
principal associate director of NIF and Photon Science,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
7:30am
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11/6
2:00pm
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7:30am
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11/6
2:00pm
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8:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Wall-crossing of D4-D2-D0 and Flop of the Conifold
Takahiro Nishinaka,
Osaka University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Pricing in Online Advertising Marketplace
Nilanjan Roy,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
High-Speed Turbulent Boundary Layers with Non-Equilibrium Effects
Rodney Bowersox,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gharibian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Investigating a P450 Photocycle
Maraia Ener,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Castro Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Darbinyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Parunakian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:45pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karimian Wedding Party
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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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10:00pm
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11/7
12:00am
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10:00pm
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11:59pm
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Oghamian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
Wealth and Death in Paris 1807–1937
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor in Business Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function
Brandon Kelly,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Universal Dynamics in Thermally Isolated Systems
Anatoli Polkovnikov,
assistant professor of condensed matter physics,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
Benjamin Handel,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Lunar Magma Ocean: Reconciling the Solidification Process with Lunar Petrology and Geochronology
Lindy Elkins-Tanton,
assistant professor of geology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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