Institute Calendar
Spring 2006-2007
Monday, March 26th, 2007
8:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Adaptive Experimentation, Expected Value of Improvement, and Robust Design
Daniel Frey,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems,
MIT,
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
Latest Results from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: Three-Year Observations
Eiichiro Komatsu,
assistant professor of astronomy,
The University of Texas at Austin,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Interactions of Photonic Crystal Fibers
Alexander Gaeta,
professor of applied and engineering physics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Simulations of the Multi-Scale Motions of Proteins
Yi-Qin Gao,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Where Do Little Golgi Stacks Come From?
Benjamin Glick,
associate professor,
department of molecular genetics and cell biology,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
B Meson Decays to Three-Body Charmless Hadronic Final States
Alexei Y. Garmash,
associate research physicist,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Asymptotics on Heisenberg Manifolds
Mahta Khosravi,
postdoctoral member,
school of mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
New Insights into Star Formation in Galaxies from Spitzer
Robert Kennicutt,
junior professor and astronomer,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Evolution of Adaptive Immunity
Max Cooper,
professor of medicine,
department of developmental and clinical immunology,
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Defining Nascent Bone by the Molecular Nanomechanics of Mineralized Collagen Fibrils
Markus J. Buehler,
principal investigator,
atomistic mechanics modeling laboratory,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Reheating of the Universe after Infation with f(phi)R Gravity: Spontaneous Decay of Inflatons to Bosons, Fermions, and Gauge Bosons
Eiichiro Komatsu,
assistant professor of astronomy,
University of Texas at Austin,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium & Seismo Lab
Thermo-hydro-mechanics of Rapid Fault-Zone Shear in Earthquakes
James R. Rice,
professor of engineering sciences and geophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanotechnology for Cheaper and More Durable Fuel Cells
Yushan Yan,
professor of chemical engineering and materials science,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Growth Rate Dependence of Mg, Sr, and U Incorporation into Abiogenic Calcium Carbonate
Rinat Gabitov,
postdoctoral scholar in geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Daniel T. Gryko,
associate professor of inorganic chemistry,
Polish Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Electronic Engineering at University College London—Teaching, Research, and Study Abroad Possibilities
Alwyn Seeds,
head of the department of electronic and electical engineering,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmological Simulations of Clusters of Galaxies: Status, Problems, Challenges
Andrey Kravtsov,
associate professor,
department of astronomy and astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
9:00am
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10:30am
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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
Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories and Supergroup Sigma Models
Hubert Saleur,
professor of theoretical statistical mechanics,
USC,
11:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cold Bosonic Atoms in Magnetically Frustrated Lattices
Dagim Tilahun,
graduate student in physics,
The University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospects for Diffractive and Forward Physics at the LHC
Monika Grothe,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
University of Wisconsin, Turin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Visualizing the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Volker Remmert,
University of Mainz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Carbon Dioxide Activation by Low Valent Iron
Caroline Saouma,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Can Dark Matter Turn into Light and Bright Matter?
Hasan Yüksel,
postdoctoral research associate,
Ohio State University,
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, March 31st, 2007
8:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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12:30pm
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5:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gandara Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Two Studies of Connections between Evolution and Physiology
Michael P. Brenner,
professor of applied mathematics and applied physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species
Kun Yang,
professor of physics,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A New Reality: B—> Pi Pi Annihilation in SCET
Chris Arnesen,
graduate student in physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Triazacyclohexanes as Small Macrocycles: Coordination Chemistry and Application
Randolf Kohn,
professor of chemistry,
University of Bath,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Desingularizing an Interesting Five-fold
Professor Kapil Paranjape,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Algorithms for Variational Problems Constrained by Elliptic and Evolution Equations