Institute Calendar
Spring 2008-2009
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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CMA Presents "Data + Art: Art and Science in the Age of Information"
See event detail for location
Dan Goods,
Exhibition curator,
David Delgado,
Exhibition curator,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
What I Learned about Public Power in Pasadena
Carol Carmichael,
member of Pasadena's Environmental Advisory Commission and faculty associate,
engineering and applied science,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Career Opportunities in the Life Science Industries
Toby Freedman,
president,
Synapsis Search,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineered Agonists of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate (S1P) Receptors for Therapeutic Neovascularization and Bone Repair
Edward Botchwey,
professor of biomedical engineering,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MD/PhD Seminar
Selective Regulation of Pro-inflammatory Genes by CpG Islands and Nucleosome Remodeling
Steve Smale,
Department of Molecular Biology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Tunneling Spectroscopy with Extraordinary Energy Resolution: The Discovery of a New Quasiparticle
Raymond Ashoori,
professor of physics,
MIT,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On the UV properties of Pohlmeyer-reduced string theory in AdS_5 x S^5
Radu Roiban,
assistant professor of physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Gauge Mediation
Sebastian Franco,
Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Type Zero Copper Proteins
Kyle Lancaster,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nanodiamond-Based Therapeutic Delivery Agents For Cancer Treatment
Dean Ho,
assistant professor,
departments of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering ,
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
9:30am
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12:30pm
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Dual Characterization of Length Spaces with Applications to Dirichlet Metrics
Peter Stollmann,
professor of mathematics,
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Mayank Vahia,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Role of Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits for Vocal Learning
Michale Fee,
associate professor of computational and systems neuroscience ,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Unifying Themes of Exploring Planets Near and Far
Yuk Yung,
professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for New Physics at the Tevatron
Monica D'Onofrio,
University of Barcelona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Mechanistic Studies of Oxidative Halophenol Dehalogenation by Heme-Containing Enzymes
John H. Dawson,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of South Carolina,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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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
Toward Alien Horizons: The Study of Exoplanet Atmospheres through Transit Spectroscopy
Angelle Tanner,
JPL,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
NASA Desert RATS: Preparing for Our Return to The Moon
James Rice,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Control of DNA Repair by Photolyase
Dongping Zhong,
associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Truth, the Standard Model Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?
Charles Plager,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Single-Molecule Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging: From Early Steps to Recent Advances
W.E. Moerner,
professor of chemistry,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:15pm
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2:00pm
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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
Modeling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence
Andrew Benson,
senior research fellow in theoretical cosmology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Sergey Nizkorodov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Structure-Based Design of Nonpeptidic Enzyme Inhibitors: A Powerful Tool in a Multi-Dimensional Approach Towards Molecular Recognition
Francois Diederich,
professor of organic chemistry,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Grain Boundaries in Solid Electrolytes: A Short-circuit or an Open-circuit?
Sangtae Kim,
associate professor,
chemical engineering and materials science,
UC Davis,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Potential of Fission and Fusion for Meeting Energy Demands
Paul Bellan,
professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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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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4/17
4:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Glass Cages for Catching Light
Philip Russell,
director,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Aversive Processing in the Human Striatum
Mauricio Delgado,
assistant professor of psychology,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Partial Melting, Metamorphism, and Deformation in a Collapsed Orogenic Plateau
Stacia Gordon,
postdoctoral scholar in Earth sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Alkene Metathesis in Metal Coordination Spheres: The Quest for Molecular Gyroscopes
John Gladysz,
professor of chemistry,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MD/PhD Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Kathrin Plath,
department of biological chemistry, Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity
Zvi Bern,
professor of physics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Rainbows, Red Sunsets, and Rocket Science Revisited
David J. Diner,
MISR principal investigator,
JPL,