Institute Calendar
Spring 2008-2009
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Rapid Scale Dependent CFT Thermalization from Gravity
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar & GALCIT Colloquium
The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond
Panayotis Kevrekidis,
associate professor of mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Supramolecular Assembly Using Geometrically Defined Metals and Topologically Directed Pyridyl Carboxylate
Peili Teo,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Testing the Origin of Neutrino Masses at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:15pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Private, Non-Commercial Photography on Campus: Moranon Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karakachian 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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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Phuong Kim Vu Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Investigations of Cys-loop Neurotransmitter Gated Ion Channels
Ariele Hanek,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
The Complex Evolution of Simple Systems
Mario Mateo,
professor of astronomy,
University of Michigan,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Recent Advances in InP-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits
Larry Coldren,
professor of optoelectronics and photonics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Planck: History, Status, and Prospects
Krzysztof Gorski,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Puzzling Protons: Signatures of Large Amplitude Motions in Protonated and Hydrogen-Bonded Systems
Anne B. McCoy,
professor of chemistry,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Steve Gygi,
associate professor of cell biology,
Harvard Medical School,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
8:30am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Reprogramming Alternative Splicing Using Cis-Acting Intronic Control Elements
Stephanie Culler,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Developing High-Affinity Protein Capture Agents and Nanotechnology-Based Platforms for In Vitro Diagnostics
Rosemary Rohde,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Statistics of Quasiperiodic Eigenvalues
Svetlana Jitomirskaya,
professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks: A Stochastic/Adaptive Control Approach
Tara Javidi,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Measuring VOCs at 150 ms-1 over the Tropical Rainforest
Jonathan Williams,
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Otto Hahn Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Strategies and Tactics Inspired by Seven-Membered Rings in Natural Products
Richmond Sarpong,
professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Analysis of the Chemical Composition and Transformation of Atmospheric and Chamber Generated Aerosol Using Mass Spectrometry
Shane Murphy,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Studies in the Design and Characterization of HIV-1 Neutralizing Molecules
Joshua S. Klein,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Investigation of Structural Effects on Zeolite Characterization by Constraint Index Testing
John Carpenter,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
New Structures of the Universal Translator, the Ribosome
Jamie Cate,
associate professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
A Review of the Seismic Performance of the Ceiling-Piping-Partition Nonstructural Systems
Manos Maragakis,
professor of civil engineering,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Meteoritic Ca-Al-rich Inclusions: The Spinel Perspective
Donald Burnett,
professor of nuclear geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Order of Magnitude Biology
Rob Phillips,
professor of applied physics and mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
8:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Stable Non-supersymmetric Throats in String Theory
Dusan Simic,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Molecular Sieve Synthesis Using Imidazolium Structure Directing Agents
Raymond Archer,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Dicer and Beyond: Regulatory RNA Processing and Function
Jennifer Doudna,
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
IR Divergences of Gauge-Theory Amplitudes and Resummation for LHC
Matthias Neubert,
University of Mainz,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ir(ONO) Pincer Complexes as Models for the Shilov Cycle
Ross Fu,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
One-Dimensional Superconductors and Granular Electronic Materials
Ke Xu,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:40pm
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5:40pm
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