Institute Calendar
Spring 2009-2010
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing
Tom Stace,
postdoctoral research fellow,
University of Queensland,
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
Exploring the Time Domain with the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey
George Djorgovski,
professor of astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand
Jeremy Levy,
professor of physics,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
I. Ferromagnetism by Design: Understanding Bound Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots II. TDDFT Electronic Dynamics: Lifetimes of Excited States on Surfaces
Xiaosong Li,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Weber's Law Response in Wnt Signaling
Lea Goentoro,
postdoctoral fellow in systems biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters
Adam Showman,
associate professor, dynamics and evolution of planetary atmospheres,
University of Arizona,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Inelastic Dark Matter
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Marching to a Different Drummer
David Mumford,
professor emeritus,
Brown 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 14th, 2010
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
Best Rational Approximation of the Exponential Function on the Semiaxis and Saddle-Points for the Energy
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor,
Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
White Dwarf Binaries, Mergers, and Explosions
Marten van Kerkwijk,
professor of astronomy,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors
Roger Y. Tsien,
professor of chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Impact of Turbulence on the Intensity of Hurricanes in Numerical Models
Richard Rotunno,
senior scientist in mesoscale meteorology,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Bulk Viscosity of Suspensions
Manuj Swaroop,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:20pm
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Thesis Defense
Formate Dehydrogenase Genes Form Termite Gut Microbiota: Insights on the Ricrobial Ecology of Acetogenic Bacteria
Xinning Zhang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Mental State Reasoning for Estabishing Innocence and Guilt
Liane Young,
postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Analytical Development and Experimental Validation of a Structural-Fuse Bridge Pier Concept
Samer El Bahey,
graduate research assistant in physics,
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering,
University at Buffalo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Establishing Cellular Positional Information through Gradient Dynamics in the Developing Fruit Fly
Marcos Nahmad,
graduate student in control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ten Years in the Life of a Siliceous Stromatolite from a Yellowstone Hot Spring
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Metrology with Atomic Ensembles
Eugene Polzik,
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Strings at the TeV Scale
Dieter Luest,
chair for mathematical physics, LMU-München,
and director,
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Predicting Instabilities in Granular Materials: From Granular Avalanches to Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction
Jose Andrade,
assistant professor of civil engineering,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium, Thesis Defense
Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow over a Sphere
Adam Norman,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arabyan/Zakarian Wedding 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: Atikian/Arutyunyants Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Minasyan/Karapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Special Seminar on the 2010 Mw7.2 Sierra El Mayor Earthquake, Baja California
Egill Hauksson,
senior research associate in geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Enantioselective Hydroformylation: Catalyst Synthesis, Application, and Mechanism
Clark R. Landis,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 17th, 2010
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Social Media + Innovation: When Is It a Business? Distilling Venture Success from Fads and Fast Growth
Oliver Starr,
chief evangelist,
Clean Green Guy, Inc.,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Heimbuch/Hasbeen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grigourtians/Zhamkockyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tai/Chien Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
12:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Time Dependent Radiative Transfer in SNe Atmosphere and Cosmic Recombination Epoch: Effect on Spectra and Transition Probabilities in a True Multilevel Framework
Soma De,
graduate student in physics and astronomy,
University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Normalization Model of Attention
David Heeger,
professor of psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Comparing Several Models of Stochastic Choice Under Risk
Nathaniel T. Wilcox,
professor of economics,
Economic Science Institute,
Chapman University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Titan's Lakes: Croll-Milankovitch and Seasonal Cycles
Oded Aharonson,
associate professor of planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
A Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Nanocavity on Gold: Towards the Ultimate Nanolaser
Se-Heon Kim,
KNI Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Complex Huygens Principles as Efficient Representations of Wave Fields
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar—cancelled
Oscillons in Scalar and Gauge Field Theories: Theory and Applications in Particle Physics and Cosmology
Marcelo Gleiser,
professor of natural philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy,
Dartmouth College,