Institute Calendar
Spring 2010-2011
Monday, March 28th, 2011
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Rotation and Star-Disk Interaction
Nairn Baliber,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Robert Nowak,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar
Approximate Mechanism Design Without Money
Ariel Procaccia,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Himalayan Orogenesis and Its Impact on the Carbon Cycle
Christian France-Lanord,
CNRS Research Director,
CRPG Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Approximate Mechanism Design Without Money
Ariel Procaccia,
research fellow,
Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS),
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Integral Absorbing Boundary Conditions in the Time Domain
Francisco-Javier Sayas,
associate professor of mathematical sciences,
University of Delaware,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Birth Environment of the Solar System
Fred C. Adams,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Seeing Magnetic Light: Quantifying and Enhancing Magnetic Dipole Emission
Rashid Zia,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Expanding the Network of Advanced GW Detectors
Jay Marx,
LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mitochondria and Neurodegeneration
Hugo Bellen,
professor of developmental biology,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Paul Hayne,
postdoctoral scholar in geology and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Kosher Pork
Allan Drazen,
professor of economics,
University of Maryland,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Show Me the Money: How Federal Funds Come to JPL"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Dr. Richard O'Toole,
Manager,
Office of Legislative Affairs,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
10:00am
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Small Star Opportunity to Find and Characterize Habitable Planets
Jacob Bean,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Formal Verification of Software Infrastructure: From Science to Engineering
Adam Chlipala,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The First Room Temperature Continuous Wave (CW) Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) and High Efficiency Blue and Green GaN LEDs
Chun-Yen Chang,
professor,
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Novel Carbon Aerogel Architectures for Energy Storage Applications
Theodore F. Baumann,
chemist, Advanced Materials Synthesis Group,
Chemical Sciences Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Lecture: The Crisis at Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant
Joseph Shepherd,
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dean of Grad,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
6:30pm
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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, March 31st, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Genomics
Paul Blainey,
postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Multiscale Strategies for Modeling Proteins and Liquid Water
M. Scott Shell,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
New Tools for Understanding Mitigating Rock Falls in Yosemite National Park
Greg Stock,
geologist,
National Parks Service, Yosemite,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Near-Earth Comets and Asteroids
Donald K. Yeomans,
senior research scientist and supervisor for the Solar System Dynamics Group,
JPL,
Friday, April 1st, 2011
9:00am
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11:00am
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Spin-dependent Transport and Magnetic Response in Topological Insulators
Anton Burkov,
professor of physics and astronomy,
University of Waterloo, Canada,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Two Proposals for Robust PCA using Semidefinite Programming
Joel Troop,
assistant professor of applied and computational mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Adventures along the Quantum-classical Boundary: On Schrödinger Cats, Decoherence and Prospects of Testing Continuous Spontaneous Localization Theories
Markus Arndt,
professor of physics,
University of Vienna,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Functional Group Tolerant Organometallic Polymerization Catalysis
Stefan Mecking,
professor and chair for chemical materials science,
University of Konstantz,
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Experimental Studies on the Response of Sandwich Structures to Blast Loading
Arun Shukla,
University of Rhode Island,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Asymmetric Non-metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization
Rachel Klet,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Ultra-Low {Power, Size} Platforms for Brain-Machine Interfaces
Jan Rabaey,
professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Delay and Power-Optimal Control in Multi-Class Queueing Systems
Chih-ping Li,
Electrical Engineering,
USC,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
10:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Huang Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Garakani Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
1:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond our Solar System
3:30pm
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3:30pm
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7:00pm
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