Institute Calendar
Spring 2010-2011
Friday, May 27th, 2011
11:00am
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5/28
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Market Design for Electricity Grids with Intermittent Sources
Sachin Adlakha,
postdoctoral scholar in computer science,
Caltech,
Desmond Cai,
graduate student,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Energy Dissipation and Conversion in Nanoscale Devices
Eric Pop,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nanosatellites from a CubeSat Designer's Perspective
Andrew Kalman,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Development of Next-generation Millimeter-wave Components and Subsystems for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Thermodynamic Profiles
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ring Contraction Strategy for the Practical, Scalable, Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Versatile Acylcyclopentenes
Allen Hong,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Entering Novel Therapeutic Technologies into Pharma Research and Advancing them Through Development
Eric Forssen,
manager of drug delivery sciences,
Allergan, Irvine, CA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
8:00am
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5/31
5:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Rios Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balabanian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mardigian/Mikailian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 30th, 2011
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 31st, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Constraning Anthropogenic and Biogenic Emissions Using Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
Kathleen Spencer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Graphene-Based Materials
Rod Ruoff,
Cockrell Family Regents Chair,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Trying to Compute Capacity of Two-Dimensional Constraints
Brian Marcus,
professor of mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Biological Activity of a Py-Im Polyamide Androgen Receptor Antagonist
John Phillips,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Shangyu Zhang,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
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
Adaptive Optics Imaging of Circumstellar Debris
Michael Fitzgerald,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in Advanced Gravitational-wave Detectors
Haixing Miao,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Discrimination of Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Microbes by the Innate Immune System
Daniel Portnoy,
professor of molecular and cell biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Neil Turner,
research scientist ,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Study of Congressional District Compactness
Jeffrey Lewis,
associate professor of political science,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
8:00am
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6/3
5:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Science Mission and Technology Partnerships with Northrop Grumman
Kristen Shapiro,
Northrup Grumman,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Single-Molecule Studies of Ion Channels Expressing Unnatural Amino Acids
Jai Shanata,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Research Conference
A New Paradigm for GTPase Regulation of Co-Translational Protein Targeting
Shu-ou Shan,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Civic Science Approach to Climate Change in California
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Role of Transport Phenomena in Whispering Gallery Mode Optical Resonator Sensor Performance
Jason Gamba,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Exploring Spatial and Temporal Variability in Precambrian Ocean Chemistry
Christopher Reinhard,
graduate student in Earth sciences,
UC Riverside,
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium: Session 1
Tripodal Tris(diphenylphosphino) Cobalt(I) Complex and Progress towards Ligand-functionalized Silicon(111)
Donatela Bellone,
undergraduate student,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Phononics: A New Science and Technology in Controlling Heat Flow and Processing Information with Phonons
Baowen Li,
professor of physics and director of the Centre for Computational Science & Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chinarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Chem 82 Senior Thesis Symposium: Session 2
Synthesis of Fluorene-co-imidazolium Alternating Copolymers by Copper-catalyzed Azide-alkyne Cycloaddition: Towards Fully Conjugated Polymers with Pendant Carbenes
Tina Ding,
undergraduate student,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Chem 82 Seminar Thesis Symposium: Session 3
Silicon Heterojunction Wire Array Photovoltaics
Andrey Poletayev,
undergraduate student,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar—cancelled
Threefold Symmetric Metal Pyrrolide Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and Magnetism
William H. Harman,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Carmona/Eskandari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Satchyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, June 4th, 2011
8:00am
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6/7
5:00pm
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12:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Astourian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lusikyan Wedding 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: Sadekyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gregorian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gurunyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography