Institute Calendar
Spring 2010-2011
Monday, April 4th, 2011
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
On the Comparative Statics of Equilibrium Points
Rabah Amir,
professor of economics, University of Arizona,
and visiting professor of economics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Pili Expression in Uropathogenic E. coli: Stochastic Switching and Epigenetic Control
Mustafa Khammash,
professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Geometry of Quantum Response in Open Systems
Yosi (Joseph) Avron,
professor of physics,
Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Preliminary Results of March 2011 Japan Earthquake Sequence
Miaki Ishii,
associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Jeffrey R. Long,
professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Parallel-in-Time Integrators for Hamiltonian Systems
Frederic Legoll,
LAMI,
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Effective Conformal Theory and Applications to Model-Building
Andrew Liam Fitzpatrick,
Boston University,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Stabilized and Regularized Meshfree Method and its Application to Fragment-Impact Problems
J.S. Chen,
Chancellor Professor, Distinguised Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UCLA,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Inhibitors of HIF Prolyl Hydroxylases as Hypoxia Mimetics
Michael H. Rabinowitz,
Dr.,
Pharmaceutical Research & Development,
Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.,
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
High-Level Visual Recognition
Fei-Fei Li,
assistant professor of computer science,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Visualization of Two Qubits
Yosi Avron,
Department of Physics,
Technion,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
The Edge of Magnetism
Collin Broholm,
professor of physics,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Basis of Probabilistic Inferences
Alexandre Pouget,
associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and bioengineering,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Making Eyes: Gene Regulation, Networks and Modulation
Veronica van Heyningen,
MRC Human Genetics Unit,
Western General Hospital, Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
"Clumped Isotope" Thermometry of ALH 84001 Carbonates: Constraints on Formation Processes and the Early Martian Near-Surface
Itay Halevy,
Texaco Postdoctoral Scholar in Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
A Case of the Nerves: William James and Neurasthenia in His Era
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz,
professor of history,
Smith College,
7:30pm
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
10:00am
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Novel Modulators of the Human Histamine H4 Receptor
Jennifer Venable,
Dr.,
Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.,
11:00am
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Astronomy Colloquium
Brown Dwarf Science with the FIRE Spectrograph: Kinematics, Clouds and Ultracold Atmospheres
Adam Burgasser,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Paleoseismology of Blind Thrust Faults, with Examples Earthquake-by-earthquake Fold Growth from the Los Angeles Region
James Dolan,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Dissimilar Materials Epitaxy - Applications for Spintronics, Thermoelectrics and Shape Memory Materials
Chrisopher Palmstrom,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Natural Product Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
Jiyong Hong,
professor of chemistry,
Duke University,
6:30pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
9:00am
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Christian Johnson,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
A New Approach to Robustness and Flexibility in High-dimensions
Sujay Sanghavi,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Engaging Spins in Semiconductors for Quantum Information Processing
David Awschalom,
professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 8th, 2011
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Geometric Features of Contracting Adiabatic Evolutions
Yosi Avron,
professor of physics,
Technion,
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Hidden Convexity in Fundamental Optimization Problems in Power Networks
Javad Lavaeiyanesi,
graduate student in control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Regimes for Supernova-Relevant Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments at the National Ignition Facility
Aaron R. Miles,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Constructive Cortical Computation
Rodney Douglas,
professor,
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH, Zurich,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Progress Towards Carbon Dioxide Reduction Electrocatalysts: Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Bimetallic Complexes
Alicia Chang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Empire and the Politics of Information in America, 1840-1860
Peter Shulman,
assistant professor of history,
Case Western Reserve University,
4:30pm
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Saber Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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