Institute Calendar
Spring 2010-2011
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
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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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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5/25
10:00pm
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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, April 7th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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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
Topic to be announced.
Christian Johnson,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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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,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 9th, 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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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
8:30am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Saber Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Vote Markets
Thomas R. Palfrey,
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Mechanical architecture of cell division
Sophie Dumont,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
How to Build CCAT
Steve Padin,
senior research associate in astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
From Cellular Mechanotransduction to Biologically Inspired Engineering
Donald Elliott Ingber,
professor of bioengineering,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Lattice Bosons: a paradigm strongly fluctuating superconductors and "bad metals"
Assa Auerbach,
Professor,
Physics Department ,
Technion,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Pyroclastic Flow Dynamics: Insights from Laboratory Experiments
Benjamin Andrews,
National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Complexes with Multiple Inorganic Functional Groups
John F. Berry,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multiscale Geometric Methods for Noisy Point Clouds in High Dimensions
Mauro Maggioni,
mathematics and computer science,
Duke University,