Institute Calendar
Spring 2010-2011
Friday, April 15th, 2011
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
A Unique Opportunity: Scientific Research and Human Space Flight in the Shuttle Era
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Greening Your Ride: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Transportation Sector
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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4/30
5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tessier 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: Zhang Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Orshan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 17th, 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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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Ground-based Exoplanet Imaging: New Science Programs and the Prospects for Discovery
Justin Crepp,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
The Role of Fluctuation Theorems in Experimental Biology
Johan Paulsson,
associate professor of systems biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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4/22
5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Software Synthesis using Automated Reasoning
Ruzica Piskac,
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Epeirogenic Transients Related to Mantle Lithosphere Removal in the Southern Sierra Nevada Region
Jason Saleeby,
professor of geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Multi-Electron Reactivity from Redox-Active-Ligand Complexes of Electrophilic Transition Metals
Alan F. Heyduk,
associate professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Nonlocal Maximum Principles for Active Scalars
Alex Kiselev,
professor of mathematics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
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
Computing Complex Dynamic Phenomena: Dynamic Brittle Fracture, Heat Flow over Growing Cracks, and Enhanced Mixing of Granular Matter
Florin Bobaru,
associate professor of engineering mechanics,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Game Theory for Security: Lessons Learned from Deployed Applications
Milind Tambe,
professor of computer science and industrial and systems engineering,
USC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Biophysics and Protein Engineering with Non-Canonical Amino Acids
James A. Van Deventer,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Improving Telescopes with Quantum Repeaters
Daniel Gottessman,
Perimeter Institute,
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.
Michael F. A'Hearn,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mapping Biological Pathways and Networks Using Yeast Functional Genomics
Brenda Andrews,
Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Jonathan Fortney,
assistant professor of astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Density Functional Simulations of Phase Change Materials: Amorphization and Crystallization in Nanoseconds
Robert O. Jones,
professor,
Juelich Research Center,
Institut fur Festkorperforschung (IFF) ,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Discovery of Vaniprevir (MK-7009): A Macrocyclic Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4a Protease Inhibitor
John A. McCauley,
senior research fellow in medicinal chemistry,
Merck & Co., Inc.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Herschel Observations of Molecular Oxygen in Orion
Paul Goldsmith,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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