Institute Calendar
Spring 2010-2011
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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11:59pm
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
8:00am
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4/23
6:00pm
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8:00am
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4/23
6:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Eternal Inflation in the Light of Quantum Cosmology
James Hartle,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness (Thesis Defense)
Nicholas Boechler,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Mechanisms of the Fuel Cell Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pt and other 8-11 Column Metal Surfaces
Yao Sha,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA-Mediated Oxidation of P53 is Regulated by DNA Sequence
Kathryn N. (Katie) Schaefer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:45pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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4/23
3:00am
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11:00pm
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4/23
1:30am
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
10:00am
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4/30
1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cui Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 24th, 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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Tuning Nitric Oxide Synthase
Charlotte Whited,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Transforming Light Polarization into Matter-spin-qubits and Back, Using Single, Semiconductor Quantum Dots
David Gershoni,
Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Algorithms, Obstructions, and Beating Exhaustive Search
Ryan Williams,
IBM Almaden Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Shri Kulkarni,
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
A Variational Understanding of the Spin Liquid State of the Hubbard Model on the Honeycomb Lattice
Bryan Clark,
postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Roles of the Greatwall, Polo and Plk4 Protein Kinases in the Centrosome Duplication Cycle
David Glover,
professor of neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Tropical Nature of Titan's Climate and Storms
Jonathan L. Mitchell,
assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Linear Algebra and Machine Learning of Large Informatics Graphs
Michael Mahoney,
research associate in mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Kant and Huygens on Rotation and the Relativity of Motion
Marius Stan,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Revealed Preference Approach to Computational Complexity in Economics
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences,
Caltech,
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
Pharmacological Behavior of Systemically Administered Nanoparticles of Defined Properties: Mechanistic Investigations at the Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Levels
Jonathan Choi,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospect of Particle Physics Experiments in China
Chen Hesheng,
professor and director,
Institute of High Energy Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spacetime Could be Simultaneously Continuous and Discrete, in the Same Way that Information Can Be
Achim Kempf,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Towards High-throughput Protein Analysis via Microfluidic Integration
Amy E. Herr,
assistant professor of bioengineering,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms Contributing to Nicotine Addiction
John Dani,
professor of neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
New Views of Lunar Surface Thermophysics and Composition from the LRO Diviner Experiment
Ashwin Vasavada,
research scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Benjamin Greenhagen,
research scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Representational Style: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters
Justin Grimmer,
assistant professor of political science,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
8:00am
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5/3
5:00pm
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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
The Road to ABT-869, an Orally Active Multi-targeted Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor
Michael R. Michaelides,
Dr.,
Global Pharmaceutical Research & Development,
Abbott Laboratories,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sphere Partitions Functions and the 3D Superconformal R-charge
Daniel Jafferis,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Pulsed Laser Desorption Enables Time-Resolved Structural Determination of Thermally Labile Chromophores
Andreas Gahlmann,
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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Astronomy Colloquium
High Resolution Imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Galaxy Clusters
Brian Mason,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
History-Dependent Risk Attitude
Kareen Rozen,
assistant professor of economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dissolved Oxygen in the Ocean: Why Is It Changing and What Can It Tell Us about Biological Productivity
Rachel Stanley,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Switches between Pluripotency and Differentiation in Open View and Behind Closed Doors in the Mouse Embryo
Magdelena Zernicka-Goetz,
Professor,
Gurdon Institute,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chiral Symmetry Breaking Order Parameters from Renormalization Group Optimized Perturbation
Andre Neveu,
University of Montpellier,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools for Studying Signaling Enzyme Function
Dustin Maly,
professor of chemistry,
University of Washington,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
8:00am
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5/1
6:00pm
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5/1
6:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Past and Future of the Linde-Robinson Coelostat
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Tapio Schneider,
Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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