Institute Calendar
Winter 2010-2011
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Crowdsourcing Visual Expertise
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
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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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Impact of Ocean Heat Transport in Warm and Cold Climates
Brian Rose,
postdoctoral fellow in atmospheric sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Integrating Surfaces with Organic Chemistry Applied to Dynamic Studies of Cell Behavior and the Development of Biomaterials for Cell Tissue Engineering
Muhammad N. Yousaf,
professor of chemistry,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Center for Genome Science,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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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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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Solar Cell Primer: From the Sun to the Lab to the Market
Dan Turner-Evans,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies: Comparing Isolated and Hickson Compact Group Galaxies
Ute Lisenfeld,
University of Granada and IPAC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Importance of Erosion at Inception of Deep-sea Channels
Andrea Fildani,
research geologist,
Chevron,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science
Mikhail Lukin,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar—cancelled
Daniel Everett,
dean of arts and sciences,
Bentley University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A New Perspective on Gluing in TQFT
Tudor Dimofte,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Price of Mediation
Adam Meyerson,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Iridium Corroles: Synthesis, Properties, Electronic Structure, and More
Joshua Palmer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Yuan-Cheng (Bert) Fung Lecture in Aerospace
Probing Mechanical Principles of Cell-Material Interactions
Huajian Gao,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Role of Z-DNA and its Binding Proteins in Immunity and Infection
Alexander Rich,
professor of biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
ATP Dependent DNA Charge Transport by the Helicase XPD
Timothy P. Mui,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Next Generation Warning and Alerting Systems
Nalini Venkatasubramanian,
professor of computer science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Incommensurabilities? Trying to Grasp Chinese Medicine in 17th-Century Europe
Harold J. Cook,
professor of history,
Brown 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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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 12th, 2011
9:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Synthetic Biology Today and Tomorrow: The Way Entrepreneurs and Visionaries Want the World to Be
10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chilalyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sedano 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: Ghoukassian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grigorian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
How Old Is the Universe? and The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
David Weintraub,
associate professor of astronomy,
Vanderbilt University,
Shing-Tung Yau,
professor of mathematics,
Harvard University,
2:45pm
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4:45pm
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Investigations of C-H Activation and the Conversion of Methanol to Triptane
Valerie Scott,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Patterns in the Dark: Understanding Galaxy Clusters and the SZ Effect
Dan Marrone,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dark Computation in the Neocortex: How the Power of the Neocortex May Mostly Reside in 'Invisible' Dendritic Computations
Bartlett Mel,
associate professor of biomedical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at $\nu$ = 5/2 and 7/3
Jing Xia,
Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar Experimental Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Building the Tibetan Plateau (and Blowing it Away)
Paul A. Kapp,
associate professor of structural geology and tectonics,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From CC Agostic Structures to CH Bond Activation
Michel Etienne,
professor of chemistry,
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels
Lexing Ying,
associate professor of mathematics and ICES,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physical Consequences of the QED Theta Angle
Stephen Hsu,
University of Oregon,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:40pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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