Institute Calendar
Winter 2010-2011
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Novel Materials for Energy Conservation and CO2 Remediation Systems
Amin Salehi-Khojin,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical and biomolecular engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Living at the Edge of the Smart Grid: Empowering Personal Energy Systems
Eve Schooler,
principal engineer,
Intel Research,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantifying the Relation Between Work and Information-recent Results Using the Smooth Entropy Approach
Oscar Dahlsten,
research fellow,
Centre for Quantum Technologies,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Enzymes, Equations, and Embryos
Yoosik Kim,
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecules in the Quantum Regime
Jun Ye,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Rules of Meiotic Chromosome Fragmentation
Andreas Hochwagen,
Whitehead Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Jean-Luc Margot,
associate professor of Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 16th, 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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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Daniel Fabrycky,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Bethe-Sommerfeld Conjecture for Periodic Operators
Leonid Parnovski,
professor of mathematics,
University College London,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Early Science from the Pan-STARRS PS1 Telescope
Nick Kaiser,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Direct CO2 Capture from Air Using Moisture Swing Absorption
Klaus Lackner,
professor of geophysics, Earth, and environmental engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience of Advanced Bulk Thermoelectrics
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,
professor of chemistry,
Northwestern University,
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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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Expanding the Molecular Genetics Toolkit in Flies and Mice: Transgenesis and Mosaic Analysis
Bosiljak Tasic,
Department of Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Planning Science: Orchestrating Surface Operations for the Most Complicated Rover Yet
Kim Lichtenberg,
mission engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines
Nergis Mavalvala,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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2/19
7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
From Crust to Core, GRAIL Reveals the Lunar Interior
Sami Asmar,
GRAIL Deputy Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Exploring Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale in Thermoelectric Materials
Austin Minnich,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Jenn Wortman Vaughan,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Vibration Reduction for Turbomachinery Bladed Disks under Changing Excitation using Piezoelectric Materials
George A. Lesieutre,
Penn State University,
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
Beyond the Signal Sequence Hypothesis: Nuclear Export and Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeting of mRNAs
Alex Palazzo,
assistant professor of biochemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Multifaceted Behavior of a Bis(phosphido)pyridine Pincer Ligand, and Catalysis by Cationic (Diimine)palladium(II) Hydroxy Dimers
Matthew S. Winston,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Non-cooperative Perspective of 'Cooperative' Communications
Rahul Jain,
assistant professor of electrical engineering and industrial and systems engineering,
USC,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
D-branes, Quivers, and Surface Operators
Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu,
Rutgers University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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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)
From Crust to Core, GRAIL Reveals the Lunar Interior
Sami Asmar,
GRAIL Deputy Project Scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:30pm
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Saturday, February 19th, 2011
8:00am
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10:00pm
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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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11:00am
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Badalian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gasparyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mananyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Young Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 20th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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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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