Institute Calendar
Winter 2011-2012
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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11:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Weapons of Math Induction for the War on Error
Robert A. van de Geijn,
Professor,
Department of Computer Sciences and Texas Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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Thesis Seminar
Accelerating the interplay between theory and experiment in protein design
Alex Nisthal,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
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
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Surprises in ionic driven assembly of membranes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz,
Lawyer Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Materials Science,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
May the force be with you: searching for ion channels that respond to pressure
Ardem Patapoutian,
Professor,
Department of Cell Biology,
Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Dynamics of the Outer Solar System
Ruth Murray-Clay,
Astrophysicist and Lecturer,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interaction of Planning Areas in Cerebral Cortex
R. Chess Stetson,
Computation & Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technolgoy,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Fiction Reading
Fiction Reading
Mat Johnson,
Novelist; Creative Writing Program Professor,
The University of Houston,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
7:00am
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2/26
11:59pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integrability and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence
Bogdan Stefanski,
City U. London,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Environmental Sciences & Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture
Thermo TRP ion channels: what garlic, mint, and wasabi tell us about sensing temperature and pain
Ardem Patapoutian,
Professor,
Dept. of Cell Biology,
Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Changing Visions of the Last Supper in Early Modern Europe
Anthony Grafton,
Professor of History,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Informing Climate and Other Contentious Decisions Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty
Robert Lempert,
Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition,
Professor,
Pardee RAND Graduate School,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
How neurotransmitter release is synchronized at synapses
James Rothman,
Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Visualizing drug transport in vivo: developing mechanistic simulations for drug design
Greg Thurber,
NIH Career Development Fellow,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Semianr
Digital Image Correlation A Revolution in Experimental Mechanics
Phillip Reu,
Sandia Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Gravitational Waves and the Search: Into the Future
Rana Adhikari,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
LIGO,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Consistent truncation of d=11 supergravity on AdS_4 x S^7
Krzysztof Pilch,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Detecting Majorana fermions at the topological superconductor surface
Suk Bum Chung,
Dr.,
Condensed Matter Group ,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Aerospace Structural Scaling and Performance Metrics
Martin Mikulas,
Senior Research Fellow,
National Institute of Aerospace,
4:00pm
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2/28
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Oxidative Chemistry of Dioxo-Osmium Complexes
Hema Karumadasa,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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