Institute Calendar
November 2004
Sunday, November 7th, 2004
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, November 8th, 2004
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Biotechnology in the 21st Century
Richard Scheller,
Executive Vice President,
Research,
Genentech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
The Mysterious Meanderings of Myxobacteria
George Oster,
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Heavy Quark Symmetry in Isosinglet Nonleptonic B-decays
Sonny Mantry,
MIT,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exploring Quantum Control with Quantum Information Processors
David Poulin,
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Engineers for a Sustainable World @ Caltech Lecture
International Development: A Report from the Trenches. Some Thoughts on How to Make It Work
Michael Rosberg,
Lecturer,
University of Belize,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced
Janet Shaw,
department of biology,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
QCD Physics at the Tevatron
Andrey Korytov,
Associate Professor,
Physics,
University of Florida,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mechanistic and Structural Studies of Biogenic Manganese Oxides
Samuel Webb,
Beamline Scientist,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Spatially Resolved Galaxy Dynamics at High Redshift
Reinhard Genzel,
Professor ,
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Self-Organizing Robotic Systems
Eric Klavins,
Prof.,
Electrical Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Bioactive Conformation of Somatostatin; Design of Gluosidic Mimetics; and Radial Symmetry and Aromatic Electrostatic Potentials in Bioorganic Chemistry
Ralph F. Hirschmann,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
What Every Literate Man Once Knew: Tracing Readers in Early Modern England
Steven Zwicker,
Visiting Professor of English, Caltech,
Professor of English, Washington University,
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Using Nanoparticle to Control Biomolecular Activity.
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli,
Homer A. Burnell Assistant Professor,
Mechanical & Biological Engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Complexity
John Doyle,
Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gravitational Phase Transitions from a Field Theory Perspective
Ofer Aharony,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
New Results in 4He Under Downward Heat Flow Near Tλ
Stephen Boyd,
Professor,
Physics,
University of New Mexico,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Causality and Time in String Theory and String Field Theory
Ted Erler,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Probing Protein Denatured-State Dynamics Using Electron-Transfer Kinetics
John Magyar,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
The Electron-Antineutrino Correlation in Neutron Beta Decay
Fred Wietfeldt,
Professor,
Tulane University,
Fred Wietfeldt,
Professor,
department of physics,
Tulane University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 13th, 2004
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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PHOTOGRAPHY: HAN PARTY (FAMILY PORTRAIT)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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8:00pm
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: HOLT/CARBONNIER PARTY
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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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, November 14th, 2004
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Viewing Planetary Interiors Through a Diamond Window
Wendy Mao,
Department of Geophysical Sciences,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
Is a Mathematical Theory of Cryptography Possible?
James L. Massey,
Professor of Digital Technology, Emeritus,,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Atomistic Simulations of Macromolecules
Youyong Li,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Emotional Basis of Morals
Jesse Prinz,
Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Graph Partitioning, Clustering with Qualitative Information, and Grothendieck-Yype Inequalities
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
12:01am
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11:59pm
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8:30am
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12:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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