Institute Calendar
October 2006
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Chemical Tools for Site-Selective Protein Modification
Matthew B. Francis,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
5:15pm
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7:15pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Quest for the Ultimate Structure of Matter and the Universe: Particle Physics in China
Yifang Wang,
professor,
Institute of High Energy Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Atomistic Modeling of Nanoporous Materials and Their Properties: Layered Double Hydroxides and Composite Polymers
Muhammad Sahimi,
NIOC Professor of Petroleum Engineering and professor of chemical engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Genes Sequences, Gene Content, and Gene Order: Trying to Find a "Genomic" Record for Geobiology
Chris H. House,
assistant professor of geosciences,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Stem Cells, a Primer
David Baltimore,
president emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology,
Caltech,
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Type-II Actions from an 11-Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory
Dmitry Belov,
research associate,
theoretical physics group,
Imperial College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
In-situ Observations of Crack Propagation in Brittle Solids
Herzl Chai,
visiting associate in aeronautics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Computational Investigations into Hydride Rich Rhodium Clusters and the Reductive Coupling of CO by a Uranium(III) Species
Nilay Hazari,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
SO(10) GUT Model, Theta13, and Leptogenesis
Yingchuan Li,
department of physics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Frontiers in Radio Astronomy
Sandy Weinreb,
faculty associate in electrical engineering,
Caltech and JPL,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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10/21
5:00am
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
3:00am
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4:45pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fyke Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30am
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grycel Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00am
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11:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Two Views of Technology Entrepreneurship: Do Investors Think the Same as Entrepreneurs?
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Quiroga/Ross Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lai Party (Julie Feng/Daniel Chang)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:45pm
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1:45pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Mendez Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kwan/Potts Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:45pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yun/Chan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Watching Neural Ensembles Play: Circuit Dynamics and Population Coding in the Locust and Fruit Fly Olfactory Systems
Vivek Jayaraman,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Some Challenges for Universities in a Century of Science
Bruce Alberts,
professor of biochemistry,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Commercializing Auditory Neuroscience
Lloyd Watts,
Audience, Inc,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Anarchy from Quiver Gauge Theories
Tomer Volansky,
department of particle physics,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Unraveling the Mysteries of Copper Transfer in the Cell
David L. Huffman,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Western Michigan University,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
10:00am
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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
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale
Paul Goldbart,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois,
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
Standard Sirens and Cosmology
Daniel Holz,
department of theoretical astrophysics,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Low-Energy Electron Induced Damage of Hydrated DNA: The Role of Negative Ion Resonances and Diffraction
Thomas M. Orlando,
professor and chair,
school of chemistry and biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Biochemistry of HIV Budding
Wesley Sundquist,
professor of biochemistry,
University of Utah School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Double Chooz and Theta_13
Steven Dazeley,
research scientist,
physics department,
LLNL,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Eye Movements and Reward, Temporal States, and Context-Dependent Target Selection
Michael Campos,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
8:00am
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10/31
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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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
Turbulence and Dead Zones in Protostellar Disks
Neal Turner,
research scientist,
JPL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
First and Second Kind Paraorthogonal Polynomials and Their Zeros
Wanwah (Lilian) Wong,
graduate student in mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Inner Space of Molecules
Julius Rebek Jr.,
professor of chemistry,
Scripps Research Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Basis and Consequences of Phenotypic Variation in Vibrio Cholerae
Fitnat H. Yildiz,
assistant professor, environmental toxicology,
UC Santa Cruz,