Institute Calendar
January 2007
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop: "Snooze Your Way to Success: How to Improve Your Sleep Habits"
Tim Cunningham,
sleep disorders specialist,
Huntington Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Integration of Cytoskeletal Systems in Directed Cell Migration
Clare Waterman-Storer,
associate professor of cell biology,
the Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Risk, Reward, and Information: fMRI Studies of Learning and Decision Making
Russell Poldrack,
associate professor of psychology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW Scattering
Benjamin Grinstein,
professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Engineering Protein-based materials through coiled-coil motifs
Kechun Zhang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Superpolynomial Speedups Using Almost Any Quantum Circuit
Aram Harrow,
lecturer,
department of computer science,
University of Bristol,
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
The Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective
Timothy Heckman,
professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Andrew Murray,
professor of molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
The Hidden Lives of Proteins: Translating Mechanical Forces into Biochemical Signal Changes (technical lecture)
Professor Viola Vogel,
department of materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Uniqueness Results for CMV Operators with Matrix-Valued Verblunsky Coefficients
Maxim Zinchenko,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
Caltech,
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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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Trace Metals and the Terrestrial Nitrogen Cycle: Uptake of Essential and Toxic Axoanions in Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Anne M. L. Kraepiel,
visiting research scholar,
department of ecology and evolutionary biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Large-Scale Structures in COSMOS: Galaxy Evolution and Dark Matter
Nick Scoville,
Moseley Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Jason Rhodes,
scientist in cosmology,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Manipulating Light on a Silicon Chip
Michal Lipson,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar—CANCELLED
Aseem Z. Ansari,
assistant professor of biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
9:00am
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2:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
In Toto Imaging of Vertebrate Development
Sean G. Megason,
postdoctoral fellow,
Biological Imaging Center, Beckman Institute,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Interactive Dynamics of Striato-Cortical Circuits in Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making: Computational Models and Empirical Tests Thereof
Michael Frank,
assistant professor of psychology,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Upliftment of Himalaya, Intensification of Monsoon, and Change in Ecosystem
Prasanta Sanyal,
assistant professor of geology and geophysics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Something Old, Something New: Resurrecting Detector Technologies in Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics
Juan Collar,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Towards Nanoscale Manufacturing Driven by Biological Motors and Bacterial Superglues
Professor Viola Vogel,
department of materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Two Thousand Sunsets on Mars: Twin Rovers and Their Excellent Adventures
Bruce Banerdt,
planetary geophysicist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New Dimensions for Wound Strings and D-duality
Eva Silverstein,
professor of theoretical physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Osmotic Propulsion
John Brady,
professor of chemical and mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optics and Quantum-Optics in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Stephan Koch,
physics department,
Philips-University Marburg, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Heinrich Hertz's Road to the Principles of Mechanics
Jesper Lutzen,
visiting professor of history, Caltech,
and professor of mathematics,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Interfacial Energetics of Chemically Modified n-Si(111)
Stephen Maldonado,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
How Carbon Burns Determine the Black Hole Central Engine and Type Ibcd Hypernova of GRB 060218/SN 20006 aj
Gerald Brown,
distinguished professor of physics,
State University of New York at Stony Brook,
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)
Two Thousand Sunsets on Mars: Twin Rovers and Their Excellent Adventures
Bruce Banerdt,
planetary geophysicist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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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, January 28th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Two-photon physics at e+e- colliders
Bertrand Echenard,
postdoctoral scholar,
division of pyhsics, mathematics and astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: If Nature Can Do It, Why Can't We?
Etsuko Fujita,
research scientist,
chemistry department,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,