Institute Calendar
February 2007
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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Group Theory Seminar
Unipotent Classes in Simple Algebraic Groups
Gary Seitz,
professor of mathematics,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Sparsity Recovery in the High-Dimensional and Noisy Setting
Martin Wainwright,
assistant professor,
department of electrical engineering and computer science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Exploring the Chemistry of Biotic Interactions
Jerrold Meinwald,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Erkki Ruoslahti,
professor,
Burnham Institute for Medical Research,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
8:00am
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop: "Stress Relief Skills 101"
Randi Friedland,
psychologist,
private practice,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Metals with Memory: How these Amazing Materials Remember their Shape
Samantha Daly,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Synthetic Biological Circuits for Energy and Healthcare
Professor James Liao,
department of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Testing the Equivalence Principle for Dark Matter
Marc Kamionkowski,
Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt: Coming This Summer to a Solar System Near You
Marc Rayman,
PSE Mission and science specialist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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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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9:00pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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
Moduli Stabilization in Nongeometric Backgrounds
Katrin Becker,
professor of physics,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Emergence of Spin-Half Fermion Vortices and the Vortex Metal
Assa Auerbach,
professor of physics,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Special Seminar
Intrinsic Noise Properties of Atomic Point Contact Displacement Amplifiers
Konrad Lehnert,
associate fellow of JILA and assistant professor of physics,
NIST,
University of Colorado,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Reliability Assessment of Microelectronic Packaging and MEMS
Soon-Bok Lee,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Effects of Hot Spots on Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanic-Hydrothermal Systems: Results of the 2005–06 GalAPAGoS Expedition
Rachel Haymon,
professor of marine geology and geochemistry,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Folding Dynamics of Four-Helix Bundle Proteins
Tetsunari Kimura,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Paul Langacker,
professor of theoretical elementary particle physics,
the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for Advanced Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Lasers
Professor John Bowers,
department of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Becoming African in America
James Sidbury,
associate professor of history,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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)
The Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt: Coming This Summer to a Solar System Near You
Marc Rayman,
PSE Mission and science specialist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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12:15pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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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, February 26th, 2007
8:00am
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8:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Analysis of a Sparse gPC-FEM for PDE Problems with Stochastic Data
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
From Proteins Searching Target Sites on DNA to Conductivity of Nanowires and Beyond
Alexander Grosberg,
professor of physics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Scale of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant within a Landscape
Michael Salem,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
8:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CACR Seminar
User-Oriented Supercomputing: How to Increase Language Usability without Sacrificing Performance
Professor Nikolay N. Mirenkov,
department of computer software,
University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
In Search of Memory Traces
Richard Thompson,
professor of behavioral neuroscience,
USC,
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Quantum Mechanics in the Information Age
Charles Marcus,
professor of physics and director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Complexion and Classification: Narratives of Skin Color in Historical Sources
Martha Hodes,
associate professor of history,
New York University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 28th, 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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lagrangian Tori and Spectra for Non-Selfadjoint Operators
Michael Hitrik,
associate professor of mathematics,
UCLA,