Institute Calendar
March 2007
Friday, March 9th, 2007
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9:30am
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10:00pm
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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
Reconstructing 1/2 BPS Geometries from N = 4 SYM
Samuel Vazquez,
department of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity?
Kirill Krasnov,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the K-Version Least-Squares Finite Element Models of Problems in Mechanics
J.N. Reddy,
professor and chair of mechanical engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Alkane C-H Activation at a Pt(II) Center
George Chen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
The Race to Detect Dark Matter with Noble Liquids, and the Status of XENON10
Thomas Shutt,
associate professor of physics,
Case Western Reserve University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
8:00am
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3/13
5:00pm
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10:00am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
9:00am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Competition and Ultrasensitivity in the Regulation of Wee1
James E. Ferrell,
professor,
department of molecular pharmacology and department of biochemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrated Models of Scenes and Objects
Antonio Torralba,
research scientist,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Contextuality and Nonclassicality
Robert Spekkens,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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
Measuring Cosmological Parameters
Wendy Freedman,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Market Mechanisms for Agent Coordination
Sven Koenig,
associate professor of computer science,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Chlamydia Ribonucleotide Reductase: A Free Radical Enzyme without a Free Radical
Professor Astrid Graslund,
department of biochemistry and biophysics,
Stockholm University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
8:00am
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3/16
5:00pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Fundamentals and Application of Slow and Fast Light
Professor Robert Boyd,
The Institute of Optics,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diversity in Young Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Puzzle
Victoria Kaspi,
associate professor,
department of physics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Processes: Progress, Applications and Mechanistic Studies
Stephen L. Buchwald,
professor of chemistry,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Orbital Ordering in Perovskites
John B. Goodenough,
professor of mechanical engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Weigle Lecture
Building Molecules to Image Synaptic Plascitity and Tumors In Vivo
Roger Tsien,
investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:40am
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12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meet the Players: Direct Identification of Microorganisms Involved in Biogeochemical Cycling and Contaminant Degradation
Michael Friedrich,
group leader,
terrestrial microbiology,
Max-Planck-Institut Fuer,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
From Fluctuations to Phenotypes: Understanding Discrete and Stochastic Dynamics in Biological Circuits
Michael Samoilov,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Optimization Strategies for Plant Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Microorganisms
Mattheos Koffas,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
SUNY Buffalo,
Friday, March 16th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Extremal Black Holes Entropy and Topological Strings
Kirill Saraikin,
department of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Wnt and Notch Signaling Pathways in Development and Cancer of the Gut
Dr. Hans Clevers,
Hubrecht Laboratory,
the Netherlands,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Metallointercalators for DNA Base Mismatch Detection
Brian Zeglis,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Roglin/Mason Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:45am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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