Institute Calendar
April 2007
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gharib Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:45pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Clive Bramham,
department of biomedicine,
University of Bergen, Norway,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Solving Intermediate Vision by Nonlinear System Identification
Jack Gallant,
associate professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization of MSSM Scalar Masses: Unwelcome News from the Hidden Sector
Andrew Cohen,
department of physics,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Weigle Lecture
Our Multiple Defenses against Cancer
George Klein,
Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center,
Karolinska Institute,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Ramifications and Braid Groups
Sergei Gukov,
associate professor of theoretical physics and mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Mapping of Probabilities: A Theory for the Interpretation of Uncertain Physical Measurements
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
10:00am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Mechanical and Thermal Interface Properties of Dense Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Tony Tong,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
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
New Windows into the z~6 IGM with High-Resolution Spectroscopy
George Becker,
postdoctoral reasearch associate,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution in Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
"Magnetic" Components of Gravitational Waves and Their Effect in the LIGO-VIRGO Response Functions
Professor Leonid Grishchuk,
Cardiff University and Moscow State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Old Questions, New Tools, and Unpredicted Answers
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado,
professor of neurobiology and anatomy,
The University of Utah,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Large Time Fluctuations of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process
Alexei Borodin,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Controlling Cell Behavior through Genetic Engineering and the Regulation of Endogenous Gene Expression
Charles A. Gersbach,
department of molecular biology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes?"
Professor Kerry A. Emanuel,
department of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Lyman-alpha Emission from the Intergalactic Medium
Juna Kollmeier,
postdoctoral fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites
Jeffrey Long,
professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Watson, Crick, and the Mushroom Cloud
Soraya de Chadarevian,
department of history and the New Center for Society and Genetics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Molecular Model of the Airway Surface Layer of a Lung
Michael Rubenstein,
professor of chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Winter Stratospheric Clouds and Dynamics during the Eocene Epoch
Rob Korty,
postdoctoral scholar in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Mixing in the B_s System
I. Joseph Kroll,
professor of physics,
University of Pennsylvania,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 20th, 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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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Overcoming Obstacles with Graph-Based Programming Models
Professor Scott B. Baden,
department of computer science and engineering,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Metastable Quivers in String Compactifications
Bogdan Florea,
research associate,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Formation of Oriented Precursors in Flow-Induced Polymer Crystallization: Experimental Methods and Model Materials
Lucia Fernandez Ballester,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Rethinking Biased Estimation: Improving Maximum Likelihood and the Cramèr-Rao Bound
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanisms of Gating of Mechanosensitive Channels of Large Conductance (MscL)
Xi Chen,
associate professor,
department of civil engineering and engineering mechanics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Surface Functionalization of Silicon Nanoparticles
David Gleason-Rohrer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Calvin Johnson,
associate professor of physics,
San Diego State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
The Transformation Design Method and Metamaterials: Tools to Realize Invisibility Cloaks and Other Interesting Devices
David Schurig,
postdoctoral fellow,
Duke University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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