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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Glacial Erosion Potential across the Himalaya and Karakorum—Insights from Remotely Sensed Glacier Velocities
Dirk Scherler, graduate student in geosciences, University of Potsdam,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Nanosystems and Complexity: From 'Craft' to Technology—to New Frontiers
Michael Roukes, professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering, and codirector, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Mars Science Laboratory
Richard Cook, project manager, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,
Friday, October 17th, 2008
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics
Don Marolf, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

TeV Scale Physics from G2 Compactifications of M-Theory
Konstantin Bobkov, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Revisiting Adiabatic Shear Failure
Daniel Rittel, professor of mechanical engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar

Optimality in Movement Planning
Michael Landy, professor of psychology and neural science, New York University,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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7:00pm 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 Mars Science Laboratory
Richard Cook, project manager, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
9:00am 5:00pm
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SURF Seminar Day

See event detail for location
12:00pm 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dolan/Slater Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm 3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Atrian Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Childs Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Robles Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
2:00pm 5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
6:30pm 7:30pm
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Special CDS/CIMMS/GALCIT Seminar

Implementation of a Titan Saturn System Mission: One Giant Leap Beyond Cassini-Huygens
Kim R. Reh, research scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Boundary Behavior of Cauchy Transforms
Alexei Poltoratski, professor of mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Plume Versus Plate: Connective Interactions Beneath Western North America
Richard M. Allen, associate professor of Earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Seeking the Light of New Physics
Yuri Gershtein, assistant professor of physics, Rutgers University,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
12:00pm 1:15pm
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CMA Presents "Mathemagics: Math Made Magical!"

Arthur Benjamin, professor of mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
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12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special CDS/CIMMS/GALCIT Seminar

Titan and Enceladus: What Now Beyond Cassini-Huygens?
Jonathan Lunine, professor of planetary science and physics, University of Arizona,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar

Modeling Soot Formation in Gas Turbine Engines: An Example of Multi-Physics and Multi-Scale Fluid Mechanics
Guillaume Blanquart, graduate student in computational energy sciences, Stanford University,
3:30pm 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Is the Universe Homogeneous?
Marc Kamionkowski, Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Radar Reflection from Naturally Occurring Metal 50 Miles Up in the Sky
Paul Bellan, professor of applied physics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Expanding the Role of Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology: Infrared Photodissociation of Peptide Fragments and Surface-Induced Dissociation of Large Non-Covalent Protein Complexes
Vicki H. Wysocki, professor of chemistry, and professor and head , department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Stem and Progenitor Cell-Based Strategies for Treating Diseases of the CNS
Steven Goldman, division of cell and gene therapy, University of Rochester Medical Center,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

The Truth the Top Quark Is Hiding
Andrew G. Ivanov, research physicist, UC Davis and Fermilab,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

The 'Quixote' Myth and the New Eastern Europe: A Hermeneutic Study Based on Films
Jorge Latorre, University of Navarre,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Asymmetric Organocatalysis in Complex Target Synthesis: Progress towards the Synthesis of Diazonamide A
Robert Knowles, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Predicting Sea Ice-Climate Interactions
Cecilia Bitz, assistant professor of atmospheric sciences, University of Washington,