Institute Calendar
October 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Interpreting the Variability of Oceanic Oxygen
Curtis Deutsch,
assistant professor,
atmospheric and oceanic sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Ultrahigh Density Magnetic Recording Technology
Mark Kryder,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Putting the Pieces Together: Modeling Integrated Cognition
David Danks,
associate professor of philosophy,
Carnegie Mellon University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Global Water Issues
Zack Lebo,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Completion of a Programmable DNA-Binding Small Molecule Library
Carey Hsu,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
The Visual Ethology of Fruit Flies
Michael Dickinson,
Zarem Professor of Bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
How Do Emotion and Motivation Affect Information Processing in the Brain?
Luiz Pessoa,
associate professor of neuroscience,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Emergence of Life at a Submarine Alkaline Hydrothermal Vent
Michael Russell,
senior research fellow,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: First Light
Peter Michelson,
professor of physics,
Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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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Friday, October 31st, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Index for Nonrelativistic Superconformal Field Theory—from LLM to ABJM and BL
Yu Nakayama,
department of physics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Hatice Ozsoy,
postdoctoral fellow,
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL),
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Conformal Collider Physics
Diego Hofman,
graduate student in physics,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Investigating Structure-Function Relationships in Ion Channels Using Unnatural Amino Acids
Amy Eastwood,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlinear Dynamics in Granular Systems
Surajit Sen,
professor of physics,
SUNY—Buffalo,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Investigations into Palladium Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylation
Nathaniel Sherden,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Ongoing
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