Institute Calendar
February 2009
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Land Water Storage Variations and Contributions to Sea Level Rise from GRACE
James Famiglietti,
associate professor of Earth system science and of civil and environmental engineering,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Biosynthetic Investigations of the Antibacterial Siderophore-Peptide Conjugate Microcin E492m
Elizabeth Nolan,
Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Simplicity of Binary Black Hole Coalescence and its Implications for Detection
Deirdre Shoemaker,
Center for Relativistic Astrophysics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Electrical Microstimulation and fMRI
Nikos Logothetis,
Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Tubengin, Germany,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
9:00am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An Index Formula in Terms of the Lifshits-Krein Spectral Shift Function
Fritz Gesztesy,
professor of mathematics,
University of Missouri,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Nature and Evolution of the Most Luminous Galaxies
Andrew Blain,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Chemical Probes of Carbohydrate Synthesis in Mycobacteria
Laura L. Kiessling,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
The Development of Raptor Codes
Amin Shokrollahi,
professor of philosophy,
laboratoire des mathematiques algorithmiques,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Characterization of Snowpack and Its Variability in Mountainous Terrain
Steve Margulis,
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering,
UCLA,
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, February 12th, 2009
5:30am
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10:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lessons from the History of Air Pollution in Los Angeles for a Warming World
Chip Jacobs,
Bill Kelly,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal-Induced and Metal-Free Hydrogen Reactivity
Heinz Berke,
professor of inorganic chemistry,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
New Insights into the Mechanism of Retroviral Genome Packaging and Assembly
Michael Summers,
professor of chemistry,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Growing the Puna: Geologic Perspectives on Development of the Southern Central Andean Plateau
Scott Hynek,
graduate student in geology,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Many-Body Quantum Interference: Seeing Strongly Correlated States of Ultracold Atoms
Ehud Altman,
senior scientist,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
5:30am
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10:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Framework for the Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem
Piyush Kumar,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Steady States and Phase Transitions in the Presence of Non-Equilibrium Noise
Ehud Altman,
professor of submicron electronics,
Weizmann Institute of Sciences,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lagrangian Dynamics of Intermittent Turbulence: Models and Synthesis
Charles Meneveau,
professor of mechanical engineering,
the Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Searching for Dark Matter with Liquid Argon—The DEAP/CLEAN Project
Bei Cai,
postdoctoral scholar in particle astrophysics,
Queen's University,
8:00pm
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11:30pm
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Barsoumian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karapetian/Asatryan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:15pm
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7:15pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
8:00am
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9:00am
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9:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
9:00am
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5:15pm
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9:00am
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5:15pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Role of Protein Folding Energetics in ER-Associated Protein Misfolding Disease
Luke Wiseman,
postdoctoral scholar,
NYU Medical School,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Hector Bombín,
postdoctoral scholar,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
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
Stellar Populations with HST: Probing the History of Galaxies
Julianne Dalcanton,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Washington,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Observations of Regolith Thermal and Electrical Properties and Atmospheric Humidity with the TECP at the Phoenix Landing Site
Troy Hudson,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Resonance Performance Enhancement with Applications in Nano Bio and Chemical Sensors
Lambertus Hesselink,
professor of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Collisional Excitation of Interstellar Matter: Potential Energy Surfaces, Cross Sections, Rates
Laurent Wiesenfeld,
professor of astrophysics,
Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Spatio-Temporal Compartmentalization of Physiological Processes during Muscle Precursor Differentiation
Ertugrul Ozbudak,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Stowers Institute for Medical Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
DM-TPC: A Novel Approach to Directional Dark Matter Detection
Gabriella Sciolla,
assistant professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Conversible Worlds: Competing Paradigms in the Eighteenth Century
Jon Mee,
University of Warwick,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
10:00am
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2:00pm
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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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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope: Resolving Galaxy Formation on Sub-kpc scales via Gravitational Lensing
Mark Swinbank,
Institute for Compuational Cosmology,
University of Durham,