Institute Calendar
February 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Detection of Information Flow and Anonymous Networking
Lang Tong,
Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor,
Engineering,
Cornell Univerwity,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the Sahel, Past, Present and Future
Alessandra Giannini,
associate research scientist,
International Research Institute for Climate and Society,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: A New Technique for Determining the Stereochemistries of Chiral Molecules
Philip J. Stephens,
professor of chemistry,
USC,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
7:00am
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11:00pm
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory: An Early postmortem and prospects for future observations of CO2 from space
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar - CANCELED
Geoffrey Schoenbaum,
professor of anatomy and neurobiology,
University of Maryland School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
'Sub-micron Scale Trace Element Distributions in Zircon' and 'The North-South Gradient in Free Tropospheric CO2: Implications for Surface Exchange'
Amy Hofmann and Gretchen Aleks,
graduate students,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Field Theory for the LHC
Aneesh Manohar,
professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
7:00am
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11:59pm
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Kerr/CFT Correspondence
Andrew Strominger,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proposed Experiments to Observe Non-abelian Quantum Statistics
Ady Stern,
professor of condensed matter physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Studies of Human Diseases at the Intersections of Engineering, Life Sciences, and Medicine
Subra Suresh,
professor of engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy
Daniel Garber,
professor of philosophy,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemical Detection of DNA-Binding Proteins
Natalie Muren,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:59pm
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
9:30am
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5:30pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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