Institute Calendar
March 2009
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Partial Penetrance Facilitates the Evolution of Discrete Morphological Changes
Avigdor Eldar,
postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Chemical Approaches to Biofuels
Ronald T. Raines,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
On the Route to Mechanistic Understanding of How Targeted Nanoparticles Target Cancer Cells
Chung Hang Jonathan Choi,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ecosystem-Scale Effects of Aragonite Saturation, Temperature, and Nutrients on Coral-Reef Calcification
Jack Silverman,
postdoctoral scholar in global ecology,
Carnegie Institute,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
Dan M. Goebel,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
Friday, March 20th, 2009
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
Gene Circuit Dynamics
Elowitz Michael,
Bren Scholar and assistant professor of biology and applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Large Scale Radiating Integrated Circuits
Aydin Babakhani,
postdoctoral scholar electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Understanding π Bonding Influences on Pincer Ligand Geometry in Tantalum bis(phenolate) Complexes
Ian Tonks,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
Dan M. Goebel,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
10:30am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Comas/Allison Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
6:00am
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11:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Observing with Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics
Christopher M. Baranec,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Nature, Nurture, or Just Blind Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences
Alexander Van Oudenaarden,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Oscillations as Instruments of Sensory Selection
Charles Schroeder,
professor of psychiatry,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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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
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
Robert Gehrz,
professor of astronomy,
University of Minnesota,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Three Questions in Exoplanetary Science
John Johnson,
Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal General Biology Seminar
Transcriptional Mechanisms in Cortical Specification and Hippocampal Organogenesis
Shubha Tole,
department of biological sciences,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India,
5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Chaperone-Assisted Protein Folding in Health and Disease
Ulrich Hartl,
Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Luminescent Iridium Corroles
Joshua Palmer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
9:00am
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6:00pm
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Palomar Observatory Tour: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event
See event detail for location
- Public Event
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Miller Party (Athenaeum)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:45pm
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4:45pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kao Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, March 30th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Iron Isotopes Reveal the Conditions of Mantle Melting from Archean to Present
Nicolas Dauphas,
associate professor of geophysical sciences,
Enrico Fermi Institute, the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Corroles: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, Catalysis, and Conjugation to Proteins for Biomimetic Processes
Zeev Gross,
professor of chemistry,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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Ongoing
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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
Uncovering the Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies
Thomas J. Cox,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation in Solid-rich Feeding Zones
Sally Dodson-Robinson,
Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellow—NASA Exoplanet Science Institute,
and assistant professor (on leave),
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Running a Chemical Reaction Inside C60 with Spin Chemistry, Following the Path of Memory by Imaging mRNA with Molecular Beacons, and Designing a $1000 Genome on a Chip Through Sequencing by Synthesis
Nicholas J. Turro,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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