Institute Calendar
May 2009
Friday, May 8th, 2009
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Lanthanide-Based Receptor Sites for Bacterial Spore Detection
Morgan Cable,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:40pm
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5:40pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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5/9
12:00am
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
9:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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11:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Malkchyan/Kara-Simonyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vartanian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanian/Toroussian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bautista Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 10th, 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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
Peter Ward,
professor of biology and of Earth and space sciences,
University of Washington, Seattle,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
9:00am
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9:01am
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Models for X-Ray Binaries: Galactic and Extragalactic Populations
Tassos Fragos,
graduate student,
Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Microelectromechanical Systems for Biomolecular Sensing and Manipulation
Qiao Lin,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
High Throughput Bacterial Electron Cryotomography
Grant Jensen,
associate professor of biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
400 Years Later: What Does the Hippocampus Do?
Larry Swanson,
professor of biological sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition
Gary A. Williams,
professor of physics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Synergistic Microbial Interactions at the Microscale: Links between C, N and S Cycles in Marine Sedimentary Environments
Victoria Orphan,
assistant professor of geobiology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics, QCD Radiation and MadGraph/MadEvent at the LHC
Johan Alwall,
postdoctoral scholar,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Precision Measurement in Biology
Stephen Quake,
professor of bioengineering,
Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Photoelectrochemistry of Microstructured Silicon Materials for Solar Energy Applications
James Maiolo,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design
Richard Murray,
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Microarray and Genome-wide Sequencing Approaches to Characterizing DNA Binding Molecules
James Puckett,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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
On Rocky Exoplanets
Geoff Marcy,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Core Formation and Heavy Element Enrichment in Giant Gaseous Protoplanets
Ravit Helled,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Fluid Approaches to Optics and Imaging
Jason Fleischer,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays
Alberto Sesana,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Single Molecule Probing of Dynamic Conformation, Molecular Interactions and Dynamic Localizations In-vitro, in Live Cells and in Small Organisms
Shimon Weiss,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Asymptotics of OPRL for a Weight with a Jump: (Lack of) Universality and Clock Behavior
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor of mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Proton and Ion Conductivity in Microporous Materials
John McKeen,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
An Iterative Approach to De Novo Computational Enzyme Design and the Successful Application to the Kemp Elimination
Heidi Privett,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Is the Universe Homogeneous and Isotropic?
Marc Kamionkowski,
Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Micro-Granular Adsorptive Membrane Filtration: A New Hybrid Membrane/Adsorbent Process for Water Treatment
Mark Benjamin,
professor of civil and environmental engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Thermoelectric Materials by Design
Jihui Yang, Ph.D.,
staff research scientist,
Materials and Processes Laboratory,
R&D Center, GM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Gated Molecular Baskets
Jovica D. Badjic,
professor of chemistry,
Ohio State University,
5:15pm
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6:15pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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CPET Seminar
The Do's and Don'ts of Teaching Statements
Andrea Armani,
assistant professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
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, May 14th, 2009
8:00am
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1:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
New Directions in Urban Planning
Stefanos Polyzoides,
Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Engineering Ligand Control of RNA Interference
Chase Beisel,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
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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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Predicting and Tuning Multicellular Dynamics
Anand R. Asthagiri,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Making an Escape: Neural Control and Biomechanics of Flight Initiation in Drosophila
Gwyneth Card,
postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Origin and Evolution of the White Wolf Fault and the Maricopa Basin
Jason Saleeby,
professor of geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered
Alison Simmons,
professor of philosophy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar—cancelled
Wonwoo Nam,
professor of chemistry,
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Superfluid ^4He Matter Wave Interferometers Physics and Applications
Yuki Sato,
postdoctoral researcher,
UC Berkeley,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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