Institute Calendar
October 2009
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Successful Entrepreneurial Leaders: From Scrappy Founders to Polished Professional Managers
Susan Resnick West,
associate professor,
USC Annenberg School of Communication,
8:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zamarripa Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Emily Miller Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lenna Vanerian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sookiassian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Talin Zomdjian/Vosgan Naccashian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Results for Giant Arc Statistics in ~100 Clusters Observed with HST
Assaf Horesh,
graduate student,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
The How, the Where, and the Why of Oscillations in Cell Signaling
Andre Levchenko,
professor of biomedical engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Ground States and Excitations of Spatially Anisotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets
Oleg Starykh,
associate professor of physics,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Isotope Discrimination by Phylogenetically Diverse RubisCO Enzymes
Kathleen M. Scott,
assistant professor of biology,
University of Southern Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Life Emerged to Quicken the Hydrogenation of CO2 to CH3COOH and CH4
Michael J. Russell,
senior research fellow in planetary science,
JPL,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Testing Eternal Inflation with Cosmic Bubble Collisions
Matthew Johnson,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Right to Remain: New Orleans Residents Combat Attempts to Price Them Out of the City
Sakura Kone,
director,
Rebuild Green New Orleans,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Finding Structure with Randomness: Stochastic Algorithms for Computing Approximate Matrix Decompositions
Joel Tropp,
assistant professor of applied and computational mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Topic to be announced.
James Bullock,
associate professor of cosmology,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring Molecular Wheel Nanotubes Inside and Out: A Xenon Atom's View
Clifford R. Bowers,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Florida, Gainesville,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Revealing the Complexity of Structure-Function Relationships along the Insulin-Secretory Pathway Using 3-D Cellular Atlases at the Nanometer Scale
Brad Marsh,
Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland, Australia,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
9:00am
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3:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Universality Limits of a Reproducing Kernel for a Half-Line Schrodinger Operator and Clock Behavior of Eigenvalues
Anna Maltsev,
graduate student in mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
John Carpenter,
deputy director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and senior research associate in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Ocean Dynamics in the Eddying Regime
Christopher Wolfe,
postgraduate researcher,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules and Pigments Probed via Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Judy Kim,
Professor,
University of California, San Diego,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Progress Toward an Enantioselective Synthesis of Ineleganolide
Jennifer Roizen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Discovery and Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Polymers
Geoffrey W. Coates,
professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
'Value-System' Mediators of Expectancy Effects on Pain
Tor Wager,
assistant professor of psychology,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Incremental Growth of a Large Magma Chamber: Field and Analytical Studies of the Cretaceous Tuolumne Batholith, California
Vali Memeti,
lecturer in geology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine
Roger Romani,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "How to Drive a Robot"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Autonomous Mobile Robotics
Andrew Howard,
senior member of technical staff,
Computer Vision Group,
JPL,
Friday, October 16th, 2009
8:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions
Eva Silverstein,
Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Superstring in AdS4xCP3
Linus Wulff,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Bio-Inspired Aerial and Underwater Vehicles for Distributed Mobile Sensor Networking
Kamran Mohseni,
associate professor of aerospace engineering sciences,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthetic Modeling of Iron-Containing Nitrile Hydratase (Fe-NHase) and its Photoregulation by Nitric Oxide (NO): The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Michael J. Rose,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "How to Drive a Robot"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
"How to Drive a Robot"
Andrew Howard,
senior member of technical staff,
Computer Vision Group,
JPL,