Institute Calendar
October 2009
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cassidy Wedding
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik,
professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
5:30am
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11:00pm
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12:00pm
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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
All Quiet in the Outer Halo&mash;Chemical Abundances in dSphs and Outer Halo Globular Clusters
Andreas Koch,
research fellow,
University of Leicester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Highthroughput Microfluidics and Ultrafast Optics for In Vivo Compound and Genetic Discoveries
M. Fatih Yanik,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Liza Huijse,
graduate student,
University of Amsterdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation of Amphitheater-Headed Canyons on Earth and Mars
Michael P. Lamb,
assistant professor of geology,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Liza Huijse,
University of Amsterdam,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab
Robert Bernstein,
Fermilab,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
8:00am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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3:30pm
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9:00am
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3:30pm
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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
A Combinatorial Double Auction Exchange to Solve a Complex Environmental Problem: The Native Vegetation Exchange
Charles Plott,
professor of economics and political science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Xampling: Analog-to-Digital at Sub-Nyquist Rates
Yonina Eldar,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information
Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains
Joe Renes,
postdoctoral scholar,
Technical University of Darmstadt,
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
How Do Galaxies Get Their Gas?
Dusan Keres,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Designing Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage
Yi Cui,
assistant professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
BMP Antagonists and Vertebrate Development
Richard Harland,
Dr. ,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Gamma-ray Bursts
Eliot Quataert,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Particles and Gases that Disrupt Lung Development
Anthony Wexler,
professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Controlling Biomolecular Motor Nanomechanical Movements for Micro Powering, Molecular Sorting, and Biosensing
Katsuo Kurabayashi,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The future of solar energy
Harry Atwater,
Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Biodiesel Talk
Richard Nelson,
associate professor,
Engineering Extension Programs,
Kansas State University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Reconstructing the Physiology of Extinct Plants using Mathematical Modeling
Jonathan Wilson,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Using Concurrent TMS-fMRI to Study Causal Functional Interactions in the Human Brain
Christian C. Ruff,
research fellow,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Is Arctic Sea Ice Approaching a Tipping Point?
Ian Eisenman,
postdoctoral scholar in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dots for Dummies
Ramamurti Shankar,
professor of physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Architecture of the Cassini Division
Phil Nicholson,
Cornell University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric Wilson Loops in N=4 SYM and Pure Spinors
Anatoly Dymarsky,
Institute for Advanced Study,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Using the Shuttle, MIR, and ISS for Operating Micro-Gravity Engineering Research Laboratories
David Miller,
professor,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Long, Strange Road: Corroles 3
Joshua Palmer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Galstanyan Birthday Group
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