Institute Calendar
March 2010
Monday, March 15th, 2010
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Micro- and Nanostructures as Electrochemical Biosensors
Shana O. Kelley,
professor of biochemistry,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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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 Demographics of Exoplanets
Scott Gaudi,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cell-type Specific mRNA Profiling in Mouse Models of Neurodegeneration
Myriam Heiman,
postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Transfer at C. elegans Synapses
Anusha Narayan,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Past 30,000 Years on the Southern Chile Margin: Ventilation, Productivity and Weathering
Zanna Chase,
assistant professor of chemical oceanography,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Systems Biology of the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock
Michael Rust,
postdoctoral scholar in molecular and call biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Seismology of the Sun and Stars
Laurent Gizon,
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthetic Means to Reach Natural Ends
Patrick Harran,
professor of organic chemistry,
UCLA,
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
8:00am
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3/28
5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
New Frontiers for Ligands of Adenosine and P2Y Receptors
Kenneth Jacobson,
Chief, Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry,
Molecular Recognition Section,
NIDDK, NIH,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar
Mechanisms of Kinesin Motor Regulation
Sarah Rice,
assistant professor of cell and molecular biology ,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Design of D-peptide Inhibitors of HIV Entry
Michael Kay,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Utah School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Drift, Jump, Mix: Jet-Topography Interactions in the Southern Ocean
Andrew F. Thompson,
NERC postdoctoral fellow in applied mathematics and theoretical physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Olfactory Object Recognition and Generalization in the Insect Brain
Kai Shen,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Using NASA Satellites to Study the Earth's Climate
Dr. Eric J. Fetzer,
AIRS Atmospheric Science,
JPL,
Friday, March 19th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Special Lunch Talk: "The Global Financial Crisis—What the @#$%*! Happened?"
Dori Levanoni,
partner and codirector of Global Macro,
First Quadrant, L.P.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Effects of Replication Fork Instability on Cancer and Aging
Eric Brown,
assistant professor of cancer biology,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bioconjugates of Mismatch-Specific Rhodium Metalloinsertors: Improving Cellular Uptake and Biological Activity
Curtis J. Schneider,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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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)
Using NASA Satellites to Study the Earth's Climate
Eric J. Fetzer,
AIRS Atmospheric Science,
JPL,
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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3/22
6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lam Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:59pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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7:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Brooks Institute Student(s) - PERMISSION
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow,
visiting lecturer in biology,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
11:00am
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9:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shackeroff/Reese Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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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.
Claudia Maraston,
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation,
University of Portsmouth,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Jillian Bellovary,
graduate student in astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Kamran Behnia,
research director at CNRS,
UPRS-Quantum Physics Laboratory,
Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles ,
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulation: From Statics to Dynamics
Peter Love,
assistant professor of physics,
Haverford College,
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
High-z Galaxy Formation in the Standard Cosmology
Avishai Dekel,
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Critical Functions for Notch Dimerization in T Cell Development and Transformation
Warren Pear,
professor of pathology and laboratory medicine,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Multivalent Interactions Interpret the Histone Code at the Nucleosome Level
Alexander Ruthenburg,
postdoctoral associate in chromatin biology and epigenetics,
the Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Organometallic Chemistry and Biology—A Fruitfull Alliance for Catalysis
Jorg Eppinger,
professor of chemistry,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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