Institute Calendar
March 2010
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
10:30am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Development of Versatile Strategies for Aryne Annulation: Applications in Methodology and Natural Product Total Synthesis
Kevin Allan,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Prefrontal Cortex and the Evaluation of Decision Costs: Anatomy of a Cognitive Miser
Matthew Botvinick,
Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Toward Synthetic Molecular Machinery of Biological Complexity
Rebecca Schulman,
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Structural Robustness: Analysis and Design
Franco Bontempi,
professor of engineering,
University of Rome La Sapeinza,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
11:00am
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5:00pm
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods and Semiconductor Device Simulation
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Extreme Starburst Galaxies at Low and High Redshift
Anna Franckowiak,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Dana Angluin,
professor of computer science,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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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
Age-Dating Stardust: Possibilities from Comet Wild 2's Micron-sized Refreactory Particles
Hope Ishii,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Reactions of Heterocycles with Electrophilic Ferrocene Diamide Complexes
Paula Diaconescu,
assistant professor of inorganic chemistry,
UCLA,
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Effective Models of Nonlinear Structures Like Fluid Evolution or Riemannian Geometry Using Algebraic Topology
Dennis Sullivan,
SUNY Stony Brook, CUNY Graduate Center,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nano- and Opto-Mechanical Transducers for Quantum Information Processing
Peter Rabl,
research scholar in physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Neurobiological and Neuroimmune Approaches to Understanding Autism
David Amaral,
professor psychiatry and behavioral science,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Using Troposperic Methane, Stratosperic Aerosol, and Clouds as Tracers of Circulation of Titan
Mate Adamkovics,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Diamagnetism and Pairing in Hole-Doped High Tc Superconductors
Lu Li,
research fellow in condensed matter physics,
MIT,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Challenges and Perspectives in Multi-Phase Flow Modeling: Sub-Grid Accurate and Gradient-Augmented Methods
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 Formation of Spheroids, Black Holes, and AGN: A Coherent Picture?
Rachel Somerville,
associate astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Institute Seminars
Evolutionary "Arms Races" and What They Can Teach Us about HIV Infection
Sara Sawyer,
assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Gnanadesikan Anand,
lecturer in atmospheric and oceanic sciences,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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