Institute Calendar
April 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Two-dimensional Electron Liquid State at Oxide Interfaces
Jochen Mannhart,
professor of physics,
University of Augsburg, Germany ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Research Base for FailureCriteria.com
Richard Christensen,
professor of aeronautics and astronautics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zakaryan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
New views on the rupture history of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, California
Sinan Akciz,
postdoctoral scholar,
Program in Public Health,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Access to and Redox Chemistry of Ru(I) and Os(I) Metalloradicals
Ayumi Takaoka,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
8:00am
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6:00pm
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9:30am
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3:00pm
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9:30am
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2:30pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Marasian/Delp Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Haeutyunyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Phi Mai and Anthony Gines Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Akelian/Nazarians Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bulbulyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science
David Goodstein,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Studies of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Insights From Amide-to-Ester Backbone Mutagenesis
Kristin Gleitsman,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture - CANCELED
Xiaowei Zhuang,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Genetics and Immunology of Narcolepsy and Hypocretin
Emmanuel Mignot,
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Variations in the Asian Monsoon and Their Impacts of Continental Erosion and Mountain Building
Peter D. Clift,
professor of geology and petroleum geology,
University of Aberdeen,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics
Mariangela Lisanti,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
9:00am
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3:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CPA Career Development Brown-Bag Seminar
Winnett Lounge
Is a Start-up Right for You? An Intro to Industry Science
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Simple Geometric Model for Elastic Deformations // A Verifying Compiler for DNA Chemical Reaction Networks
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing
Tom Stace,
postdoctoral research fellow,
University of Queensland,
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
Exploring the Time Domain with the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey
George Djorgovski,
professor of astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand
Jeremy Levy,
professor of physics,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
I. Ferromagnetism by Design: Understanding Bound Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots II. TDDFT Electronic Dynamics: Lifetimes of Excited States on Surfaces
Xiaosong Li,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Weber's Law Response in Wnt Signaling
Lea Goentoro,
postdoctoral fellow in systems biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters
Adam Showman,
associate professor, dynamics and evolution of planetary atmospheres,
University of Arizona,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Inelastic Dark Matter
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Marching to a Different Drummer
David Mumford,
professor emeritus,
Brown University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Best Rational Approximation of the Exponential Function on the Semiaxis and Saddle-Points for the Energy
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor,
Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
White Dwarf Binaries, Mergers, and Explosions
Marten van Kerkwijk,
professor of astronomy,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors
Roger Y. Tsien,
professor of chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Impact of Turbulence on the Intensity of Hurricanes in Numerical Models
Richard Rotunno,
senior scientist in mesoscale meteorology,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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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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Thesis Seminar
The Bulk Viscosity of Suspensions
Manuj Swaroop,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:20pm
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Thesis Defense
Formate Dehydrogenase Genes Form Termite Gut Microbiota: Insights on the Ricrobial Ecology of Acetogenic Bacteria
Xinning Zhang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Mental State Reasoning for Estabishing Innocence and Guilt
Liane Young,
postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Analytical Development and Experimental Validation of a Structural-Fuse Bridge Pier Concept
Samer El Bahey,
graduate research assistant in physics,
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering,
University at Buffalo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Establishing Cellular Positional Information through Gradient Dynamics in the Developing Fruit Fly
Marcos Nahmad,
graduate student in control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,