Institute Calendar
April 2010
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Ten Years in the Life of a Siliceous Stromatolite from a Yellowstone Hot Spring
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Metrology with Atomic Ensembles
Eugene Polzik,
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Strings at the TeV Scale
Dieter Luest,
chair for mathematical physics, LMU-München,
and director,
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Predicting Instabilities in Granular Materials: From Granular Avalanches to Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction
Jose Andrade,
assistant professor of civil engineering,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium, Thesis Defense
Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow over a Sphere
Adam Norman,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arabyan/Zakarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Atikian/Arutyunyants Wedding 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: Minasyan/Karapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Special Seminar on the 2010 Mw7.2 Sierra El Mayor Earthquake, Baja California
Egill Hauksson,
senior research associate in geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Enantioselective Hydroformylation: Catalyst Synthesis, Application, and Mechanism
Clark R. Landis,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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)
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 17th, 2010
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Social Media + Innovation: When Is It a Business? Distilling Venture Success from Fads and Fast Growth
Oliver Starr,
chief evangelist,
Clean Green Guy, Inc.,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Heimbuch/Hasbeen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grigourtians/Zhamkockyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tai/Chien Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
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
Time Dependent Radiative Transfer in SNe Atmosphere and Cosmic Recombination Epoch: Effect on Spectra and Transition Probabilities in a True Multilevel Framework
Soma De,
graduate student in physics and astronomy,
University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Normalization Model of Attention
David Heeger,
professor of psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Comparing Several Models of Stochastic Choice Under Risk
Nathaniel T. Wilcox,
professor of economics,
Economic Science Institute,
Chapman University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Titan's Lakes: Croll-Milankovitch and Seasonal Cycles
Oded Aharonson,
associate professor of planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
A Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Nanocavity on Gold: Towards the Ultimate Nanolaser
Se-Heon Kim,
KNI Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Complex Huygens Principles as Efficient Representations of Wave Fields
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar—cancelled
Oscillons in Scalar and Gauge Field Theories: Theory and Applications in Particle Physics and Cosmology
Marcelo Gleiser,
professor of natural philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy,
Dartmouth College,
Tuesday, April 20th, 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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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Spectral FFT-Based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains
Oscar Bruno,
professor of applied and computational mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Cluster Expansions and the Stability of Topological Phases
Israel Klich,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Virginia,
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
An Overview of Results from 18 Months of Data Taking by the Large Area Telescope on Fermi
Troy Porter,
Institute for Particle Physics,
UC Santa Cruz ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
An Idiosyncratic History of Technical Developments Leading to LIGO
Stan Whitcomb,
LIGO chief scientist,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Making Eyes: Disease, Development, Regulation and Modulation
Veronica von Heyningen,
MRC Human Genetics Unit,
Western General Hospital, U.K.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Topic to be announced.
David Stevenson,
professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Activism v 2.0: Technology and Grassroots Organizing
Kalaya'an Mendoza,
regional field organizer,
Amnesty International-USA,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 21st, 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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lyapunov Exponents and Oseledets's Basis for Products of Independent Non-identically Distributed Matrices
Ilya Goldsheid,
professor of mathematics,
Queen Mary, University of London,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Novel Electro-Magnetic Phenomena: One-way-waveguides and Wireless Power Transfer
Marin Soljacic,
professor of physics,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing the Jet Collimation Region in M87 with VLBA and TeV Observations
Craig Walker,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Into and Out of the Last Glacial Maximum
Peter Clark,
professor of geosciences,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Dierk Reiff,
Dr.,
Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology,
Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscale Materials for Solar Fuel Generation
Paul Alivisatos,
professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Engineering Small Molecules and Ion Channels as Tools for Controlling Neuron Activity
Scott Sternson,
Janelia Farm Scientist,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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