Institute Calendar
October 2010
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10/8
12:00am
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
12:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Tree Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor Formalism
Oliver Schlotterer,
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich,
11:00am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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9:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Silicon and Oxygen Abundances in Planet-host stars
Erik Brugamyer,
UTexas,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Solving for Engineering Constraints in Product and Market Designs
Stephen Cunningham,
OpenX,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Micromechanics of Polycrystals: Full-Field Computations and Second-order Homogenization Approaches
Ricardo A. Lebensohn,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkissian/Khodabakshian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Creating and Destroying Inorganic Mesostructures with Light
Bryce Sadtler,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hougannisyan/Davtyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Does Kant have a Pre-Newtonian Conception of Force?: How the Balance Argument Works
Sheldon Smith,
associate professor of philosophy,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
From Past Time to Prime Time—Leveraging Social Networks for Commercial Value
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Mena-Carta Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Garcia Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Asadoorian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Adamyan 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: Mendelyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Soro Sepanian 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: Soro Sepanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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8:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bogdanovski/Cobb Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Derohanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Madoyan/Meymarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Samvelian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nagapetyan/Antebelian 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: Derbedrossian/Berghoudian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 11th, 2010
9:00am
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4:00pm
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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 Tea Talk
Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution
Ji-hoon Kim,
Stanford 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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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Josh Tenebaum,
associate professor of cognitive science and computation,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Systems
Stefan Kehrein,
professor of theoretical physics,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Super-rotation of the Earth's Inner Core: A Geodynamic Perspective
Mathieu Dumberry,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Alberta, Edmonton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
A Nanoscience Approach to Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
Thomas E. Mallouk,
professor of materials chemistry and physics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Scheduling for the Tail: Robustness versus Optimality
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:40pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Some Applications of Distributed Estimation and Control
Raffaello D'Andrea,
Dynamic Systems and Control,
ETH Zurich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Faint Ly-alpha Emitters: Galaxy Building Blocks and the Engines of Reionization
Alan Dressler,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Deciphering Excitatory Synapse Development
Matthew Dalva,
assistant professor of neuroscience,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar—postponed
Wade Fisher,
assistant professor of high energy physics,
Michigan State University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
How Brains Think About Minds
Rebecca Saxe,
assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Spectrum of Skew-Shift Schrodinger Operators Contains Intervals
Helge Krueger,
Simons Foundation Fellow,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae
Lars Bildsten,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Attributes (joint paper with Diego Klabjan and Asher Wolinsky)
Wojciech Olszewski,
professor of economics,
Northwestern University,