Institute Calendar
October 2010
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The Growth of Dead Galaxies in Clusters over Most of Cosmic Time
Greg Rudnick,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
University of Kansas,
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 Colloquium
A Possible Explanation for Puzzling Properties of X-ray Bursts
M. Coleman Miller,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods
Thomas Wiseman,
associate professor of economics,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Learning Tree and Latent Tree Graphical Models: Consistency,Sample Complexity and Error Rates
Anima Anandkumar,
assistant professor of electrical and computer science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of the Deep Ocean in Setting the Last Glacial Maximum Climate
Jess Adkins,
professor of geochemistry and global environmental science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Redox Neutral Reaction Cascades and New Concepts in Asymmetric Catalysis
Daniel Seidel,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Rutgers University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Insecticide Resistance in Bed Bugs
Morgan Raven,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:21am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Basis of Goal-Directed and Habitual Control in the Human Brain
John O'Doherty,
professor of psychology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sediment Yield and Spatial Characteristics of Active Earthflows, Eel River, California
Ben Mackey,
postdoctoral scholar in geology and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
High-Temperature Superconductivity: Emergent Phases, Broken Symmetries, and the Power Grid
Laura H. Greene,
professor of physics,
Center for Emergent Superconductivity, Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology,
University of Illinois,
5:00pm
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6:15pm
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CMA Presents "Petroleum, NASA, and the 21st Century Oil Spill Response"
Ira Leifer,
Associate Researcher,
Marine Sciences Institute,
University of California Santa Barbara,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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10/22
12:00am
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
8:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Singular Monopoles and Gauge Theories with Impurity Walls
Sergey Cherkis,
Trinity College, Dublin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Point Contact Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Andreev Reflection, Multiband Superconductivity, and Magnetism
Laura H. Greene,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
New Models and Methodologies for Group Decision Making, Rank Aggregation, Clustering and Data Mining
Dorit Hochbaum,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
USC,
1:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Roche Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkisian/Torosyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Akopyan 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
Concerted Proton-Electron Transfer Reactions of Iron-Porphyrin Complexes and Organic Substrates Relevant to Biological Redox Processes
Jeffrey J. Warren,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Early Kant's (Anti-)Newtonianism
Eric Watkins,
professor of philosophy and science studies,
UC San Diego,
4:30pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
9:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
10:00am
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davtyan/Karayan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Francisco Valero-Cuevas,
associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biokinesiology and physical the,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport
Mark Rudner,
postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter theory,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
In Situ Mineral Carbonation in Peridotite for CO2 Capture and Storage
Peter B. Kelemen,
professor of geochemistry,
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
How Does Knowledge Diffuse? The Case of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States, 1880-1930
Shawn Kantor,
UC Merced,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Convex Duality in Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization
Marc Teboulle,
professor of mathematical sciences,
Tel-Aviv University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
KATRIN and Project 8
Benjamin Monreal,
assistant professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:40pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran,
John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Vision of a Visipedia
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
David Gossett,
graduate student in quantum information science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Matthew Scott,
principal investigator,
Department of Developmental Biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,