Institute Calendar
November 2010
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
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Astronomy Colloquium
Violent Events in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: From Post-T Tauri Stars to White Dwarfs
Ben Zuckerman,
professor of astronomy, emeritus,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Time Preference: Experiments and Foundations
Jawward Noor,
assistant professor of economics,
Boston Univeristy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Position-Based Cryptography: Classical and Quantum
Rafail Ostrovsky,
professor of computer science and mathematics,
Center for Information and Computation Security,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ecoclimate Teleconnections: Remote Effects of the Interactions between Ecosystems and Climate
Abigail Swann,
postdoctoral fellow in sustainability science,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Deformation at the Nanoscale: Pushing the Limits of Strength
Dan Gianola,
professor of materials science and engineering,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reprogramming the Code of Life
Jason W. Chin,
Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Medical Research Council,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Pseudoscience Wars: The Great Collision of 1950
Michael Gordin,
professor of history,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
The Road Coloring Problem and Symbolic Dynamics
Benjamin Weiss,
professor of mathematics, emeritus,
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
8:00am
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Ongoing
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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
Generational Changes in Environmental Consciousness and Attitudes
Wilton Mui,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Using Cognition to Regulate Emotion: From Basic Mechanisms to Mechanistic Breakdowns
Kevin Ochsner,
associate professor of psychology,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Plastic Antibodies: Recent Advances in synthetic Receptors for Biological Macromolecules
Kenneth Shea,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Early Precambrian Whiffs of Oxygen as Metasomatic Artifacts
Tim Raub,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Bose-Einstein Condensates and Synthetic Gauge Fields
Ian Spielman,
fellow,
Joint Quantum Institute,
NIST and the University of Maryland,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exact Results in Black Hole Entropy Counting
Joao Gomes,
University of Paris,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Queueing Games in Call Centers
Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan,
graduate student in computer science,
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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GALCIT Colloquium
Microlocal and Dynamic Modes: Two Tools for Quantitative Flow Analysis
Peter Schmid,
École Polytechnique,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tiratsuyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Jenn Wortman Vaughan,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Castos Rivadulla,
University of the District of Columbia,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kostickyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
10:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cochran/Marshall Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Luna Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Golnazarian 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: Khachader Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
10:00am
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Video and Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Compact Representation of Data with Statistical Independence Measures
Fei Sha,
assistant professor of computer science,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Investigation of the Role of Hydrides in Zirconocene Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization
Steven Baldwin,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
FemtosecondTime-Resolved Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Anions: Electron Solvation and Isolated Chromophore Dynamics
I-Ren Lee,
graduate student in chemistry and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductivity in the Repulsive Hubbard Model: An Symptotically Exact Weak Coupling Solution
Srinivas Raghu,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Life between the Snowballs
Tanja Bosak,
assistant professor of geobiology,
MIT,
4:15pm
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