Institute Calendar
December 2010
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/1
8:00am
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12/3
5:00pm
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The Connection Between Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxies Since z~1
Stephanie Juneau,
University of Arizona,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemistry and Electronics of the Ge(111) Surface
David Knapp,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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 Colloquium
Star Formation in Extreme Environments
Jessica Lu,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mutualistic Interactions between Free-living Marine Phytoplankton and Heterotrophic Bacteria
Erik Zinser,
assistant professor of microbiology,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Characteristics of Urban Nonpoin Source Pollution: A Case Study in Korea
Kangwoo Cho,
graduate student,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12/4
10:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Probabilistic Computations Despite Cognitive Limitations
Edward Vul,
assistant professor of psychology,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Parts, Devices and Chassis in Support of Metabolic Engineering
Kristala Jones Prather,
professor of chemical engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Towards Understanding the Biological Function of Hopanoids
David Doughty,
postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change
David Rutledge,
Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, December 3rd, 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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11:30am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mkhitarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium—Thesis Defense
Shock- and Impact-driven Flows in Mie-Gruneisen Fluids (Thesis Defense)
Geoff Ward,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Dynamics of Ligand Binding to Nitric Oxide Synthase
Charlotte Whited,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Can Neurons Sense Millimeter Waves?
Peter H. Siegel,
Faculty Associate ,
Electrical Engineering ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Leibniz and His Followers on Action and Reaction: The Origin of Kant's Third Law of Mechanics
Marius Stan,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 4th, 2010
8:00am
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12/7
5:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sulakhyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kasabyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mkhitaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, December 6th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Atmospheric Reactive Trace Gas Observations in Field and Laboratory Studies using CF3O-Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
John Crounse,
graduate student in chemistry and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Real-time, Self-Learning River Basin Living: Challenges
Jorg Imberger,
Center for Water Research,
University of Western Australia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Seeing and Controlling Topological Insulator Surface Electrons
David Hsieh,
research fellow in physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Precise Near-Infrared Radial Velocities with the TripleSpec Exoplanet Discovery Instrument (TEDI)
Philip Muirhead,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designed Metalloproteins: From Mononuclear Zinc Hydrolase to Copper Nitrite Reductase Mimics
Vincent Pecoraro,
professor of chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Signs of a Hidden Sector from Supersymmetry(s)
Clifford Cheung,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Charge and Energy Transport in Molecular Junctions
Pramod Reddy Reddy,
professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Endeavors towards Bridging the Gap between Homo and Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis with Organometallics
Kuiling Ding,
professor of organic chemistry,
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
Andrew Childs,
assistant professor,
Institute for Quantum Computing and Combinatorics & Optimization,
University of Waterloo,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
CANCELED
Hans Zinneker,
SOFIA Observatory, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Adiabatic Frequency Conversion
Haim Suchowski,
graduate student in physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Transient Resonances in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Tanja Hinderer,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games (Part 2)
Sachin Adlakha,
postdoctoral scholar in computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Dynamical Signature of Abasic DNA Damage: A Computational Study of Coumarin 102 in DNA
Steven A. Corcelli,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
John Boothroyd,
professor of microbiology and immunology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Viennese Waltz or Pasadena Rave? How a Score of Injected, Polymorphic "Kinases" Determines the Character of Toxoplasma's Dance with Its Host
John Boothroyd,
professor of microbiology and immunology ,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
8:00am
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12/10
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Joel Hartman,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,