Institute Calendar
December 2010
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Diffusion and Delocalization for Band Matrices
Laszlo Erdoes,
professor of mathematics,
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Effect of News on Trading, Adverse Selection and Dynamic Signaling
Brendan Daley,
assistant professor of economics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Dislocations from First Principles: Connecting Defects to Macroscale Behavior in Real Materials
Dallas R. Trinkle,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
From Protein-polymer Conjugates to Protein-nanoarrays: Integration of Synthetic Polymers and Biomolecules for Applications in Medicine
Heather D. Maynard,
professor of chemistry,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar - CANCELED
Julia Slingo,
chief scientist,
Met Office (the United Kingdom's National Weather Service) ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transport Vesicle Biogenesis: Mechanism, Control and Disease Connections
Randy Schekman,
HHMI Investigator and professor of cell and developmental biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Morphodynamics of Supraglacial Streams
Leif Karlstrom,
graduate student in Earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
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
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars
Candice Hansen,
principal scientist,
Planetary Ices Group,
JPL,
Friday, December 10th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Strategies and Interactive Beliefs in Dynamic Games
Pierpaolo Battigali,
Bocconi University,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Genetic Control of T-Cell Proliferation with Synthetic RNA Regulatory Systems
Yvonne Chen,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Targeting Synthetic Efficiency: Application of Transition Metal Catalysis in Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products and Exploration of Catalysts for Anti-Markovnikov Olefin Hydration"
Guangbin Dong,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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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)
The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars
Candice Hansen,
principal scientist,
Planetary Ices Group,
JPL,
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yakoubian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Akhverdyan Wedding 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: A. Garibyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
10:30am
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7:00pm
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Video and Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni (approved)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, December 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Aerosol Nucleation Measurements from the CLOUD Experiment at CERN
Joachim Curtius,
professor of physics,
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences,
Goethe-University Frankfurt,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Massive Black Hole Recoil
Javiera Guedes,
graduate student in astronomy,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Single Molecule Dynamics of Translation Initiation and Elongation
Joseph (Jody) Puglisi,
professor of structural biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Brain
John Disterhoft,
professor of physics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds (joint with Nuno Cassola and Jakub Kastl)
Ali Hortaҫsu,
professor of economics,
the University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
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
Subsystem and Stabilizer Codes with Spatially Local Generators
Sergey Bravyi,
postdoctoral researcher,
IBM Research,
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
Supercomputing Stars
Casey Meakin,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electron Transport in Nanometer Scale Carbon Materials
Philip Kim,
professor of physics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis
Chiara Cirelli,
associate professor of psychiatry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Chiara Cirelli,
Medical Science Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
8:00am
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmology from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters Detected with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Neelima Sehgal,
Stanford University,
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Grigoryan Wedding 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: Nazarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sunday, December 19th, 2010
10:00am
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Babikian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zarabian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hovsepian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Marcondes Wedding Party
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2:30pm
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Baptism Photography on Campus: Ovsepyan Wedding Party
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3:00pm
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