Institute Calendar
January 2011
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
11:30am
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Su Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mars Science Laboratory: One Year Before Launch
John Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Cloaking via Change of Variables for the Helmholtz Equation
Hoai-Minh Nguyen,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emergent spacetime and quantum entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
8:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Iron Mediated Reduction Schemes of Dinitrogen and Carbon Dioxide
Caroline Saouma,
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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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Design of Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Strained Alkynes
Felix R. Fischer,
postdoctoral research fellow in chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Evolution, Risk and Rational Decision
Samir Okasha,
professor of philosophy of science,
Department of Philosophy,
Bristol University,
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be announced.
Jennifer Walker,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Computations in the Retina and Beyond
Markus Meister,
professor of molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Shedding Light on the Deep Subsurface Biosphere: Deep UV Fluorescence for the In Situ Detection of Microbes on Opaque Surfaces
Everett Salas,
postdoctoral scholar,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Force of the Dark Side
Neal Weiner,
associate professor of physics,
New York University,
Friday, January 7th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Winnett Lounge
2011 Student-Led Mini-Program Informational Meeting
Tom Prince,
director,
Keck Institute for Space Studies,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Teringalian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanics of Thin Carbon Fiber Composites with a Silicone Matrix (Thesis Defense)
Francisco Lopez Jimenez,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Thermodynamic Studies of Nematic Phase Formation Near a Quantum Critical Point in Sr3Ru2O7
Andy Mackenzie,
professor of condensed matter physics and director of pesearch,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of St. Andrews, Scotland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Solid Supported Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Matthew M. Van Wingerden,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Input Output Analysis of Power Control in Wireless Networks
Anders Möller,
Division of Optimization and Systems Theory and Department of Mathematics,
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, January 8th, 2011
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arambulo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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2:15pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
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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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex
Kwabena Boahen,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"How the Cell Smells: How Deficiencies in Primary Cilia Cause Sensory, Neural, and Renal Defects and Obesity"
Peter K. Jackson,
director and staff scientist,
Genentech, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Climate and Societies
Gerald Haug,
professor of climate geology,
Department of Climate Geology,
ETH Zurich,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Acoustic, Electromagnetic and Quantum Cloaking
Gunther Uhlmann,
professor of mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Optimal Control of Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems
Scott Moura,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Morphodynamics
Eric Mjolsness,
Professor,
Department of Information and Computer Science and Department of Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Targeting Tissue Stem Cells for Epithelial Cancer
Owen Witte,
David Geffen School of Medicine,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Francis Nimmo,
associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Metric Structures on Datasets: Stability and Classification of Algorithms
Facundo Memoli,
postdoctoral fellow computational topology,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
The Certified Reduced Basis Method for High-Fidelity Simulation in Many Query and Real-Time Applications
David Knezevic,
postdoctoral associate in mechanical engineering,
MIT,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Non-Intersecting Paths with a Staircase Initial Condition
Maurice Duits,
Olga Taussky - John Todd Instructor,
Mathematics,
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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Energetics and Potential Implications of Iceberg Calving
Jason Amundson,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysical sciences,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens
Emily P. Balskus,
research fellow in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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