Institute Calendar
January 2011
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Chlorine Dilemma: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Patchy Micelles, Phase-Shifting Peptides and Nanolayer Assemblies for Tailored Delivery
Paula Hammond,
professor of chemical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines
Nergis Mavalvala,
professor of physics,
MIT,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
UAVSAR: An Airborne Window on Earth Surface Deformation
Scott Hensley,
assistant section manager,
Radar Science & Engineering,
JPL,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Counterterms in N=8 Supergravity
Michael Kiermaier,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bulk and Surface Modifications of WO3 for Photoelectrochemical O2 Evolution at pH=0
Qixi Mi,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Optogenetic fMRI: Genetically Targeted Brain Circuit Analysis and Debugging
Jin-hyung Lee,
assistant professor of electrical engineering, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and radiology,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
UAVSAR: An Airborne Window on Earth Surface Deformation
Scott Hensley,
assistant section manager,
Radar Science & Engineering,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
8:30am
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2:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arakelyan Family 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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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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2:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
9:30am
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GPS Lunch Seminar
Climate Change and Energy Solutions
Frank H. Shu,
professor of physics and astronomy, emeritus,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Micro- and NanoFluidics for Cellular Studies
Shuichi Takayama,
associate professor biomedical engineering and of macromolecular science and engineering,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proposed experiments to probe the neutral edge modes and quantum statistics in topological superconductors
Eytan Grosfeld,
postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter theory ,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Of Ice-Water Interactions in Arctic and Alpine Landscapes: Rapid Arctic Coastline Erosion and the Sliding of Glaciers
Robert S. Anderson,
professor of geological sciences and Fellow INSTAAR,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Seminar
Why Are Chemotaxis Receptors Clustered but Other Receptors Aren't?
Ned Wingreen,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Dynamic Contracting Under Adverse Selection & Renegotiation
Lucas Maestri,
Yale University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sparsity, Convexity and L1 Minimization in Blind Source Separation
Jack Xin,
professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for New Sources of CP Violation with DZero Detector
Guennadi Borissov,
Lancaster University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
9:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Performance of Building Structures in the Mw 8.8 February 27, 2010, Great Maule Earthquake
Jose Restrepo,
professor of structural engineering,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
UV-to-FIR Analysis of IRAC Sources in the Extended Groth Strip
Guillermo Barro Calvo,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Visual Pattern Recognition in Google Goggles
Hartmut Neven,
Director of Engineering,
Visual Search,
Google,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyons, twists and topological codes
Hector Bombin,
postdoctoral researcher,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar
Nanowires for Electrochemical Energy Storage: High Performance Lithium-ion Batteries
Candace Chan,
graduate student in chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Semiconductor Nanocrystal Optoelectronics for Energy Efficiency
Hilmi Volkan Demir,
professor of nanotechnology,
Bilkent University / NTU,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"Molecules Under Tension: Theory of Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy"
Gerhard Hummer,
senior investigator and chief,
Theoretical Biophysics Section,
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Jonathan Lunine,
professor,
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The 'Unity of the Occult Sciences': A View from late Seventeenth-century Britain
Michael Hunter,
University of London,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Properties of the Weakly Coupled Fibonacci Hamiltonian
Anton Gorodetski,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A 3D Thermoelectrochemical Model of a Li-ion
Jake Christensen,
principal engineer,
the Bosch Research and Technology Center,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization: Galaxy Buildup in the First Gyr
Garth Illingworth,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field-Scale Bioremediation of a Uranium-Impacted Aquifer under Natural and Artificially Stimulated Conditions
Kate Campbell,
research biogeochemist,
Water Resources,
U. S. Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploring New Ligand Designs for Asymmetric Catalysis
Sukwon Hong,
professor of chemistry,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Treatment Response with Social Interactions: Partial Identification via Monotone Comparative Statics
Natalia Lazzati,
Eller College of Management,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Weigle Lecture
Two Short Stories: A Master IgH V(D)J Recombination Control Region and the B Cell Translocatome
Fred Alt,
Department of Genetics,
Children's Hospital and Immune Disease Institute,