Institute Calendar
January 2011
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Science and Politics of Soil
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Information in Protein Sequences: Combinatorial and Statistical Protein Design
Thomas Magliery,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Integrating Immunology and Engineering for Biopharmaceutical Drug Development
Sai Reddy,
postdoctoral scholar in chemical and biomedical engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Burial and Erosional Stripping of the Southern Sierra Nevada by the Eastern San Joaquin Basin in Relation to Mantle Lithosphere Removal
Zorka Saleeby,
geologist,
Tectonics Observatory,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Imaging the Surfaces of Stars
John D. Monnier,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate—cancelled
Terence Johnson,
Department of Economics,
University of Maryland,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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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
Harvesting Solar and Thermal Energy with Photonic Nanostructures
Sang Eon Han,
postdoctoral associate in mechanical engineering,
MIT,
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Free Energy and Dissipation Out of Equilibrium
David Sivak,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Molecular Simulation of Non-equilibrium Hypersonic Flows
Thomas E. Schwartzentruber,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Power of the Force: Probing Transcription and Riboswitch Folding with High-resolution Optical Tweezers
William Greenleaf,
research fellow in chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Highly Selective Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for Ethenolysis
Renee M. Thomas,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Standard-Based 60GHz Transceivers for Uncompressed High Definition A/V and Ultra High Speed Data Networking
Sohrab Emami,
chief architect and cofounder,
SiBEAM Inc.,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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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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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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, January 30th, 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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
From Particles to People: The Laws of Nature and the Meaning of Life
Sean Carroll,
senior research associate in physics,
Caltech,
2:45pm
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4:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Prevalence and Properties of Outflowing Winds at z = 1
Katherine Kornei,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
The Quest for Ultimate Sensitivity of Nonlinear Label-free Optical Imaging in Biology and Medicine
X. Sunney Xie,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Mineralogic Record of Aqueous Environments on Early Mars
Bethanny L. Ehlmann,
Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow,
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Linear and Piecewise Linear Data Analysis
Arthur Szlam,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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