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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Radiation Heat Transfer in a Suspension of Reacting Particles
Andreas ZGraggen,
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Parallelism and Time in Hierarchical Self-Assembly
David Doty,
postdoctoral scholar on computing and mathematical sciences,
Caltech,
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
Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Cold Atoms
Jiannis Pachos,
reader in theoretical physics,
University of Leeds,
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
Topic to be announced.
Jason Tumlinson,
Space Telescope Science Institute ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Stochastic Electrochemistry—Single Molecules and Particles
Allen J. Bard,
professor and faculty director, Center for Electrochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Nature and Nurture: Generation of Histocompatible Pluripotent Cells and Role of Epigenetic Memory
Kitai Kim,
Children's Hospital Boston,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Ulyana Dyudina,
staff scientist in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Robust Welfare Guarantees in Bilateral Trading Mechanisms
Takuro Yamashita,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
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8:00am
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2/8
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Universal Occurrence of Localization in Continuous Random Schrodinger Operators
Abel Klein,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Physical and Chemical Toeholds for Exoplanet Bioastronomy
Tori Hoehler,
research scientist and principal investigator in bioenergetics,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Consuming Passions: Learning from Las Vegas and Los Angeles
Daniel Horowitz,
professor of American studies,
Smith College,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Polar Codes and Power Blackouts
Edmund Yeh,
associate professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and statistics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Defining and Scaling Coupled Hydrological-biogeochemical Processes Responsible for the Worlds Largest Mass Poisoning
Benjamin David Kocar,
postdoctoral fellow,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Preference for Randomization
Kota Saito,
graduate students in economics,
Northwestern University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Nanotechnology for Sustainability: Environment, Water and Climate
Mamadou Diallo,
visiting associate in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Rethinking Carbon Utilization in Human Cells
Christian Metallo,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Archean Mass-Independent Sulfur Isotope Record: Prospects and Limitations
Itay Halevy,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
A Tale of Quantum Viscosity in Universal Fermi Gases
John Thomas,
Fritz London Professor of Physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Experiments and Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt,
Washtington University in St. Louis,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Wilsonian and Holographic Renormalization Groups
Joe Polchinkski,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Investigation of the Noise Source in High-Speed Jets
Dimitri Papamoschou,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Semiconductor Surface Chemistry for Solar Energy Conversion
Leslie O'Leary,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Modeling Microbial Cooperation
4:30pm
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhani Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The AGN-Starburst Connection in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters from Multiwavelength Data
David Atlee,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Ali Khademhosseini,
assistant professor,
Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
A Magnetic Analog of the Isotope Effect in Cuprates
Amit Keren,
professor of physics,
Technion, Israel,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Bioengineering Tools for Mapping and Mending Dysfunctional Brain Circuits
Viviana Gradinaru,
research associate,
CNC Center,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Follow the C: Development of Integrated "Omics" and Geochemical Methods for Carbon Cycle Analysis
Jillian Banfield,
professor,
Department of Earth & Planetary Science and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management,
UC Berkeley,