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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Radiation Heat Transfer in a Suspension of Reacting Particles
Andreas Z’Graggen, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar

Topic to be announced.
Nick Seymour, University of Southampton,
12:00pm 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,
3:00pm 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 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 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 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 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 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Robust Welfare Guarantees in Bilateral Trading Mechanisms
Takuro Yamashita, Stanford University,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
8:00am 12:00pm
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Campus E-Waste Collection

See event detail for location
12:00pm 1:00pm
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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 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 5:00pm
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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 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 5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate

Preference for Randomization
Kota Saito, graduate students in economics, Northwestern University,
8:00pm 10:00pm
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
9:00am 10:00am
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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,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Rethinking Carbon Utilization in Human Cells
Christian Metallo, postdoctoral fellow in chemical engineering, MIT,
4:00pm 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 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 5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar

Experiments and Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt, Washtington University in St. Louis,
Friday, February 4th, 2011
11:00am 12:00pm
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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 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Investigation of the Noise Source in High-Speed Jets
Dimitri Papamoschou, UC Irvine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Semiconductor Surface Chemistry for Solar Energy Conversion
Leslie O'Leary, graduate student in chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
2:30pm 4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhani Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Monday, February 7th, 2011
4:00pm 5:00pm
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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 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 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 5:00pm
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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 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,