Institute Calendar
February 2011
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
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Skeptics Society Lecture
How Old Is the Universe? and The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
David Weintraub,
associate professor of astronomy,
Vanderbilt University,
Shing-Tung Yau,
professor of mathematics,
Harvard University,
2:45pm
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4:45pm
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Investigations of C-H Activation and the Conversion of Methanol to Triptane
Valerie Scott,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Patterns in the Dark: Understanding Galaxy Clusters and the SZ Effect
Dan Marrone,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dark Computation in the Neocortex: How the Power of the Neocortex May Mostly Reside in 'Invisible' Dendritic Computations
Bartlett Mel,
associate professor of biomedical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Competing Phases of 2D Electrons at $\nu$ = 5/2 and 7/3
Jing Xia,
Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar Experimental Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Building the Tibetan Plateau (and Blowing it Away)
Paul A. Kapp,
associate professor of structural geology and tectonics,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From CC Agostic Structures to CH Bond Activation
Michel Etienne,
professor of chemistry,
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels
Lexing Ying,
associate professor of mathematics and ICES,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physical Consequences of the QED Theta Angle
Stephen Hsu,
University of Oregon,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Novel Materials for Energy Conservation and CO2 Remediation Systems
Amin Salehi-Khojin,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical and biomolecular engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Living at the Edge of the Smart Grid: Empowering Personal Energy Systems
Eve Schooler,
principal engineer,
Intel Research,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantifying the Relation Between Work and Information-recent Results Using the Smooth Entropy Approach
Oscar Dahlsten,
research fellow,
Centre for Quantum Technologies,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Enzymes, Equations, and Embryos
Yoosik Kim,
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecules in the Quantum Regime
Jun Ye,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Rules of Meiotic Chromosome Fragmentation
Andreas Hochwagen,
Whitehead Institute,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Jean-Luc Margot,
associate professor of Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
10:00am
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Daniel Fabrycky,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Bethe-Sommerfeld Conjecture for Periodic Operators
Leonid Parnovski,
professor of mathematics,
University College London,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Early Science from the Pan-STARRS PS1 Telescope
Nick Kaiser,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Direct CO2 Capture from Air Using Moisture Swing Absorption
Klaus Lackner,
professor of geophysics, Earth, and environmental engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience of Advanced Bulk Thermoelectrics
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,
professor of chemistry,
Northwestern University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
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11:00am
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General Biology Seminar
Expanding the Molecular Genetics Toolkit in Flies and Mice: Transgenesis and Mosaic Analysis
Bosiljak Tasic,
Department of Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Planning Science: Orchestrating Surface Operations for the Most Complicated Rover Yet
Kim Lichtenberg,
mission engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines
Nergis Mavalvala,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
From Crust to Core, GRAIL Reveals the Lunar Interior
Sami Asmar,
GRAIL Deputy Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Exploring Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale in Thermoelectric Materials
Austin Minnich,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Jenn Wortman Vaughan,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Vibration Reduction for Turbomachinery Bladed Disks under Changing Excitation using Piezoelectric Materials
George A. Lesieutre,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Beyond the Signal Sequence Hypothesis: Nuclear Export and Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeting of mRNAs
Alex Palazzo,
assistant professor of biochemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Multifaceted Behavior of a Bis(phosphido)pyridine Pincer Ligand, and Catalysis by Cationic (Diimine)palladium(II) Hydroxy Dimers
Matthew S. Winston,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Non-cooperative Perspective of 'Cooperative' Communications
Rahul Jain,
assistant professor of electrical engineering and industrial and systems engineering,
USC,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
D-branes, Quivers, and Surface Operators
Duiliu Emanuel Diaconescu,
Rutgers University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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