Institute Calendar
February 2011
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
From Crust to Core, GRAIL Reveals the Lunar Interior
Sami Asmar,
GRAIL Deputy Project Scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:30pm
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Saturday, February 19th, 2011
8:00am
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10:00pm
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Badalian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gasparyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mananyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:45pm
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5:15pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Young Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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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Sunday, February 20th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Tuning magnetism in FeAs-based materials via tetrahedral structure
Johnpierre Paglione,
assistant professor,
Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials Department of Physics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Multiscale Computational Simulation of Progressive Building Collapse
Sherif El-Tawil,
professor of civil and environmental engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Creating a Sustainable Energy Future
Sossina Haile,
professor of materials science and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Thermochemical Fuels
Sossina Haile,
professor of materials science and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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
Quantum Proofs for Classical Theorems
Andrew Drucker,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
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.
Laird Close,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Theory of Multiexciton Generation at the Nanometer Scale
Eran Rabani,
professor of chemistry,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From the Perifery through the Protocerebrum: Tracing Olfactory Circuits in the Fly Brain
Vanessa Ruta,
Columbia University Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Gerald Schubert,
professor of Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
Krishan Khurana,
research geophysicist,
Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics & Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
God, Math and Multiverse
Satyan Devadoss,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Williams College,
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:45am
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2:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Spectroscopic Identification of Massive Young Stellar Objects in the Galactic Center
Solange Ramirez,
IPAC,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Inverse Spectral Analysis of Finite Spring Mass Systems
Rafael del Rio,
IIMAS-UNAM,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Constraints on the Birth Environment of the Solar System
Fred Adams,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Firm-based Measurements of Market Power in Transmission-constrained Electricity Markets
Ross Baldick,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insights Derived from Studying the Signature of the MJO in Satellite and Lightning Observations
John Wallace,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Six Degrees of Separation
James M. Mayer,
professor of chemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Three-Dimensional Structures for Storing, Generating and Harvesting Photons and Electrons
Paul V. Braun,
professor materials science and engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Montana Repeal the Physics of Climate? Market of Fundamentalism and the Rise of Anti-science in the United States
Erik Conway,
JPL,