Institute Calendar
March 2011
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3/9
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
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IST Lunch Bunch
The Economics of Net Neutrality
Simon Wilkie,
executive director,
Center for Communication Law and Policy,
USC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement and Renormalization in Many Body Systems
Brian Swingle,
graduate student in physics,
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
The Evolution and Explosion of Mass-Accreting Pop III Stars
Ken'ichi Nomoto,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Ionization Potential of Very Large Atoms and Why Density Functional Theory Works
Kieron Burke,
professor of "heretical" physical and computational chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
High Throughput Interaction Profiling Provides Mechanistic Insights into Key Bacterial Cellular Process
Athanasios Typas,
postdoctoral researcher in microbiology and immunology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India
Rohini Pande,
professor of public policy,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets: New Insights on the Remarkable Planetary System of Bright Star HR8799
Ben Zuckerman,
professor of astronomy,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Hermitian Matrix Model with External Source: Critical Case with r-Airy Kernel
Seung Yeop Lee,
Sherman Fairchild Research Fellow in Mathematics,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanistic Investigations into the Palladium Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Alkylation of Ketone Enolates using the PHOX ligand Architecture
Nathaniel Sherden,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Alba Engagement Photo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Metallicity Distribution Function of the Milky Way Halo, as Determined from the Hamburg/ESO Survey
Norbert Christlieb,
University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Environment, Agriculture, and Food Nexus
Pamela Martin,
assistant professor of geophysical sciences,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Imaging the Early Stages of Behavioral Learning
Todd Roberts,
Duke Institute for Brain Science,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Complex Molecule Synthesis as a Fuel for Discovery
Neil K. Garg,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Asset
M. Keith Chen,
associate professor of economics,
Yale School of Management,
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Limits of Communication
Alexander Sherstov,
Microsoft Research,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
A Clean-Slate Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using On-Off-Division Duplex
Dongning Guo,
associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Hot Dolomite Explodes! Evidence of Ancient Earthquakes on the Naukluft Thrust, Namibia
Christie Rowe,
associate researcher,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Messy Magnets and Dirty Superfluids
Gil Refael,
associate professor of condensed matter physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic C-theorems
Robert Myers,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Mechanism Design Under a Budget
Yaron Singer,
graduate student in computer science,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Computational Modeling in High-Frequency MEMS Resonator Design
Sanjay Govindjee,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Origin of Productive Selectivity in Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts
Benjamin K. (Keith) Keitz,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Observations of the Charging and Discharging Processes of Lithium Ion Batteries
Jian Yu Huang,
staff scientist ,
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies ,
Sandia National Laboratories,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
10:30am
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11:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Minasyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Healy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nikolay Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zakinyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Berberyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Berberyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Oughourian Wedding Party
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Sunday, March 6th, 2011
10:00am
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
Robert Kurzban,
associate professor of psychology,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, March 7th, 2011
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
How to Turn Graphene into a Room-Temperature Topological Insulator Using Adatoms
Jason Alicea,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Gradual Closing of the Indonesian Seaway and the Onset of Northern Hemisphere Ice Ages
Peter Molnar,
professor of geological sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Molecular Engineering of Conjugated Polymers to Reach Higher Efficiency "Plastic" Solar Cells
Wei You,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multi-scale Dynamics and Information
N. Sri Namachchivaya,
professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target
Xin Qian,
Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Eigenquakes, Gaussian Processes, and Ground Motion Simulation
Arzhang Alimoradi,
lecturer and senior research engineer,
USC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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