Institute Calendar
March 2011
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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General Biology Seminar
DNA Methylation in Developing Germ Cells
Greg Hannon,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Fred Adams,
professor of physics,
University of Michigan,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
DNA-Mediated Charge-Transfer between [4Fe-4S] Cluster Glycosylases
Christine Romano,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Unpaired Spins: Probing Single-electron Chemistry by EPR
Stefan Stoll,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Structure and Radiation of Relativistic Jets
Dimitrios Giannios,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Rational and Irrational Bubbles: An Experiment
Sébastien Pouget,
professor of finance,
University of Toulouse,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Projected Changes in the Seasonal Cycle under Global Warming
Adam H. Sobel,
professor,
Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics and Department of Earth & Environmental Science,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reaction Design and Catalysis with Aromatic Ions
Tristan H. Lambert,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
8:00am
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3/27
5:00pm
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9:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
An Update on SKA
Minh Huynh,
associate professor,
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR),
University of Western Australia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Biogenesis of the OXPHOS Respiratory Chain: Modular Assembly of Cytochrome C Reductase and Cytochrome C Oxidase
Dennis Winge,
professor of medicine and biochemistry,
University of Utah Health Sciences Center,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering Artificial Proteins: Controlling Selectivity and Supramolecular Assemblies
Jin Kim Montclare,
assistant professor in chemical and biological sciences,
Polytechnic Institute of New York University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Function and Assembly of Visual Circuits in Mouse Cortex
Cris Niell,
postdoctoral researcher in physiology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
Xavier Gabix,
New York University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
WISE: The Infrared Full Sky Survey
Amy Mainzer,
principal investigator,
NEOWISE,
JPL,
Friday, March 18th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Low Coordinate Nickel: A Two-Coordinate Nickel Imide
Carl Laskowski,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Reenchanting the Reformation
Margreta de Grazia,
professor of the humanities,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Macias Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
WISE: The Infrared Full Sky Survey
Amy Mainzer,
principal investigator,
NEOWISE,
JPL,
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
1:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hedges Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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3/20
2:00am
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Poursaeed Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
Gary Taubes,
writer and journalist,
Science and Discover magazines,
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, March 21st, 2011
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters with the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey
David Sand,
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Inference of Signs of Interaction Effects in Simultaneous Games with Incomplete Information
Aureo de Paula,
Department of Economics,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Broad Fellows in Brain Circuitry Seminar
Clock Genes, Clock Cells and Clock Networks
Joseph Takahashi,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Efficient Stochastic Particle Dynamics for High-Dimensional Simulation
Matthew West,
assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
8:00am
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3/24
12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Planet Signatures in Stellar Abundances
Ivan Ramirez,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Expanding Universe of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton
Zemer Gitai,
assistant professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Combining Doppler Radial Velocities and High-Contrast Imaging: Constraints on the True Mass and 3d orbit of Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets
Justin Crepp,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
Developing an Integrated Understanding of the Immune System Using Molecular Studies, Movie-making, and Modeling
Ronald Germain,
deputy chief,
Lymphocyte Biology Section,
NIH/NIAID,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Discovery & Surprises with Small Molecules
Erick M. Carreira,
professor of organic chemistry,
ETH Zürich,
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
9:00am
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1:00pm
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9:45am
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11:45am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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