Institute Calendar
March 2011
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Chemodynamical Studies of the Milky Way Disk at the Gaia Era
Daisuke Kawata,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A Simple Method for In-situ U-Th-He Dating
Pieter Vermeesch,
RCUK Academic Fellow,
School of Earth Sciences,
Birkbeck College, University of London,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Extending General Equilibrium Theory to the Digital Economy
Vijay Vazirani,
professor of computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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CACR & CMS Seminar
Computer-assisted Biomedical Image Analysis
Metin Gurcan,
director of the Clinical Image Analysis Lab and associate professor of biomedical informatics,
Ohio State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Non-equilibrium Dynamics of DNA Nanotubes
Rizal Hariadi,
graduate student in applied physics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Abundant Electrocatalysts for Storing Solar Energy in Hydrogen
James McKone,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 26th, 2011
10:00am
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3/27
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Michio Kaku,
professor of theoretical physics,
City College of New York of University of New York,
Sunday, March 27th, 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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Monday, March 28th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Pre-Main Sequence Stellar Rotation and Star-Disk Interaction
Nairn Baliber,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Robert Nowak,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar
Approximate Mechanism Design Without Money
Ariel Procaccia,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Himalayan Orogenesis and Its Impact on the Carbon Cycle
Christian France-Lanord,
CNRS Research Director,
CRPG Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Approximate Mechanism Design Without Money
Ariel Procaccia,
research fellow,
Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS),
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Integral Absorbing Boundary Conditions in the Time Domain
Francisco-Javier Sayas,
associate professor of mathematical sciences,
University of Delaware,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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 Birth Environment of the Solar System
Fred C. Adams,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Seeing Magnetic Light: Quantifying and Enhancing Magnetic Dipole Emission
Rashid Zia,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Expanding the Network of Advanced GW Detectors
Jay Marx,
LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mitochondria and Neurodegeneration
Hugo Bellen,
professor of developmental biology,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Paul Hayne,
postdoctoral scholar in geology and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Kosher Pork
Allan Drazen,
professor of economics,
University of Maryland,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Show Me the Money: How Federal Funds Come to JPL"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Dr. Richard O'Toole,
Manager,
Office of Legislative Affairs,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Small Star Opportunity to Find and Characterize Habitable Planets
Jacob Bean,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Formal Verification of Software Infrastructure: From Science to Engineering
Adam Chlipala,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The First Room Temperature Continuous Wave (CW) Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) and High Efficiency Blue and Green GaN LEDs
Chun-Yen Chang,
professor,
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Novel Carbon Aerogel Architectures for Energy Storage Applications
Theodore F. Baumann,
chemist, Advanced Materials Synthesis Group,
Chemical Sciences Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Lecture: The Crisis at Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant
Joseph Shepherd,
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dean of Grad,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
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, March 31st, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Genomics
Paul Blainey,
postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Multiscale Strategies for Modeling Proteins and Liquid Water
M. Scott Shell,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
New Tools for Understanding Mitigating Rock Falls in Yosemite National Park
Greg Stock,
geologist,
National Parks Service, Yosemite,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Near-Earth Comets and Asteroids
Donald K. Yeomans,
senior research scientist and supervisor for the Solar System Dynamics Group,
JPL,