Institute Calendar
April 2011
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Christian Johnson,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
A New Approach to Robustness and Flexibility in High-dimensions
Sujay Sanghavi,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Engaging Spins in Semiconductors for Quantum Information Processing
David Awschalom,
professor of physics and of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 8th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Geometric Features of Contracting Adiabatic Evolutions
Yosi Avron,
professor of physics,
Technion,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Hidden Convexity in Fundamental Optimization Problems in Power Networks
Javad Lavaeiyanesi,
graduate student in control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Regimes for Supernova-Relevant Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments at the National Ignition Facility
Aaron R. Miles,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Constructive Cortical Computation
Rodney Douglas,
professor,
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH, Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Progress Towards Carbon Dioxide Reduction Electrocatalysts: Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Bimetallic Complexes
Alicia Chang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Empire and the Politics of Information in America, 1840-1860
Peter Shulman,
assistant professor of history,
Case Western Reserve University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
8:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
8:30am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Saber Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Vote Markets
Thomas R. Palfrey,
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Mechanical architecture of cell division
Sophie Dumont,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
How to Build CCAT
Steve Padin,
senior research associate in astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
From Cellular Mechanotransduction to Biologically Inspired Engineering
Donald Elliott Ingber,
professor of bioengineering,
Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Lattice Bosons: a paradigm strongly fluctuating superconductors and "bad metals"
Assa Auerbach,
Professor,
Physics Department ,
Technion,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Pyroclastic Flow Dynamics: Insights from Laboratory Experiments
Benjamin Andrews,
National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Complexes with Multiple Inorganic Functional Groups
John F. Berry,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multiscale Geometric Methods for Noisy Point Clouds in High Dimensions
Mauro Maggioni,
mathematics and computer science,
Duke University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Charge Radius of the Proton: A 5 sigma Discrepancy?
Gil Paz,
the University of Chicago,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterization of Soft Tissue Surrogates and Brain Tissue for Development
Ghatu Subhash,
Knox T. Millsaps Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Florida,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of a Practical Scalable Synthesis of BI653048: Development of a General Catalytic Asymmetric Propargylation of Ketones
Keith R. Fandrick,
Chemical Development,
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Underwater Acoustic Channels: Opportunities for Information and Communication Theories
Urbashi Mitra,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
USC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
From Nearby Galaxies to the Reionization Epoch: The Universe as seen in Lyman-Alpha
Hakim Atek,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy for Reaction Dynamics and Interstellar Chemistry
Brooks H. Pate,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Transplanting Yeast Prion Proteins into E. Coli Cells
Ann Hochschild,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Burkhard Militzer,
assistant professor of astronomy and of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Rebel Tactics
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita,
the University of Chicago,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A_n Symmetric Biorthogonal Elliptic Hypergeometric Functions
Fokko van de Bult,
Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing Galaxies and the IGM with Lyman-alpha Absorption and Emission
Martin Haehnelt,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Optimal Compensation with Earnings Manipulation: Managerial Ownership and Retention
Thomas A. Gresik,
professor of economics,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Towards Reliable Storage Systems
Haryadi Gunawi,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Scientific Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon
David L. Valentine,
UC Santa Barbara,