Institute Calendar
April 2011
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
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Thesis Seminar
Pharmacological Behavior of Systemically Administered Nanoparticles of Defined Properties: Mechanistic Investigations at the Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Levels
Jonathan Choi,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospect of Particle Physics Experiments in China
Chen Hesheng,
professor and director,
Institute of High Energy Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spacetime Could be Simultaneously Continuous and Discrete, in the Same Way that Information Can Be
Achim Kempf,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Towards High-throughput Protein Analysis via Microfluidic Integration
Amy E. Herr,
assistant professor of bioengineering,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms Contributing to Nicotine Addiction
John Dani,
professor of neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
New Views of Lunar Surface Thermophysics and Composition from the LRO Diviner Experiment
Ashwin Vasavada,
research scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Benjamin Greenhagen,
research scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Representational Style: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters
Justin Grimmer,
assistant professor of political science,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
8:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Road to ABT-869, an Orally Active Multi-targeted Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor
Michael R. Michaelides,
Dr.,
Global Pharmaceutical Research & Development,
Abbott Laboratories,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sphere Partitions Functions and the 3D Superconformal R-charge
Daniel Jafferis,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Pulsed Laser Desorption Enables Time-Resolved Structural Determination of Thermally Labile Chromophores
Andreas Gahlmann,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
High Resolution Imaging of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in Galaxy Clusters
Brian Mason,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
History-Dependent Risk Attitude
Kareen Rozen,
assistant professor of economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dissolved Oxygen in the Ocean: Why Is It Changing and What Can It Tell Us about Biological Productivity
Rachel Stanley,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Switches between Pluripotency and Differentiation in Open View and Behind Closed Doors in the Mouse Embryo
Magdelena Zernicka-Goetz,
Professor,
Gurdon Institute,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chiral Symmetry Breaking Order Parameters from Renormalization Group Optimized Perturbation
Andre Neveu,
University of Montpellier,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools for Studying Signaling Enzyme Function
Dustin Maly,
professor of chemistry,
University of Washington,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
8:00am
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8:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Past and Future of the Linde-Robinson Coelostat
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Tapio Schneider,
Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Process Development of a VEGF Inhibitor for the Treatment of Cancer
Michael J. Rozema,
Dr.,
GPRD Process Research & Development,
Abbott Laboratories,
1:30pm
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2:20pm
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Thesis Seminar
Directed Evolution of Cytochrome P450 for Small Alkane Hydroxylation
Mike Ming Yu Chen,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
An Aeolian Signature of the Marinoan Glaciation
Ryan Ewing,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Pushing Einstein's Boundaries: Gravitational Approaches to the Challenges of Modern Cosmology
Mark Trodden,
professor of physics and endowed chair,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Molding of the Young Bethe
Silvan S. Schweber,
professor of physics and Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas, Emeritus,
Brandeis University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Posttranslational Membrane Protein Targeting by the Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle
Peera Jaru-Ampornpan,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Frugal Auctions For Vertex Covers, Flows, and Cuts
David Kempe,
associate professor of computer science,
USC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supergravity Counterterms Versus Infinity Calculations
Kelly Stelle,
Imperial College,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Surface Chemistry at the Nanometer Scale
Peigen Cao,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exploring the Mechanics of Flying and Swimming Creatures through Canonical Examples
Jeff Eldredge,
UCLA,
3:15pm
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8:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Ligand Endocytosis and Mechanical Force in Activation of Notch Signaling
Gerry Weinmaster,
professor of biological chemistry,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Unified Approach to the Transtaganolide Natural Products
Hosea M. Nelson,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Robust System Design
Subhasish Mitra,
professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Écrasez l'infâme: Voltaire and the Battle for Religious Liberty
Edwin Curley,
professor of philosophy,
University of Michigan,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
2:00am
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kassabian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khanjian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:15pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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