Institute Calendar
January 2005
Friday, January 21st, 2005
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Tectonic Evolution of the Cenozoic Kongur Shan Extensional System, Western China
Alex Robinson,
Graduate student,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California at Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Computation and Anyons
Alexei Y. Kitaev,
Professor ,
Physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Oceans: Today's View from Space with Supercomputers
Ichiro Fukumori,
principal scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:00pm
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Electron Spin Injection from Ferromagnetic Contacts into Semiconductors
Darryl Smith,
Dr.,
Physics Department,
LANL,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Strained Silacycles: A Powerful Platform for Asymmetric and Tandem Reaction Design
James L. Leighton,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From Mutant Fruit Flies to Autonomously Walking Robots
Roland Strauss,
Professor,
University of Wuerzburg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Tripodal Ligand Designs and Potential Applications to Syngas Conversion
Bruce MacKay,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar - SPEAKER CHANGE
"Current Status of MiniBooNE"
Tony Thomas,
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,
4:00pm
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8:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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11:00pm
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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)
Oceans: Today's View from Space with Supercomputers
Ichiro Fukumori,
principal scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:30pm
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5:00am
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
11:00am
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3:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:45pm
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7:45pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
7:30am
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5:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Chromosome Structure and Gene Regulation
Jonathan Widom,
Professor,
Biochemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Biodegradation, the Origin of Heavy Oil, and the Deep Biosphere of Earth and Mars
Steve Larter,
Canada Research Chair in Petroleum Geology,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Precision Low Energy Experiments in the LHC Era
Yury Kolomensky,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
7:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar - CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Wim van Dam,
TBD,
Department of Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The Status of Virgo
Paolo Lapenna,
Dr.,
European Gravitational-Wave Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mechanisms of Apoptosis from Structural Biology
Yigong Shi,
Prof.,
Department of Molecular Biology, Lewis Thomas Laboratory,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
BNL SLAC E158: A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle at Low Q^2
David Relyea,
PDS,
Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Highly Nonlinear Polymer Dynamics
Ronald G. Larson,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
7:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Lax pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System via Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemical Reactivity of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
R. Lee Penn,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Small Molecule Replacements of Transcriptional Activation Domains
Anna K. Mapp,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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