Institute Calendar
May 2005
Saturday, May 21st, 2005
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Spirit and Opportunity: Field Geology on Mars
Dr. Joy A. Crisp,
Mars Exploration Rover Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
8:15am
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5:15pm
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12:25pm
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1:45pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:30pm
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11:59pm
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Parity Violating Electron Scattering: Past, Present and Future
Krishna Kumar,
UMass,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Deformation and Rotation at Instantaneous and Geologic Time Scales in the Central Andes: Real-Time Oroclinal Bending and Other Conundrums
Richard Allmendinger,
Professor,
geological sciences,
Cornell University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
On the Performance of a Class of Local Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Acoustic Scattering from Elliptical Shapes.
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Theoretical and Experimental Investigations in MEMS-Based Force-Detected NMR
Ramez A. Elgammal,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Chemistry of Tris(phosphino)borate Supported Iron-Nitrogen Multiply Bonded Linkages
Steven D. Brown,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum State Reconstruction via Continuous Measurement
Andrew Silberfarb,
University of New Mexico,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Conjugated Polymer Microactuators
Elisabeth Smela,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
Genes and Molecules that Extend Lifespan: Longevity Research Comes of Age
David Sinclair,
Dr.,
Department of Pathology,
Harvard University Medical School,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Political Institutions and Group Identity
Elizabeth Maggie Penn,
Assistant Professor of Political Economy,
Department of Social and Decision Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Polarized Electron Scattering from the Vector/Tensor Polarized Deuterium Gas Target at BLAST
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
A New Way of Ticking for the Circadian Clock, FRET Analysis of PER/TIM Interactions
Pablo Meyer Rojas,
Rockefeller University,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Homeostatic Mechanisms in Algae for Trace Element Utilization
Sabeeha Merchant,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products
Jeffrey D. Winkler,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Construction of Artificial Boundary Conditions and Their Discretization for Linear (1d and 2d) and Nonlinear (1d) Schrödinger Equations
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club
Gene Therapy Clinical Trials and Tribulations
Donald Kohn,
Dr.,
Head of the Division of Research Immunology/Bone Marrow Transplantation,
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environmental Cooperation and Economic Fairness
Gretchen Aleks,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Statistics on Permutation Groups, Canonical Words, and Pattern Avoidance
Yuval Roichman,
Prof.,
Mathematics,
Bar-Ilan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Cerebellum: The Evolution of a Neuronal Machine for Bayesian State Estimation.
Mike Paulin,
Professor,
Department of Zoology, Department of Mathematics and Centre for Neuroscience,
University of Otago, New Zealand.,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Fundamental Reaction Steps Probed by Organometallic Photochemistry
Robin N. Perutz,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of York,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Engineering Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Many-Body Physics in Semiconductor Nanostructures
David Goldhaber-Gordon,
Assistant Professor of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
8:00am
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8:00am
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9:00am
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Thesis Seminar
A New Strategy for Synthesizing Zeolites and Zeolite-Like Materials
Hyunjoo Lee,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The M-Theory/Type II Partition Functions and Generalized Cohomology
Hisham Sati,
Univ of Adelaide,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Direct Examination of Initiation and Propagation Kinetics of Zirconocene-Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization
Sara B. Klamo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Partially Reduced Heteropolyanions for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane
Jonathan Galownia,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Selectivity in the C-H Activation of Methane and Methanol
Jonathan S. Owen,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Networks of Relations
Matthew Cook,
Graduate Student in Computation and Neural Systems,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Biology Division Seminar
Bdelloid Rotifers: Habitat and Genome Structure
Matthew Meselson,
Professor,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Enantioselective Olefin Metathesis
Jacob Berlin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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