Institute Calendar
November 2005
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium - DATE CHANGED FROM NOV. 8
Single-Electron-Transport Through Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Jörg P. Kotthaus,
Director,
Center for NanoScience,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Virtual Observatory for Coastal Ocean Science and Applications
Yi Chao,
Principal Scientist,
Earth Science Section, Sciences Division,
Jet Propultion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Claytronics: Scaling Ensembles to Millions of Millimeter Cobots
Seth Copen Goldstein,
Professor,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kroc Lecture
Vesicular Traffic: Mechanism and Disease Implications
Randy Schekman,
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploring Asymmetric Synthesis Using Lewis Base Catalysis
Scott E. Schaus,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Boston University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Luck, ESP, and Magic: How Science Tests the Unusual
Dr. Richard Wiseman,
head of the psychology lab,
University of Hertfordshire,
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Molecular Electronics and Biochemical Sensing
Peter Grutter,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
McGill University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Engineers for a Sustainable World @ Caltech
Engineering Change, Changing Engineering
Amy Smith,
Ms.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering Microbial Metabolism: Fuels and Chemicals from Lignocellulose
Lonnie O. Ingram,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, and Director, Florida Center for Renewable Fuels (FCRC),
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Deposition, Resuspension, and Alteration of Colorado River Delta Sediments, Lake Powell, Utah
Natasha Kramer,
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Understanding the Strong Interactions with Effective Theories
Iain Stewart,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Organizing Middle-Size Firms in the United States and France 1830-2000
Jean Laurent Rosenthal,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:45pm
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10:45pm
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
9:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quiver Quantum Mechanics for the Quintic
Andrew Strominger,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Nanotube in a Periodic Potential: A Conveyer Belt for Electrons
Dima Novikov,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Andrew R. Metcalf,
Grad. Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black Hole Degeneracies, Topological Strings, and Automorphic Forms
Boris Pioline,
LPTHE,
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Phenomenology of Flavor Violation in RS Models
Andrew Blechman,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Positron Emission Tomography (PET): From Technology Invention to Biology and Medicine
Michael Phelps,
Professor,
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology ,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Quantum Chemical Elucidations of Homogeneous Pd(II) Catalysis: New Insights in the Wacker Process and the Enantioselective Tsuji-Allylation Mechanisms
John Keith,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Nonstationary Nonlinearity: An Outlook for New Opportunities
Joon Park,
Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:30pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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1:00pm
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8:00pm
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: REILLY/LEVENICK PARTY
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Recent insights into the Anthropogenic Perturbation of the Global Carbon Cycle
Nicolas Gruber,
Associate Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
SUSY Breaking: Minimal Deflected Anomaly Mediation
Linda Carpenter,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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
Quantum Information's First Family, Revisited
Patrick Hayden,
Professor,
McGill University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Grain-Scale Processes Associated with Shear Band Growth and Evolution in Sands
Amy Rechenmacher,
Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Nanoparticle Optical Properties and Biomolecule Detection: New Challenges
George C. Schatz,
Morrison Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Can We Detect the Inflationary Gravity Wave Background via the CMB?
Andrew E. Lange,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Backarc Basins, Mid-Ocean Ridges and Hotspots: Thermophiles Thriving in Dynamic Environmental Gradients
Anna-Louise Reysenbach,
Microbial Ecologist,
Department of Biology,
Portland State University,