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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
3:40pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Recent Changes in the Arctic Marine Environment: What Can We Learn from Geochemical Tracers of Oceanic Circulation?
Christopher Guay, President, Pacific Marine Sciences and Technology LLC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

The Extended Metal-Poor Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Linking Proteins, Particles, Wires and Dots with Ferroelectric Nanolithography
Dawn Bonnell, Professor, The University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Decoding Structure-Activity Relationships of Carbohydrates in the Brain
Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
2:30pm 5:00pm
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar

Definition and Design of Biological Circuits
Pamela Silver, Professor, System Biology, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Trees and Silicate Weathering: Interactions between Geosphere and Biosphere
Megan Andrews, Student, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar

Virtual Infrastructure for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Seth Gilbert, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture

Tailoring of Natural Products by Biosynthetic Halogenations
Christopher T. Walsh, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

Physical Methods for Modeling Biological Systems
Eric Mjolsness, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine,
Friday, March 10th, 2006
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Mediation of Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications
Peter Svrcek, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar

Julia S. Meyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Entanglement Entropy from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Tadashi Takayanagi, KITP, UCSB,
2:30pm 4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Set Systems with Restricted Intersections
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

New Ligands for Ziegler-Natta Polymerization: Probing the Anion Effect in Polymerization
Steven Baldwin, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar

The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
9:00am 12:00pm
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12:00pm 6:00pm
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: BACABAC/AKIRA PARTY

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
12:30pm 3:30pm
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2:00pm 4:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture

The Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene
Dr. Walter Goldschmidt, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and Psychiatry, UCLA,
Monday, March 13th, 2006
1:00pm 4:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Sam Waldman, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Molecular Understanding of Heterogeneous Catalysts
Christophe Coperet, Research Associate, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory of Surface, UMR 9986 CNRS-CPE Lyon,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium

Packaging of DNA by Single Bacteriophage Particles Using Optical Tweezers
Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics and Chemistry, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
9:30am 10:30am
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium

Mechanical and Catalyzed Unfolding of RNA Molecules One at a Time
Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Topic to be announced
Yosuke Imamura, Tokyo University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings: Quantitative Analysis and Constraints
Xavier Siemens, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Signaling between Synapses and Nucleus During Neuronal Plasticity
Kelsey Martin, Dr., Departments of Psychiatry & Biological Chemistry, Neuropsych. Institute, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Search for Exotics in Baryonic B Decays
Tetiana Hryn'ova, Graduate Student, Physics, Stanford University,
7:30pm 9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar

Stochastic Chemical Kinetics
Dan Gillespie, Private Consultant to BNMC and UCSB,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Intramembrane Protolysis in Development and Disease
Sinisa Urban, Dr., Centre for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture

Extraordinary Thermal Emission from Sub-wavelength Metallo-Dielectric Photonic Crystals
Rana Biswas, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory,
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
8:00am 5:00pm
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7:00pm 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Wide in the Middle, Hot at the Top: The Direct Measurement of the Shapes of Stars
Dr. Gerard Van Belle, Keck Operations Scientist, Caltech, Michelson Science Center,