Institute Calendar
March 2006
Monday, March 27th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:45am
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3/31
5:00pm
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8:45am
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3/31
5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergence of the Standard Model Fermions from a Background Independent Quantum Theory of Gravity
Lee Smolin,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Shaping an Organelle: A Class of Membrane Proteins Generates Tubular Endoplasmic Reticulum
Gia Voeltz,
Dr.,
Department of Cell Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fatal Attraction: Living with Earthquakes, the Growth of Villages into Megacities, and Earthquake Vulnerability in the Developing World
Professor James Jackson,
Bullard Laboratories,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Plasma: Energy Loss via AdS/CFT
Laurence Yaffe,
professor of physics,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
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
Hamiltonian Oracles
Carlos Mochon,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics
Young Huang,
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
ESCRTs for receptor down-regulation and HIV budding
Scott Emr,
Dr.,
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, HHMI,
UC San Diego School of Medicine,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Trades Winds: A Cloud Perspective
Bjorn Stevens,
associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Microfluidics Meets Modeling: Applying Engineering Principles to the Design of Integrated Microfluidic Devices
Todd Thorsen,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Large Explosive Volcanic Eruptions: Completeness of the Holocene Record and Application of Extreme Value Statistics
Natalia Deligne,
geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Neutrino Physics: Recent Results and Prospects
Joshua Klein,
assistant professor of physics,
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Research Group, high energy physics lab,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Sick and Tired: The Impact of Medical and Psychological Factors on Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Rose McDermott,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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CMA and Caltech Flying Club Present "The Remarkable Live of Neil Armstrong"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
James Hansen,
author,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The World Bank and the Environment
Richard Wildman,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Observables in Effective Gravity
Steven Giddings,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
New Insights into Matrix Metalloproteinases Mechanisms Using Novel Structural-Dynamic Approach: Application to Drug Design
Irit Sagi,
associate professor of structural biology,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Electric Dipole Moments and Particle Physics: Accessing TeV-scales at Low Energies
Maxim Pospelov,
associate professor of physics,
University of Victoria, British Columbia,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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