Institute Calendar
October 2006
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Tale of Two Sludges: Metagenomic Analysis of Two Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) Sludge Communities
Phil Hugenholtz,
head,
Microbial Ecology Program DOE Joint Genome Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Results from the Stardust Mission
Donald Brownlee,
professor of astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploring the Origin of Biological Homochirality: How Catalysis May Have Played a Role
Donna G. Blackmond,
Professor,
Department of Chemisty,
Imperial College,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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National Coming-Out Week Keynote Event
Marriage Discrimination and Moral Values: Seeking Equality for Same-Sex Couples in the Courts, Politics, and Beyond
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Highly Siderophile Element Solubility in Silicate Melts
Don Dingwell,
professor of earth and environmental science,
University of Munich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electric-Magnetic Duality in Gauge Theory: Overview and Recent Developments
Anton Kapustin,
associate professor of theoretical physics,
Caltech,
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
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Looking for Life in All the Strange Places, with All the Right Tools
Tim Krabach,
manager,
Life Detection Science and Technology Program,
JPL,
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton and Cell Migration
Juan Lasheras,
professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Novel π-Acid-Base Chemistry of Molybdenum
Michael Malarek,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Parity-Violating Electron Scattering and Strangeness in the Nucleon: Results from HAPPEX-II
Lisa Kaufman,
department of physics,
University of Massachusetts,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
The CloudSat Experimental Satellite 94 GHz High-Efficiency Radar Antenna
Aluizio Prata Jr.,
associate professor of electrical engineering and electrophysics,
University of Southern California,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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10/15
8:00pm
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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)
Looking for Life in All the Strange Places, with All the Right Tools
Tim Krabach,
manager,
Life Detection Science and Technology Program,
JPL ,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
9:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fox/MacMillan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:45pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Go Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lakon/Hipp Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
9:00am
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ly Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Alvarado/Lainez Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chu/Pena Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 16th, 2006
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Gardar Alkaline Province, South Greenland
Brian G.J. Upton,
professor emeritus of petrology,
School of GeoSciences,
University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Massive Jets in Effective Field Theory
Sonny Mantry,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Discrete Network Approximation for Highly Packed Particle-Filled Composites
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
7:00am
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10:00pm
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10:00am
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10/19
3:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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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
Optimal Quantum Measurements
Rolando Somma,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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
Clumpy Disk Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
Bruce Elmegreen,
research scientist,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Ultracompact Binaries: Orbital Periods Shorter than This Talk
Lars Bildsten,
permanent member,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Dual Role for the GTPase Dynamin in Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
Sandra Schmid,
professor and chair,
department of cell biology,
Scripps Research Institute,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Strong Szegö Theorem for Jacobi Matrices
Eric Ryckman,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Opening Mirror Symmetry on the Quintic
Johannes Walcher,
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Kissing Butterflies and Chips Bag: Unraveling the Chemistry of Phenazine Biosynthesis
Dr. Wulf Blankenfeldt,
physical biochemistry department,
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Selfconsistent Lensing and Stellar Dynamics: Probing Galaxies to z=1
Leon Koopmans,
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, the Netherlands,