Institute Calendar
November 2006
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling PAH and PCB Sources and Degradation in Aquatic Sediments Based on Factor Analysis with Nonnegative Constraints
Professor Erik Christensen,
department of civil engineering and mechanics,
University of WisconsinMilwaukee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Highly Nonlinear Phononic Crystals
Chiara Daraio,
assistant professor of aeronautics and applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Trouble in Paradise? The Tale of Solar Abundances
Sarbani Basu,
pfrofessor of astronomy and DGS,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Programmable and Configurable Analog Signal Processing towards Neuromorphic Applications
Paul Hasler,
associate professor ,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Volcanic Studies of Pyroclastic Volcanoes in the Lesser Antilles
Alan L. Smith,
professor of geological sciences,
California State University, San Bernardino,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-Like Forces at Sub-mm Distance
Aaron Kapitulnik,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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, November 10th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Joerg Teschner,
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Search for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in Sr2RuO4 and Other Novel Superconductors
Aharon Kapitulnik,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Frederik Denef,
associate professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Vortex Hemodynamics
David Auerbach,
professor of fluid dynamics,
University of Graz, Austria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Controlling Catalytic Reactivity through Metal Spin State
Vernon C. Gibson,
professor of inorganic chemistry,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
"Searching for Supersymmetry in Low-Energy Experiments"
Carlos Wagner,
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
High-Performance Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits
Zoya Popovic,
professor of electrical engineering,
University of Colorado,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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11:00am
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Linforth/Moran Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Smith/Wahbe Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Perez/Gomez Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
8:00am
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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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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Childhood-Onset Damage to Prefrontal Cortex: Emotional Dysregulation and Real-World Functioning
Steven Anderson,
associate professor of neurology,
University of Iowa,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Top Flavor Violation: From the B Factories to the LHC
Michele Papucci,
postdoc in particle physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Efficient Optimization for Robust Optimal Control with Constraints
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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
What's Entanglement Good For?
Steve Flammia,
research assistant,
University of New Mexico,
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
Connecting Galaxy Evolution, Star Formation and the X-ray Background
David Ballantyne,
department of physics,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
A Revolution in Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Holes
Mark Scheel,
senior research fellow in theoretical astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Skin Stem Cells and Their Lineages
Elaine Fuchs,
Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Methods for Computational Enzyme Design and Application to the Chorismate-Prephenate Rearrangement
Jonathan Lassila,
graduate student in biochemistry and biophysics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Spectral Theory of 1-D Continuous Schrödinger Operator with Unbounded Potential
Stanislav Molchanov,
professor of mathematics,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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