Institute Calendar
December 2006
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/1
5:00pm
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
8:00am
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12/14
5:00pm
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8:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Simple Models of Glass Transitions
Daniel S. Fisher,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Student Presentations on Product Design for the Developing World
Ken Pickar,
visiting professor of mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Statistical Learning III: A Convex Approach to Semisupervised and Unsupervised Learning
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Long-Lived and Intense Luminescence from Amidophosphine Copper Complexes
Alex Miller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
The Homestake Underground Laboratory-Opportunities for Physics Research
Dr. Kevin Lesko,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
8:00am
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12/5
5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
9:00am
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12:00pm
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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
The Sound of Inflation: Phonon Correlations in a Chirped Ion
Nicolas Menicucci,
graduate student in physics,
Princeton University,
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
Megamasers and Dark Energy
Fred Lo,
director,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dynamic Emotional Perception: Neuroimaging Studies of Attention, Awareness, and Perceptual Decision Making
Luiz Pessoa,
assistant professor of psychology,
Laboratory of Cognition and Emotion,
Brown University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
8:00am
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12/8
5:00pm
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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
Sturm-Liouville Operators in the Half Axis with Local Perturbations and Shifted Potentials
Rafael del Rio Castillo,
IIMAS-UNAM,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a Cosmological Probe
Daniel Eisenstein,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Protocols for Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Michael B. Pursley,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Clemson University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 7th, 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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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:20pm
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4:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
SLE
Ilya Gruzberg,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Chicago,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
MRO: Following the Water with New Capabilities
Jim Graf,
project manager,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
JPL,
Richard Zurek,
project scientist,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
JPL,
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, December 8th, 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.
Elie Gorbatov,
department of physics,
UC San Diego,
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
Chern-Simons Wilson Loops and Bubbling Calabi-Yaus
Takuya Okuda,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Probing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium at Far-IR and Submillmeter-Wavelengths
Christopher Walker,
associate professor and associate astronomer,
University of Arizona,
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)
MRO: Following the Water with New Capabilities
Jim Graf,
project manager,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
JPL,
Richard Zurek,
project scientist,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
JPL,
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Krum Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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12/10
2:00am
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
3:30pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
How Cells Sense and Respond to Force and Geometry through Substrate Priming of Oncogenes and Periodic Contractions
Michael Sheetz,
professor of biological sciences,
Columbia University,