Institute Calendar
January 2007
Monday, January 1st, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Some Aspects of Spectral Perturbation Theory in W* Algebras
Anna Skripka,
graduate student in mathematics,
University of Missouri—Columbia,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Importance in Biofilms in Environmental Mercury Methylation and Persistence of Enteric Bacteria in Beach Sediments"
Jenny Ayla Jay,
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon
Philip Kim,
associate professor in physics,
Columbia University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
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
Multiscale Analysis and Modeling Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Composite
Liping Liu,
postdoctoral scholar,
mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Extremely Low-Noise Amplification with Cryogenic FETs and HFETs 1970-2006 (Where do we go from here?)
Marian W. Pospieszalski,
PhD,
NRAO Central Development Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
10:30am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Black Party (Zachary & Jennifer Betters)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
1:00pm
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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
Visual Search: Is It Really a Matter of Life and Death?
Professor Jeremy M. Wolfe,
Visual Attention Laboratory,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Deep Earth Mineral Physics: From the Mantle to the Core
Jennifer Jackson,
assistant professor of mineral physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Charmed Resonances and Effective Field Theory
Thomas Mehen,
assistant professor of physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Design of New Nitroxyl (HNO) Donors for Treatment of Heart Failure
Katrina M. Miranda,
assistant professor of chemistry and assistant professor, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Darwin Meets Nano
Robert H. Austin,
professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences,
department of biophysics,
Princeton University,
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Error-Correcting Codes for Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Stephen Jordan,
graduate student in physics,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Pumpkin Balloons
Sergio Pellegrino,
professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences,
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
MEMS-Actuated Microresonators and Optofluidics
Ming Wu,
professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
John Rubenstein,
professor of psychiatry,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
"Reinventing the Accelerator For the High-Energy Frontier"
James Rosenzweig,
professor of physics ,
Department of Astronomy and Physics,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
8:00am
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Criterion for Hill Operators to Be Spectral Operators of Scalar Type
Vadim Tkachenko,
professor of mathematics,
Ben Gurion University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Distinct Behavioral Responses to Ethenol Are Regulated by Alternate RhoGAP18B Isoforms
Adrian Rothenfluh,
associate specialist,
Department of Anatomy,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Selective C-H Functionalizations: Awakening the Dormant Methyl Groups
Jinquan Yu,
professor of chemistry,
Brandeis University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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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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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Value-Based Decision Making: Using Rich Behavioral Models to Explore Neural Function
Leo Sugrue,
graduate student in bioengineering,
HHMI and department of neurobiology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A New Kinematic Model of the Himalayan Orogen Based on Along-Strike Changes in Structural Geometry in the Northwest India Himalaya
Alex Webb,
department of earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
March of the Penguins: The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics
David Hitlin,
professor of physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Open-Closed String Correspondence in Background Independent String Field Theory
Ivo Sachs,
professor of theoretical physics,
LMU Munich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Dynamics of Nonlinear Coupled Nanomechanical Resonators
Ron Lifshitz,
senior lecturer in physics,
Tel Aviv University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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