Institute Calendar
February 2007
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop: "Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder"
Ken Herman,
psychologist and director of the Counseling Center,
private practice,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Coupling Polymer Viscoelasticity to Liquid Crystalline Order: Self-Assembly and Relaxation Dynamics of Block Copolymers in a Nematic Solvent
Neal Scruggs,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
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
The Iron Isotope Proxy . . . Biosignature or a Tool without a Problem?
Silke Severmann,
postdoctoral scholar,
department of earth sciences,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing
Matthew P. A. Fisher,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Causal Efficacy and the Curse of Dimensionality
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe,
visiting professor of economics, Caltech,
professor of economics,
University of Texas at Austin,
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, February 16th, 2007
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
On the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Massive Gravitons
Ofer Aharony,
associate professor of particle physics,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Anyons in a Weakly Interacting System
Marcel Franz,
associate professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
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.
Tohru Eguchi,
department of physics,
University of Tokyo,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Design of Bi-Functional Heterogeneous Catalysts
Ryan K. Zeidan,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Modeling in Synthetic Biology
Andrea Loettgers,
senior postdoctoral scholar in the Center for Biological Circuitry Design,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Protein Infrastructure and Folding Dynamics: Computational Protein Design Inspired by Experiment and Theory
Corey J. Wilson,
postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Looking for Dark Matter in the Neutrino Sector
Alexander Kusenko,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:30am
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3:00pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Buss/Oganesyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:30am
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boikian Party/Lazarian's wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Anniversary Photography on Campus: Tomayo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Sunday, February 18th, 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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Engineering Biological Simplicity
Drew Endy,
assistant professor of biological engineering,
MIT,
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
Cloning and Broadcasting in Generalized Probabilistic Theories
Matthew Leifer,
visiting postdoctoral researcher,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach
Gregory A. Voth,
professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physics Anno 2007 with the Crystal Ball in Its Fourth Incarnation
Bernard Nefkens,
professor of physics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Feedback Regulation and Noise in Gene Networks: Stability and Beneficial Diversity
Murat Acar,
graduate student in physics,
MIT,
5:15pm
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6:30pm
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New Faculty Members Panel Discussion
New Faculty Members Panel Discussion
Christina Smolke,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
Caltech,
Gil Refael,
assistant professor of theoretical physics,
Caltech,
John Dabiri,
assistant professor of aeronautics and bioengineering,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Searching for Unknown Unknowns in Atmospheric Oxidation Chemistry
William H. Brune,
professor and head of meteorology,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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