Institute Calendar
March 2007
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Complex Dynamics and Simple Population Codes in a Retinal Target Tracking Circuit
Anthony Leonardo,
postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Unroofing History of the Colorado Plateau from (U-Th)/He Apatite Thermochronometry
Rebecca Flowers,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Researching Einstein: Star-Clusters, Eclipses, and Anti-Relativity 1918–1921
Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald,
professor of history,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Estimating Price Elasticities in Differentiated Product Demand Models with Endogenous Characteristics
Daniel Ackerberg,
associate professor of economics,
UCLA,
9:00pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Pavel Kovtun,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
11:45am
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1:00pm
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CMA Presents "Living a Vision: The Ansaris' Space Adventures"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Anousheh Ansari,
world's first privately founded female space explorer,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Dinitrogen Chemistry at Five-Coordinate Iron Centers
Neal Mankad,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Slot Antenna Arrays for CMB Polarization Detection
Goutam Chattopadhyay,
senior member of the research staff,
JPL,
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, March 3rd, 2007
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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9:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Jones/Peterson Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
3:30pm
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Spike-Based Silicon Cochlea
Shih-Chii Liu,
Institute of Neuroinformatics,
University of Zurich/ETH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Causality in Effective Field Theories
Alejandro Jenkins,
research associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Information Markets and Moral Hazard and Equilibrium Selection
Anthony Kwasnica,
assistant professor of business economics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Information Markets, Moral Hazard, and Equilibrium Selection
Anthony Kwasnica,
assistant professor of business economics ,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Approximation for rationally connected varieties over function fields of curves
Brendan Hassett,
professor of mathematics,
Rice University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Decoherence in Josephson Qubits: Noise Phenomenological Model and Its Microscopic Origin
Lara Faoro,
postdoctoral fellow,
department of physics and astronomy,
Rutgers 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
Unveiling Distant Star-Forming Galaxies through Absorption-Line Observations
Hsiao-Wen Cheng,
assistant professor,
department of astronomy and astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gaussianity of LISA's Confusion Background from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Etienne Racine,
postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Global and Local Views of Embryogenesis in Nematodes
Fabio Piano,
assistant professor of biology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
ILC Tracker
Timothy K. Nelson,
research scientist,
Linear Collider Detector,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Gersgorin and His Circles
Richard Varga,
professor of mathematical sciences,
Kent State University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
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
Phase Transitions in Quantum-Spin Systems at Positive Temperatures
Marek Biskup,
associate professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Behavior of Mercury in Practical Combustion Systems: Model Development and Industrial Application
Constance L. Senior,
manager of engineering research and development,
Reaction Engineering International,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering?
David H. Weinberg,
professor of astronomy,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Controlling Cells and Circuits in the Mouse Brain
Boris Zemelman,
associate research scientist,
Laboratory of Neural Systems, Department of Cell Biology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Nie Shuming,
professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, hematology, and oncology,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar—CANCELLED
Karl A. Scheidt,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Synthetic Biology: From Bacteria to Stem Cells
Ron Weiss,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Lighting the Way in Biomedicine
Changhuei Yang,
assistant professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Modeling Transcriptional Regulation
Matteo Pellegrini,
assistant professor of molecular cell and developmental biology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Semi-optimal Models of Learned Decision Making
Nathaniel Daw,
assistant professor of neural science and psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Why and How Bugs Cause Formation of Mineral Concretions
Max Coleman,
Center for Life Detection,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Jasons
Ann Finkbeiner,
visiting associate professor,
Johns Hopkins University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:30pm
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