Institute Calendar
April 2007
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Two Studies of Connections between Evolution and Physiology
Michael P. Brenner,
professor of applied mathematics and applied physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Find Your Partner or Expel Your Competitor: Exotic Pairing States in Fermionic Superfluids with Unbalanced Pairing Species
Kun Yang,
professor of physics,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A New Reality: B—> Pi Pi Annihilation in SCET
Chris Arnesen,
graduate student in physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Triazacyclohexanes as Small Macrocycles: Coordination Chemistry and Application
Randolf Kohn,
professor of chemistry,
University of Bath,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Desingularizing an Interesting Five-fold
Professor Kapil Paranjape,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Algorithms for Variational Problems Constrained by Elliptic and Evolution Equations
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Formal Tools for Model-Based Biology
Hana El-Samad,
postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry,
UC San Francisco,
2:00pm
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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
Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction
Todd Brun,
associate professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
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
The James Webb Space Telescope: How Can It Measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly?
Rogier Windhorst,
professor of physics,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quasicrystals—Some of Nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter
Ron Lifshitz,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Growth Factor Signaling Specificity in Mouse Development
Philippe Soriano,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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National Instruments Presentation on Virtual Instrumentation in Academic Research
Dr. Ravi Marawar,
academic marketing development manager,
National Instruments,
Matt Galante,
field engineer,
National Instruments,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Towards a Toolkit of Distinctly Folded Oligomers as Modulators of Biomolecular Function
Paramjit Arora,
professor of chemistry,
New York University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Extrasolar Planetary Systems at High Resolution
Michael Liu,
assistant astronomer,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Adaptable Optimization
Constantine Caramanis,
assistant professor of physics,
department of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Palladium-Dioxygen Reactivity and Aerobic Oxidation Catalysis
Shannon S. Stahl,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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Student-Faculty Conference
Jean Lou Chameau,
President,
Paul Jennings,
Provost,
Csilla Felsen,
Former ARC Chair,
Caleb Ng,
ARC Chair,
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
Design, Synthesis, and Control of Genetic and Genomic Systems
Farren Isaacs,
research fellow,
molecular technology group and Lipper Center for Computational Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Coping with the Stress of Solar Energy, a Conserved Bacterial Response to the Reactive Oxygen Species Singlet Oxygen
Timothy Donohue,
professor of bacteriology,
University of Wisconsin—Madison,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Coding of Natural Stimuli: Information at Sub-Millisecond Resolution
Ilya Nemenman,
Computational Biology Group,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Some Mathematical Adventures in Biology
Michael W. Deem,
professor of biochemical and genetic engineering, and professor of physics and astronomy,
Rice University,
Friday, April 6th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Electron Interactions in Graphene in a Strong Magnetic Field
Roderich Moessner,
Oxford University,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Bulk Nanostructed HCP Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation
Dr. Teresa Perez-Prado,
National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM), Madrid, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Base Oxidation by Charge Transport in Mitochondrial DNA
Edward Merino,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Carlos Yaguna,
postdoctoral scholar,
department of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
High-Speed Data Communications in Modern VLSI Systems
Azita Emami-Neyestanak,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Columbia University,
6:00pm
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11:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
9:30am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: VanValin/Guyer Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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4/19
12:00pm
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Novel Biosynthetic Hydrogel Biomaterials Engineered for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration
Dror Seliktar,
department of biomedical engineering,
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Generation, Concentration, and Detection
Professor Albert Polman,
Center for Nanophotonics,
FOM-Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and University of Utrecht,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
I Can Name that Smell in 50 Voxels: Spatial Coding and Perceptual Decoding of Odor Quality in Human Olfactory Cortex
Jay Gottfried,
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimers Disease Center, and departments of neurology and psychology,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Sense of Taste in Drosophila
Kristin Scott,
department of molecular and cell biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Density Perturbations in Chain Inflation
Brock Tweedie,
graduate student in particle physics,
UC Berkeley,