Institute Calendar
May 2007
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Practical Error Correction for Quantum Key Distribution
James Harrington,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELLED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Edo Berger,
research fellow,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution in Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Jumping Species: SARS and Influenza
Stephen Morse,
associate professor of clinical epidemiology,
Mailman School of Public Health,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
CMS ECAL 2006 Test Beams Effort
Christopher Rogan,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
The Universe Beyond (Far Beyond)
W. Hugh Woodin,
professor of mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 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
Intersection of Paths and High-Dimensional Random Walk in Random
Noam Berger,
assistant 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
Hydrocarbon Giogeochemistry in a Seep Environment
Dave Valentine,
associate professor of earth science,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dynamics of Young Star Clusters
Stephen L. W. McMillan,
professor of physics,
Drexel University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of Chemical Tools to Monitor Protein Phosphorylation
Mary Kay H. Pflum,
assistant professor of biological chemistry,
Wayne State University,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
10:00am
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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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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Folding Biomimetic Oligomers: Origami or Architecture?
Kent Kirshenbaum,
assistant professor of chemistry,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Structural System Selection Using Performance-Based Design
Farzin Zareian,
assistant professor,
department of civil and environmental engineering,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Radiocarbon Based Studies of Carbon Cycling in the Deep N. Pacific Ocean
Lihini Aluwihare,
assistant professor,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Recent Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Future Directions
Lyman Page,
Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Recharging the Innovation Engine at Amgen"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Roger Perlmutter,
Executive Vice President of Research and Development,
Amgen,
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
5-D Black Holes and Strings with Higher Derivatives
Joshua Davis,
postgraduate researcher,
department of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Mechanical Quantum Resonators: A Proposal to Create and Detect Single Phonons in a Bulk Mechanical Resonator
Andrew Cleland,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Cryoelectron Tomography of Bacteria and their Macromolecular Machines In Vitro and In Situ
Gavin E. Murphy,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Measurement of Nye Dislocation Density Tensor and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density Based Upon Lattice Rotation Measurements
Jeffrey W. Kysar,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nanostructured Membrane-Based Devices for Solar Energy Conversion
Craig Wiggenhorn,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Lyvers/Covarrubias Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kim/Lai Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
9:00am
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9:01am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Understanding How Microvascular Networks Grow in the Adult: Identification of Novel Perivascular Cell Dynamics, Arterial/Venous Phenotypes, and Connections with Other Network Systems
Walter Lee Murfee,
department of bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Universal Nonperturbative Effects in Two-Jet Event Shapes
Chris Lee,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute for Nuclear Theory,
University of Washington,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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MOVED: Chuck Palahniuk: (Event Moved to Vroman's Bookstore)
See event detail for location
- Public Event
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
8:00am
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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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Geometry of Quantum Criticality
Paolo Zanardi,
associate professor of physics,
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
Quasars Probing Quasars: Shedding (Quasar) Light on High Redshift Galaxies
Joseph Hennawi,
Hubble Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Studies on Cadherins and Catenin Roles in Synapse Formation
Louis Reichardt,
director of neuroscience,
department of physiology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Preparing to Search for New Physics with the CMS ECAL
Marat Gataullin,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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