Institute Calendar
November 2007
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11/6
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Societal and Environmental Topics Regarding Pennsylvania's Natural Resources: Amish Farmlands and Anthracite Coal
Zachary J. Lebo,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Controlling Structure and Properties in Conjugated Polymers
Rachel Segalman,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Paleoecology and History of the East Asian Monsoons during the Late Neogene of Northern China: Evidence from Stable Isotopes in Fossil Tooth Enamel and Soil Carbonate
Ben Passey,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Quantum Hall Effect, Non-Abelian Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation
Chetan Nayak,
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Station Q and Professor of Physics, UCSB,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
8:00am
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9:00pm
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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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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Tales from a Braneworld
Luca Grisa,
graduate student in physics,
New York University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
How to Decipher Fracture Surfaces and Crackling Noise
Laurent Ponson,
postdoctoral scholar,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Phospholipid and α-Synuclein Interactions Characterized by Trytophan Fuorescence
Bert (Tsun Yin) Lai,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Switched Mode RF Systems
Yuanxun Ethan Wang,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Mind over Matter—Cognito Ergo Motio: Science and Entrepreneurship in the Interface Between the Brain and the Machine
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, November 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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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Probing the Decline of Star Formation Since z=1
Jason Melbourne,
postdoctoral scholar in physics, mathematics and astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Jets, Vortices, and Equatorial Superrotation on Jupiter
Tapio Schneider,
assistant professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physics with Cold Atoms
Asimina Arvanitaki,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Biophysical Approaches to Metalloendonuclease Structure and Function
Cynthia Dupureur,
professor of chemistry,
University of Missouri, St. Louis,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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5:15pm
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7:15pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
8:30am
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4:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Engaging Alkyl Halides and Oxocarbenium Ions in Asymmetric Catalysis
Abigail G. Doyle,
research assistant in chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Power of Quantum Systems on a Line
Sandy Irani,
professor of information and computer science,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Youssef Marzouk,
postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering,
Sandia National Laboratories,
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
Galaxy Formation Feedback and the Early Chemical Enrichment of Intergalactic Matter
Rob Simcoe,
assistant professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Playing Extreme Sports with Single Biological Molecules
Taekjip Ha,
associate professor of physics,
The University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups
Iain Couzin,
department of zoology,
University of Oxford,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
8:00am
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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
Fun and Games with the CD Kernel
Barry Simon,
International Business Machines Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Calabi-Yau Metrics and the Solutions of the Laplacian
Volker Braun,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anticipating Threats from New Chemicals and Mixtures: Linking Molecular Models to Field-Scale Forecasts
Samuel Arey,
US NSF International Research Fellow,
Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry,
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
The Optical Antenna: A Versatile Tool for Nanophotonics
Ken Crozier,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Massive Cores to Massive Stars
Mark Krumholz,
Hubble Fellow in astrophysics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Neural Crest in Face and Brain Development
Nicole le Douarin,
Institute of Embryology,
CNRS,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Women's Club Lunchtime Lecture
The State of Science Education in the U.S.: What's Working, What's Not, and Why It Matters
Pamela Aschbacher,
director of research and evaluation,
Caltech Pre-College Science Initiative,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Internal Recycling in the Tuolumne Batholith: Implications for the Size and Duration of Magma chambers
Scott Paterson,
professor of geological sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Lecture Sponsored by the Caltech Entrepreneurship Club and the Engineers for a Sustainable World
The Opportunity to Make a Difference: The Challenges and Lessons Learned from Starting and Managing a Nonprofit
Leonard Nelson,
The Least Among Us,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Noble Travails: XENON10, LUX and Other Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Rick Gaitskell,
associate professor of physics and head of the particle astrophysics group,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Andrew Chesher,
professor of economics,
University College London,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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