Institute Calendar
November 2007
Friday, November 9th, 2007
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Exploring Holographic Approaches to QCD
Umut Gursoy,
École Polytechnique,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Velocity and Density-Field Measurements of Shock-Driven Instabilities and Turbulence
Kathy Prestridge,
researcher in physics,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electron Tunneling and Hopping in Azurin
Crystal Shih,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Pushing CMOS to the Limits
Ali M. Niknejad,
associate professor,
electrical engineering and computer sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Specter of the Telescope: Radical Instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke
Ofer Gal,
lecturer in the history and philosophy of science,
University of Sydney,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
9:15am
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2:45pm
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ibarra/Araujo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arsineh Davidian
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Paula Dallas & John Berry
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Ng Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Babayan/Megrabyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cindy Miller & Jaime Marian
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Breathtaking Inanity of Flood Geology: Geology, Creationism, and Evolution
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
9:00am
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9:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Making Use of Dynamic Instability at the Microtubule-Kinetochore Interface
Eva Nogales,
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Getting Lucky at Palomar: 2x HST Resolution in the Visible
Nicholas Law,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Engineering Shape of Polymeric Micro and Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
Samir Mitragotri,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Real-Time Adaptive Signal Processing
Yoav Freund,
professor of computer science,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Sulfur Isotope Geobiology: A Fresh Look at Sulfate Reduction and the Proterozoic Biosphere
David T. Johnston,
postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Smoking Guns for Light Resonances at the LHC
Ira Rothstein,
assistant professor of physics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
Metal Ions in Systems Biology
Ivano Bertini,
professor,
Magnetic Resonance Center and department of chemistry,
University of Florence,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
11:00am
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2:00pm
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CMA Presents "A VIP Tour of the Scientific Laboratories at the Getty Conservation Institute"
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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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Phase Transition to Topological Order and Topological Entropy
Alioscia Hamma,
postdoctoral scholar in quantum information and quantum theory,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Silicone Carbide Hybrid Optical Sensor for Next Generation Greener Gas Turbines
Nabeel Riza,
professor of optics and electrical engineering,
University of Central Florida,
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 First Stars in the Universe: Birth, Death and Rebirth
Greg Bryan,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Integrated Computational Biology: From the Molecule to the Cell
J. Andrew McCammon,
professor of theoretical chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Evolution of Segmentation and Body Patterning
Nipam Patel,
professor of genetics and development and of integrative biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
8:00am
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4:00pm
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9:30am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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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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3:00pm
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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
Chemistry and Phase Partitioning in Atmospheric Organic Aerosols: A Dynamic Interaction
Neil M. Donahue,
associate professor of chemical engineering and chemistry,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center
Warren Brown,
associate of the Harvard College Observatory,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Cascade Reactions in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis
Mohammad Movassaghi,
assistant professor of chemistry,
MIT,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Noise Effect on Humans and Animals
Man Nin Chan,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Bachelor of Science in Business Program
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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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5:00pm
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Biology Lecture
Antibody Targeting—Nature's and Art's Gift
Andrew Raubitschek,
chair,
cancer immunotherapeutics and tumor immunology,
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Opportunity Costs and Response Rates: How Dopamine Helps Us Choose How Hard to Work
Yael Niv,
senior research assistant,
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microrheology of Responsive Hydrogel Networks
Eric M. Furst,
associate professor of chemical engineering,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Chlorine Isotope Geochemistry. Application to the Earth's Geodynamics: New Advances, Controversies and Future Directions
Magali Bonifacie,
postdoctoral scholar in geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Condensed Matter Physics with Cold Atomic Gases
Leo Radzihovsky,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,