Institute Calendar
November 2007
Friday, November 16th, 2007
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Hidden Ocean of Europa: Beneath the Frozen Surface
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT
Niklas Beisert,
Max-Planck Institut for Physics, Potsdam,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS Spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein Consistency
Oscar Varela,
academic visitor in theoretical physics,
Imperial College London,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Astroinformatics and Petascale Mining of Large Astronomy Sky Survey Databases
Kirk Borne,
department of computational and data sciences,
George Mason University,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
On the Basics of a Pod-Based Methodology to Characterize the Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Large Structures
Ioannis Georgiou,
School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens,
3:00pm
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8:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Metal Iodide Catalyzed Conversion of Methanol to 2,2,3-Trimethylbutane (Triptane)
Nilay Hazari,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
RF Issues Associated with WiMAX in the WCS Band
Todd Sutton,
vice president of RF engineering,
advanced technology group,
NextWave Broadband,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The Hidden Ocean of Europa: Beneath the Frozen Surface
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:30pm
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11/17
5:00am
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
1:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Alcorn/Evans Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Part I. Total Synthesis of (±)-Welwitindolinone A Isonitrile. Part II. Thiourea-Catalyzed Enantioselective Addition of Silyl Ketene Acetals to 1-Chloroisochromans
Sarah E. Reisman,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Early Results from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey
Graham Smith,
postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Curved Space, Monsters and Black Hole Entropy
Stephen Hsu,
professor of physics,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Spin Mapping on the Atomic Scale
Professor Roland Wiesendanger,
Institute of Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center,
University of Hamburg,
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 20th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Topological Phases with and without External Symmetry
Alexei Kitaev,
professor of theoretical physics and computer science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Syntheses of Complex Antiproliferative Alkaloids and the Development of New CH Bond Functionalization Reactions
Seth B. Herzon,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments
Eduardo Novais,
postdoctoral research associate in physics,
Duke University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Improving the Bandwidth and Stability of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors with Suspension Point Interferometers
Yoichi Aso,
postdoctoral research scientist in physics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Chemistry, Physics, and Biological Aspects of Carbon Nanomaterials
Hongjie Dai,
Jackson-Wood Professor of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Next Generation of Neural Networks
Geoffrey Hinton,
professor of computer science,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Large-Scale Approaches to Mitochondrial Biology
Vamsi Mootha,
department of medicine,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
PFA Jet Management and Digital HCAL for the Future International Linear Collider
Lei Xia,
physicist,
Argonne National Laboratory,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
MSSM-like Models from Strings
Akin Wingerter,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
Ohio State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
8:00am
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11/23
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
4:00pm
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10:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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