Institute Calendar
December 2007
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/14
4:00pm
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12/1
2:00am
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
11:00am
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Huang/Luck Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ishizu/Tsui Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 2nd, 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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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Observations of Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology
Yeng-Ting Lin,
postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Atmospheric Perspective of Carbon Dioxide Exchange across North America: Carbon Tracker
Wouter Peters,
earth systems research laboratory,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Regulation of Metal Ions, Virulence, and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Chuan He,
assisant professor of chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamics and Defect Formation in Liquid Crystalline Polymers under Shear Flow
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Snares, Traps, and Surprises: Developing the Global Positioning System"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Bradford Parkinson,
Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
An Overview of Quantum Expanders
Matthew Hastings,
member of the technical staff,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
On the Origin of Bubble Noise
Grant Deane,
research oceanographer,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
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 Stellar Planet Survey (STEPS): An Ongoing Astrometric Search for Extrasolar Giant Planets around Nearby M-dwarfs
Stuart Shaklan,
astronomer,
JPL,
Steve Pravdo,
astronomer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Black Hole Binary Mergers and Black Hole Spectroscopy
Dr. Emanuele Berti,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—CANCELLED
David Tank,
professor of molecular biology and physics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
mRNA Display Selection Using a Combinatorial 10FnIII Protein Library for Detection and Modulation of Cellular Processes
C. Anders Olson,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
10:30am
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11:45am
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Special Seminar in Computer Science
Equilibrium Purchasing Behavior When Operational Outcomes Impact Consumer Utility
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Local Coordinates via Heat Kernels or Eigenfunctions
Raanan Schul,
assistant professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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7:30pm
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Seismological Lab & Media Center Tour: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event
See event detail for location
- Public Event
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Apparent North-South Symmetry of Climate Variatility at Orbital Time-Scales
Peter John Huybers,
assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Ultra-Compact Integrated Wavelength Demultiplexers and Spectrometers Using Photonic Crystal Structures
Ali Adibi,
associate professor of optics and photonics,
Georgia Tech University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Protoplanetary Disks: Analogs of the Early Solar System
David Wilner,
astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
and lecturer in astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
8:30am
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4:00pm
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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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Biomedical Imaging Group
Can Random Diffusion Be Used to Predict the Future?
Brian Ross,
professor of radiology and professor of biological chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Exploring Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways for Novel Enzymes and Useful Biocatalysts
Yi Tang,
assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Origin and Formation of Diamonds in the Upper Mantle: Insights from Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Pierre Cartigny,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Scalable Quantum Networks with Atoms and Photons
H. Jeff Kimble,
William L. Valentine Professor and professor of physics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:00pm
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12/7
8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
"CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays"
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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11:45am
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology
See event detail for location
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Symmetries in String Theory
Michael Dine,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:30pm
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6:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Verifying Multimode Entanglement
Pavel Lougovski,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
University of Oregon,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Simulations on the Dynamics of Metal and Metal Oxide Surface Catalysis Using the ReaxFF Reactive Force Field
Adri van Duin,
senior research fellow in materials science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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)
"CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays"
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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