Institute Calendar
January 2008
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Ultrafast Excited-State Processes of Rhenium Carbonyl-Diimine Complexes: From Excitation to Photochemistry
Tony Vlcek,
professor of inorganic chemistry,
Queen Mary, University of London,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Active Megadetachment Beneath the Western United States
Brian P. Wernicke,
Chandler Family Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Novel NO-Releasing Heme Proteins from the Saliva of Blood-Sucking Insects
F. Ann Walker,
professor of chemistry, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
University of Arizona,
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
A Billion Butterflies and Weather on Mars: How Local Texture Can Determine Climate in a Radiative Environment
Michael Hecht,
project manager and co-investigator,
Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment (MECA),
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Diamondoids and Plasmonic Analysis of Molecular Junctions
Nicholas A. Melosh,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Localized RNAs, Localized Translation, and Developmental Asymmetry
Elizabeth Gavis,
associate professor of molocular biology,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Phase Diagram of Holographic QCD
Oren Bergman,
Institute for Advanced Study,
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
Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Minerals and Humic Substances-Consequences for Pollutant Transformation and Degradation
Andreas Kappler,
assitant professor of geomicrobiology,
Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Putting on the Brakes: The Neural Basis of Response Inhibition
Russell Poldrack,
associate professor of psychology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Natural Products, Organic Synthesis, and Molecular Medicine: A Trifecta for Developing New Anticancer Therapeutics
David A. Horne,
professor of molecular medicine,
City of Hope,
6:15pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Booming Sand Dunes: Field and Laboratory Experiments
Melany Hunt,
vice provost, and professor and executive officer in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescope
Gary Sanders,
project manager, Thirty Meter Telescope Project,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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, January 11th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Noncommutative Solitons and Integrable Systems
Masashi Hamanaka,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Nagoya University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Marx, Mao, and Mathematics
Joseph Dauben,
professor of history,
City University of New York,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
James Gerken,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
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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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Social Networks and the Entrepreneurial Reality: Fertile Platform or Investment NutWorks?
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sefyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Structural and Functional Frontiers of Awareness
David Edelman,
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
See event detail for location
Research and Technology Trends Affecting the Availability of Safe, Sustainable Water Supplies
Jim Larkin,
president,
Scientific Methods, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Insights from Molecular and In Situ Studies of the Role of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Environmental Metal Transformations
John Moreau,
National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate,
US Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Tevatron Race for the Higgs Boson
Ben Kilminster,
researcher in particle physics,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Effect of Base Lesions on Duplex DNA
Megan E. Nunez,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Mount Holyoke College,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Baryogenesis, EDMs, and the Higgs Boson
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
senior research associate in physics,
Caltech,