Institute Calendar
January 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gyoxal as a New Tracer of Photochemical Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
Frank N. Keutsch,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin—Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Plants, and Beaches
Ed Turner,
professor of astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Abstraction Methods for Liveness
Amir Pnueli,
professor of computer science,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
"Small Molecule Control of Bacterial Biofilms"
Christian Melander,
assistant professor of bio-organic chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Voice and Text in Medieval Lyric
Seth Lerer,
professor of English,
Stanford University,
6:15pm
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7:30pm
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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, January 24th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Goods Movement and Air Pollution: How Many People Died for your Nikes?
David Pettit,
senior attorney and director,
Southern California Air Quality Project,
Natural Resources Defense Council,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
In Promptu Ponere: Removing Noise in Cryoimaging
Alexandre Cunha,
computational scientist,
Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Symbiotic Nbitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Reveals the Last Missing Step in Vitamin B12 Biosynthesis
Michiko Taga,
postdoctoral associate in biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Evolution of the Colorado River: Culmination of a Major Cenozoic Transformation of Southwest North American Drainage Patterns
Marty Grove,
ion microprobe facility manager,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. Coli
Ned Wingreen,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
8:00am
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9:00am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale
Metin Sitti,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Two Open Computational Problems in Biology
C. Titus Brown,
assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, Michigan State University,
and postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flight Testing of Helium Superpressure Balloons for Mars Exploration
Jeffery L. Hall,
senior engineer in mobility and robotics systems,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unparticle Physics
Howard Georgi,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
The Genesis of the 1000-foot Arecibo Dish
Marshall Cohen,
professor of astronomy, emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Development and Applications of Chiral Olefins as Steering Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis
Christian Defieber,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Interesting Results from MiniBooNe and MiniBooNE-NUMI
Gerry Garvey,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Combining Circuits + Architecture to Combat Variability in Nanoscale CMOS
Gu-Yeon Wei,
associate professor of electrical engineering,
Harvard University ,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: Explorer 1: Beginnings of the Space Age
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Explorer 1: Beginnings of the Space Age
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
8:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:15pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
2:30am
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7:30am
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Object Motion Sensitivity and Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry
Stephen Baccus,
assistant professor of neurobiology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planetary Science with a Handful of Atoms
Burkhard Militzer,
assistant professor in earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Pseudo-Chern-Simons Terms in the Standard Model, with Applications
Jeff Harvey,
professor of physics,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Semiconductor Nanowires: Building Blocks for Future Digital Computation and More
Jie Xiang,
KNI Prize Postdoctural Fellow,
applied physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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