Institute Calendar
January 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
7:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Hydrophilic Polymers in Gels and Solutions: Surface Properties and Structure
Michael Mackel,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microfluidic Darwinian Evolution
Brian Paegel,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Scripps Research Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulated Annealing
Sergio Boixo,
graduate student in physics,
University of New Mexico,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Swimming C. Elegans in Various Fluidic Environment
Sunghwan (Sunny) Jung,
instructor in applied mathematics,
MIT,
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 Cosmic History of AGN
Amy Barger,
associate professor of astronomy,
The University of Wisconsin,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Transits of Exoplanets
Josh Winn,
assistant professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
A Plausible Origin of Life Through Metabolism
D. Eric Smith,
professor,
Santa Fe Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mosaic of Heterogeneous Stem Cells in the Adult Brain
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla,
professor of neurological surgery,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of a New Bottom-Strange Xi(b) Baryon at CDF
Dmitry Litvintsev,
research scientist in particle physics,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
7:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Quantum Ising Model via Stochastic Geometry
Geoffrey Grimmett,
professor of pure mathematics and mathematical statistics,
Cambridge University,
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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4:30pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Benjamin Van Mooy,
assistant scientist,
marine chemistry and geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Terahertz Detection of Many-Body Signatures in Semiconductor Heterostructures
Professor Sangam Chatterjee,
professor of physics,
Philipps-Universität Marburg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies
James S. Bullock,
assistant professor of physics,
department of astronomy,
UC Irvine,
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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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Markets and Environmental Regulation
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor,
Econimics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Designing ion-containing polymers for facile ion transport
Ralph H. Colby,
professor of materials science,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Regulation of Mitochondria by Sirtuins
Marcia Haigis,
assistant professor of pathology,
Harvard School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Central Altiplano Paleoclimate during the Last Deglaciation Constrained by Cosmogenic 3He Dating, Numerical Modeling and 'Clumped-Isotope' Paleothermometry
Pierre-Henri Blard,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Entanglement Renormalization, Quantum Criticality, and Topological Order
Guifre Vidal,
ARC Federation Fellow and Professor in the School of Physical Sciences,
University of Queensland, Australia,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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