Institute Calendar
February 2008
Friday, February 15th, 2008
3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Adaptive Nature of Palladium Reactivity in Synthesis
Daniel Caspi,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Charge Migration along the DNA Duplex: Hole versus Electron Transport
Benjamin Elias,
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
JUNO Spacecraft to Orbit Jupiter—Science and Technology
Michael Janssen,
principal scientist,
Jet Propulsion Labatory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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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, February 17th, 2008
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
N-Terminal Modification and Codon Reassignment with Noncanonical Amino Acids in Proteins
Rebecca E. Connor,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
How to Quantum Compute Against Biased Noise
Panos Aliferis,
IBM, Watson Research Center,
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
Lensed Star-Forming Galaxies and Obscured AGN at 1 < z < 3
Jane Rigby,
Spitzer Fellow,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Klaus Pontoppidan,
postdoctoral scholar in planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High-Resolution Observations of Proto-Planetary Disks in the MM Wavelength Regime
Andrea Isella,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Zebrafish as a Genetic Model for Sleep, Insomnia, and Other Sleep Disorders
David Prober,
postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Protein Prenylation: Mechanism, Function and Form
Mark D. Distefano,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Renormalization and Quasiperiodicity in Some Low-Dimensional Dynamical Systems
Andre Avila,
Laboratoire de Probabilites et Modeles Aleatoires,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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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
Boundary Control Approach to Spectral Inverse Problems
Sergei Avdonin,
professor of mathematics,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sweet Spot Supersymmetry
Ryuchiro Kitano,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Free Electron Lasers and E-Beam Radiation Sources
Avi Gover,
professor of engineering,
physical electronics department,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Life and Death of the First Stars
Alexander Heger,
associate professor, University of Minnesota,
and associate adjunct professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, Prospects
Sir Anthony J. Leggett,
Nobel laureate and professor and chair of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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, February 21st, 2008
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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2/23
6:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Bachelor of Science in Business Program
See event detail for location
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Early Carbonate Biomineralization and Seawater Chemistry
Susannah Porter,
assistant professor of Precambrian and Cambrian paleontology,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dried to Order: Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Self- Assembled Nanoparticle Monolayers
Heinrich Jaeger,
professor of physics,
James Franck Institute and the University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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French Consulate General to Discuss Franco-American Relations
French Consulate General to Discuss Franco-American Relations
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Proteins of Novel Composition: Synthesis, Evolution, Dynamics
Tae Hyeon Yoo,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,