Institute Calendar
March 2008
Ongoing
Ongoing
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3/12
5:00pm
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
8:00am
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5:15pm
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8:00am
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5:15pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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6:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
2:00pm
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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, March 3rd, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
A Quest for New Reactions: Some Interesting Perspectives for Organic Synthesis
Samir Z. Zard,
professor,
laboratory of organic synthesis,
École Polytechnique,
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
When the Signal is the Noise: Stochastic Synchronization
Bard Ermentrout,
Professor of Computational Biology,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for the Physics beyond the Standard Model at the Tevatron
Beate Heinemann,
experimental particle physicist,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Approaches to Understanding Copper and Peroxide Biology in the Brain
Christopher J. Chang,
assisant professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Flood Basalts, Meteorite Impacts, and Sudden Environmental Change: What Can Isotope Geochronology Tell Us?
Simon P. Kelley,
professor of earth sciences,
Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:45pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Measurement-only Topological Quantum Computation
Parsa Bonderson,
postdoctoral scholar,
Microsoft Station Q,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Topic to be announced.
James R. Lyons,
assistant research geochemist,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Dark Matters
Jonathan Feng,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Little Bangs: Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC with the ALICE Experiment
Jennifer Klay,
instructor of physics,
Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Daniel Gamelin,
professor of chemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar: Special Kliegel Seminar
The Future of Oil and Gas Exploration and Recovery
Imran Kizilbash,
president,
reservoir characterization group,
Schlumberger Oilfield Services,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Gibbs Measures on Nonintersecting Paths
Alexei Borodin,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Fluxes, Torsion, and Heterotic Strings
Katrin Becker,
professor of physics,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanostructured Materials Design from First Principles: Where Chemistry Meets Engineering
Robin Hayes,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
New York University,
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
Siderophore-Mediated Biogeochemical Cycling of Transition Metals
Owen Duckworth,
assistant professor of soil biogeochemistry,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Structure and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters
Lori Allen,
astronomer,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—CANCELLED
Wulfram Gerstner,
professor of computational science,
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Streamlining Synthesis via C-H Oxidation
M. Christina White,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
6:15pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
Greg Critser,
journalist and author,
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
New Paradigms and Perspectives in Translational Control
Wendy Gilbert,
postdoctoral scientist,
department of molecular and cellular biology,
UC Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Diffusion in Geological Materials: Determination of Interdiffusion Coefficients in Multicomponent Systems from Experimental Diffusion Profiles
Daniel Vielzeuf,
CNRS—University of Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Carbon Nanoelectronics and Sensors
Marc Bockrath,
assistant professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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5:30pm
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Luscher Formulas and Fluctations around the Giant Magnon
Romuald Janik,
associate professor of theoretical physics,
Jagiellonian University,
12:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
What Is Wall Turbulence: How Can We Control It?
Jonathan F. Morrison,
professor of experimental fluid mechanics,
department of aeronautics,
Imperial College, London,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Associative Polymers as Anti-Misting Agents and Other Functional Materials via Thiol-Ene Coupling
R.L. Ameri David,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Unravelling the Structure of the Water Splitting Site of Photosynthesis and Implication for Mechanism of Catalysis
James Barber,
professor of biochemistry,
Imperial College, London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Exploiting Capacitance for High-Performance Computer Systems
Ron Ho,
distinguished principal engineer,
Sun Microsystems,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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3/8
5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shimoda Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Water Overtakes Energy as the Critical Crisis?: Venturing in Water Technology and Opportunity
11:00am
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5:00pm
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