Institute Calendar
March 2008
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
11:00am
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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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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Campbell/Grant Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
10:00am
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
10:00am
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11:00am
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Silence and Noise in Gene Regulation by Small RNA
Erel Levine,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Recent Advances in Organic Nonlinear Optics and Photonics
Savas Tay,
postdoctoral researcher,
Optical Sciences Center,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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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
Behavioral Variation in Production and Plasticity of Adult Birdsong
Michael Brainard,
assistant professor of physiology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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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
Life Before the Rise of Oxygen: Insights from a Late Archean Carbonate Platform in South Africa
Woodward Fischer,
Agouran Postdoctoral Scholoar in Geobiology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Neutrinos from the Cold: Status and Perspectives of the IceCube Experiment
Cecile Roucelle,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
10:00am
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11:45pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies
Joshua Simon,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ab Initio Treatment of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: From Spintronics to Corrosion
Emily A. Carter,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and applied and computational mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Widespread Polymorphic Transcript Variation in Humans
Hunter Fraser,
department of molecular and cellular biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
8:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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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
Nonlinear Ground State Representations and Sharp Hardy Inequalities
Rupert Frank,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
Princeton 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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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Solar Variability and Climate Change
Ka-Kit Tung,
professor of applied mathematics and adjunct professor in atmospheric science,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Conformal Gravity Challenges String Theory
Philip Mannheim,
professor of physics and astronomy,
University of Connecticut,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Structural DNA Nanotechnology: Information Guided Self-Assembly
Hao Yan,
assistant professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
Arizona State University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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3/16
5:00pm
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10:00am
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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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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Asymmetric Aldol Reaction 'in the Presence of Water' or 'in Water'
Yujiro Hayashi,
professor of industrial chemistry,
Tokyo University of Science,
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
Mass, Kinematics, Metallicity, and Gas Flows in High Redshift Galaxies
Dawn Erb,
research fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Between the Looking Glasses: Negative Refraction and Field-Effect Modulation in Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides
Jen Dionne,
graduate student in applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Early Paleozoic Orogenic and Sedimentary History of the Himalayas
Paul Myrow,
professor of geology,
Colorado College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Molecular Engineering of Stem Cell and Gene Therapeutics
David V. Shaffer,
associate professor of chemical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Arithmetic Geometry and Topological String Theory
Albert Schwarz,
professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Evolution of Disk Galaxies in a Dark Matter dominated Universe
Eric Bell,
Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Biomechanics of the Cytoskeleton: Cell Contractility and Mechanosensitivity of Cell Adhesion
Vikram Deshpande,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Probing Charge Transfer in DNA-Protein Systems by EPR and Transient Absorption Spectroscopies
Eric Olmon,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Metamaterial Antennas
Tatsuo Itoh,
professor of electrical engineering,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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5:16pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008