Institute Calendar
May 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
8:00am
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5/7
5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Hawaii: The Endangered Species Capital of the World
Colette Salyk,
graduate student in Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
DNA Charge Transport in DNA Repair
Amie Boal,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Laboratory and Modeling Studies of Plutonium Subsurface Transport
Brian Powell,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical sciences,
Clemson University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Seeing Is Believing: Visualization of Condensed-Matter Structures
Ding-shyue (Jerry) Yang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Breaking the Cell Barrier for Custom-Designed Vaccines
Jim Swartz,
member of the Stanford Cancer Center and professor of chemical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmology with 21-cm Radio Observations
Rennan Barkana,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, and lecturer,
physics and astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
3:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Pedro Vieira,
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique École Normale Supérieure, Paris,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium: Thesis Defense
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Converging Geometries
Manuel Lombardini,
graduate student in aeronautics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Biomedical Imaging Group
Molecular Neuroimaging with MRI
Alan Jasanoff,
assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Investigations into MIx-Catalyzed Alkane Homologation and Methanol Conversion
Valerie Scott,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
P3: Parallel-Arrayed, Power-Optimal, Process-Calibrating, Interconnect Circuits for Future Multi-Core Computing
Patrick Chiang,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Oregon State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Badalian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Evazyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:45pm
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1:45pm
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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, May 4th, 2008
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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Thesis Seminar
Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity Studies: Instrument Development/Characterization, Ambient and Laboratory Measurements, and Modeling
Armin Sorooshian,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Electron Tunneling and Hopping through Proteins
Crystal Shih,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology in Pursuit of Low-Cost, Effective, Anti-Malarial Drugs
Jay Keasling,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geobiochemical Evolution of the Metallaproteome: Physiological Proxies and Biochemical Inertia
Felisa Wolfe-Simon,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the Photon Decay into Extra Dimensions
Alexander Friedland,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Joint Caltech Library System and Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Neurocommons: Open-Source Knowledge Management for Neuroscience
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Commemorating Darwin: 1809, 1859, 2009
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the history of science,
Harvard University,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
5:00am
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7:00pm
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Quinceañera Photography on Campus: Reyes Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Fundamental and Applied Studies of the Structures and Reaction Dynamics of Biomolecules Using Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry
Hugh Inkon Kim,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser
Avi Zadok,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
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
Topic to be announced.
Claudia Maraston,
senior lecturer in astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
3:30pm
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4:45pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Prospects for LIGO Detection of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei
Vanessa Lauburg,
graduate student in astronomy,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From Charcot to Lou Gehrig: Mechanisms of Neuronal Growth and Death in ALS
Don Cleveland,
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Puzzles and Discoveries in Quarkonium Physics
Bryan Fulsom,
graduate student in physics,
University of British Columbia,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
Geometries for Automorphism Groups of Free Groups
Karen Vogtmann,
professor of mathematics,
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Properties of Absolutely Continuous Spectral Measures of 1D Quasiperiodic Operators
Svetlana Jitomirskaya,
professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Oceanic N-cycle
Marcel Kuypers,
scientist,
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescopes
Gary Sanders,
project manager,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Findings in Materials Under Extreme Pressures
Rus Hemley,
director of the geophysical laboratory,
the Carnegie Institution of Washington,