Institute Calendar
May 2008
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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Astronomy Colloquium: 10th Annual Greenstein Lecture
Luminosity Functions: From Quasars to Gamma-Ray Bursts
Maarten Schmidt,
Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Sequential Event Memory Formation and Reactivation in the Hippocampus and Beyond
Matt Wilson,
professor of neurobiology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
What Do We Know about How Polymeric Semiconductors Work?
Alberto Salleo,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Novartis Lecture
Synthesis and Biological Studies with New DNA/RNA Analogs
Marvin H. Caruthers,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Grace Nicholson: Pasadena's Merchant Princess
Kathleen Peck,
independent scholar and reader,
the Huntington Library,
6:15pm
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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, May 15th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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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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Geology Club Seminar
Verifying What Everybody Knows: New Insight into Macroevolutionary Trends
Emily Greenfest-Allen,
graduate student in computational paleobiology,
Bryn Mawr College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Theories of the Explosive Death of Massive Stars
Adam Burrows,
professor of astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Breaking R-Symmetry for General Gauge Mediation
John Mason,
graduate student in physics,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The G2-MSSM, from Moduli Stabilization and a De Sitter Minimum to LHC and Dark Matter Phenomenology
Gordon Kane,
professor of physics,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminar
Astrophysical Probe of New Physics: Cosmological Dark Matter and Anisotropy
Shin'ichiro Ando,
Sherman Fairchild Fellow,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Discrete Dislocation Modeling of Plastic Flow Processes
Alan Needleman,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Diene Ligated Platinum(II): Protonation, C-H Activation and Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
George Chen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Interfacing Living Sensory Systems to Mobile Robots
Charles M. Higgins,
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Arizona,
5:45pm
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5/18
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Landing a Backhoe on Mars
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
8:00am
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8:00pm
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
12:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Stimulating Neurons with Light: Current State and Future Challenges
E. Duco Jansen,
associate professor of biomedical engineering and neurosurgery,
Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Molecular Choreography: Programming Nucleic Acid Self-Assembly and Disassembly Pathways
Niles A. Pierce,
associate professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
An Ice Age Megaflood and the 8200 BP Cold Event
Garry K. C. Clarke,
professor of geophysics, emeritus,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Little Higgs Model with T-Parity
Maxim Perelstein,
assistant professor of theoretical physics,
Cornell University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
High-Frequency Scattering by Obstacles with Conical Singularities: Asymptotics and Numerics
8:30pm
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
9:00am
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels
Graeme Smith,
postdoctoral scholar,
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Non-Linear and Non-Local Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisims
Eric Lauga,
assistant professor,
mechanical and aerospace engineering ,
UC San Diego,
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.
Charles Steidel,
DuBridge Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Calculating the Closed String Partition Function of a Calabi-Yau A-infinity Category
Kevin Costello,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Northwestern University,
3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Some Coolness Concerning (Martian) Global Warming and Reflections on the Role of Surface Dust
Mark Richardson,
associate professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Molecular Paths to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
Ming Guo,
department of neurology and pharmacology, Brain Research Institute,
UCLA School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Photon Analysis Techniques at CDF and Latest Results
Max Goncharov,
research scientist in physics,
Texas A&M University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Universality Limits for Random Matrices via Classical Complex Analysis
Doron Lubinsky,
professor of mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Osmotic Propulsion
Ubaldo Cordova-Figueroa,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,