Institute Calendar
October 2008
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
California Ballot Initiatives, 1A, 2, 7, and 10
Nathan Dalleska,
lab administrator,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Equilibrium Growth When Preferences Are Time Inconsistent
Ali Lazrak,
assistant professor of finance,
the University of British Columbia,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structural Basis for Activation and Inactivation Gating in K+ Channels
Eduardo Perozo,
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structural Basis for Activation and Inactivation Gating in K+ Channels
Eduardo Perozo,
professor of biochemistry and molecular biology,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
The Neural Integration of Reward and Punishment
Daniel Salzman,
assistant professor of neuroscience,
Columbia University Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Rheology and Viscoelasticity of Dense Colloidal Dispersions
Matthias Fuchs,
professor of physics,
Universitat Konstanz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake-Induced Brace Fracture in Concentrically Braced Frames
Amit Kanvinde,
assistant professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Grain Boundary Diffusion: Metal and Carbon Fluxes through the Mantle?
Leslie Hayden,
postdoctoral scholar in Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Inflation, String Theory, and Signatures in the CMB
Eva Silverstein,
professor of theoretical physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
7:00am
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10:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Eva Silverstein,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Physical Limnology: A Review
Jorg Imberger,
professor of environmental engineering,
University of Western Australia,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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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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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Correlating Blogs and Business Events
Michael Olson,
graduate student in computer science,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
External Fields and the Dynamics of Flavours in Holographic Duals of Large N Gauge Theories
Arnab Kundu,
graduate student in theoretical high energy physics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Transient Growth in Boundary Layers: Theory, Experiment, and Implications for Transition
Edward White,
associate professor of aerospace engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization Using Palladium Complexes and Molecular Oxygen
Nilay Hazari,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fernandez/Kanner Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:59pm
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ghazarians/Andriassian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Artoonabedi Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shahverdian/Iskenian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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11:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Crans/Yoon Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:15pm
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7:15pm
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special ESE & Society Discussion Group
Rocky Mountain Institute: Abundance by Design
Amory B. Lovins,
cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist,
Rocky Mountain Institute,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Models of Onteractions of Ca(2+), CaM, and Monomeric Catalytic Subunits of CaMKII: A Piece of the Post-Synaptic Signaling Network Puzzle
Shirley Pepke,
computational scientist,
Center for Advanced Computing Research,
Caltech,
11:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Biological Interactions in Space and Time
Jacob Israelachvili,
professor of chemical engineering and materials,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evidence for the Presence of Water in the Moon's Interior
Alberto Saal,
assistant professor of geological sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Identifying Top Jets at the LHC
Keith Rehermann,
graduate student in physics,
the Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Local Thinking
Andrei Shleifer,
professor of economics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
8:00am
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8:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae for the Production of Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloids
Kristy Hawkins,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
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
Elucidating the SN-GRB Connection from the SN Perspective
Maryam Modjaz,
postdoctoral fellow on astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Single molecule probing of dynamic conformation, molecular interactions and dynamic localizations in-vitro
Shimon Weiss,
professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics with LIGO
Yanbei Chen,
assistant professor of physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Immunological Analysis of Amyloid Structural Diversity Using Conformation-Dependent Antibodies
Charles Glabe,
professor of molecular biology and biochemistry,
UC Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
8:00am
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Ongoing
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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
Powers of Large Random Unitary Matrices and Toeplitz Determinants
Maurice Duits,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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