Institute Calendar
November 2008
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11/4
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11/1
1:00am
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Minassian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Coghlan/Wallack Party
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tatevossian Party
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2:30pm
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Non-Commercial Photography on Campus: Agazaryan Party
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shahinian Party
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7:00pm
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11/2
6:30am
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
10:00am
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6:15pm
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Superplastic Creep of Ice: Implications for the Viscous Flow of Ice Sheets and Icy Satellites
David Goldsby,
postdoctoral scholar in geological sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Scale-Factor Cutoff Measure on the Multiverse
Michael Salem,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute of Cosmology,
Tufts University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology
Hilary Godwin,
professor of environmental health sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Why the Google IPO Might Stay Exotic—An Experimental Analysis of Offering Mechanisms
Thomas Langer,
University of Meunster, Germany, and visiting associate, Caltech,
7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
9:30am
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Extreme Heat in Extremely Small Particles: Resonant Electromagnetic Heating and Peculiar Heat Conduction in Nanostructures
David Boyd,
lecturer in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
MHD in Action—from Local Spirals to DLAs
Sukanya Chakrabarti,
postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Towards High-Performance and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Networks
Alan Willner,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
mRNA brain maps
Robert Darnell,
professor of molecular biology and biochemistry,
laboratory of molecular neuro-oncology,
the Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Cosmological Chiral Condensate and the Cosmological Constant
Stephon Alexander,
assistant professor of physics,
the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Mystery of Vus from Tau Decays
Swagato Banerjee,
research associate in high energy physics,
University of Victoria; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm
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Linus Pauling Lectureship
Life on the Edge: The Nature and Origins of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Christopher M. Dobson,
professor of chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power
Kenneth Shotts,
associate professor of political economy,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Extensions of Discrete Classical Orthogonal Polynomials Beyond the Orthogonality
Roberto Costas,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical Pacific Climate during the Last Millennium
Julian Sachs,
associate professor of chemical oceanography,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Intermittency and Roughening in the Failure of Heterogeneous Brittle Materials: Some Possible Contributions from Statistical Physics
Daniel Bonamy,
division of physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces,
CEA-SACLAY,
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Water Use on Campus
Matt Berbee,
sustainability coordinator,
Caltech,
John Onderdonk,
manager,
Sustainability Programs,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Complexity and Control in Animal Development
Arthur D. Lander,
director,
Center for Complex Biological Systems,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Membrane Protein Folding: Through the Translocon Darkly
Stephen H. White,
professor of biophysics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
A 'Matchimizing' Theory of Addictive Behavior
Sebastian Seung,
professor of computational neuroscience,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Molecular Understanding, Design, and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials
Shaoyi Jiang,
professor of chemical engineering and adjunct professor of bioengineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment
Cristiano Galbiati,
assistant professor of physics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields
Michael Kiermaier,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Chirality and Kondo Physics in Graphene
Herb Fertig,
professor of physics,
Indiana University,
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Revisiting Log-Linear Learning: Asynchrony, Completeness, and a Payoff-based Implementation
Jason Marden,
postdoctoral fellow,
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar (SISL),
Caltech,
1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects
Matthias Wapler,
graduate student,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Art and Science of Large-Scale Disasters
Mohamed Gad-el-Hak,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Virginia Commonwealth University,