Institute Calendar
December 2008
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12/5
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
9:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Electrical Detection of DNA Binding Proteins
Alon Gorodetsky,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
New Strategies and Technologies for Gene and Cell Therapy
Richard C. Mulligan,
professor of genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
New, Fast and Effective Algorithms for Imaging, Compressed Sensing and Related Problems, with Applications
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Detection of z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields
Jeff Cooke,
postdoctoral fellow in cosmology,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Great Mass Extinction—A Sudden Event or a Slow Moving Train-Wreck?
Roger Summons,
faculty member in geology and geochemistry, Caltech, and professor of geobiology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designed Photoactive Metal Nitrosyls for Site-specific NO Delivery
Pradip Mascharak,
professor of chemistry,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Control and Flexibility
Daniela Schiller,
postdoctoral fellow in neural science and psychology,
New York University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
8:00am
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12/16
4:00pm
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Research Spotlight for Staff
Studying Human Social Behavior
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Alexei Kitaev,
professor of theoretical physics and computer science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Multiresolution Particle Methods for Flow Simulations
Michael Bergdorf,
postdoctoral scholar,
ETH Zurich,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Subaru Weak Lensing Study of Galaxy Clusters
Masahiro Takada,
Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning
Michelle L. Povinelli,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Free Energies and Mechanism of Chemical Reactions in Solution
Weitao Yang,
the Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Richard Mulligan,
professor of genetics,
Harvard University Cancer Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Towards Dense Reconstruction of Dense Neuropil
Winfried Denk,
Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics Search in Rare Tau Decays
Sanjay Swain,
research scientist in physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:30pm
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
8:30am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Number Theory
Matilde Marcolli,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate
Jennifer Lotz,
research fellow,
National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Novel Correlated Electron Phenomena in Filled Skutterudite Compounds
M. Brian Maple,
professor of physics,
Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The British Intercolonial Slave Trade in the Development of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Gregory O'Malley,
Caltech-Huntington Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in History,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Basic Problems and Plans of Environment Protect in China
Da Yang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Bayesian Decision Making with Probabilistic Population Codes
Alexandre Pouget,
associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and bioengineering,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Colloidal Alphabet Soup: Production, Manipulation, and Assembly of Custom-Shaped Colloids
Thomas Mason,
associate professor and John McTague Chair,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Visual Sensorimotor System that Drives Rapid Adaptive Camouflage and Communication in Cephalopods
Roger Hanlon,
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Earthquake Recurrence and Long-Term Segmentation Near the Boundary of the 2004 and 2005 Sunda Megathrust Ruptures
Aron Meltzner,
graduate student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic Liquid Crystals
Steve Kivelson,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills
Emery Sokatchev,
Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Michael Lilly,
Sandia National Laboratories,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Hardness of Approximation Results for Network Formation Games (Techniques from Theoretical Computer Science for Problems in Revealed Preference)
Shankar Kalyanaraman,
graduate student in engineering and applied science,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Natural Product Synthesis and New Synthetic Methods
Jon T. Njardarson,
assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Gravity in the Tropics: The Seconds Pendulum and Global Science, 1672–1726
Nicholas Dew,
assistant professor of history,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Forays Into the Total Synthesis of Zoanthenol: Intriguing Patterns of Reactivity and Selectivity
Jennifer Stockdill,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Siraki Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
8:00am
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New High-Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar
Sasha Hinkley,
graduate student in astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
What Can We Learn About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?
Jack W. Szostak,
professor of genetics,
Harvard Medical School,