Institute Calendar
January 2009
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Developing Diradical Approaches to Biological Reagents and Novel Materials: Taking Advantage of the Metal-Ligand Toolbox
Jeffrey M. Zaleski,
professor of chemistry,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Volcanology in an Accelerating World—The Past 2500 Years
Hans-Ulrich Schmincke,
professor,
Leibniz Institute for Marine Science,
University of Kiel,
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Shape Evolution of Abrading Particles
Peter Varkonyi,
assistant professor,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics ,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Sciences Seminar
Gas Disks to Gas Giants: Simulating the Birth of Planetary Systems
Edward Thommes,
University of Guelph,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
High-Resolution DNA Binding Specificity Profiles of Transcription Factors and Cis Regulatory Codes in DNA
Martha Bulyk,
associate professor of medicine and pathology, and of health sciences and technology,
Harvard and MIT,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can We Tackle Air Pollution and Climate Change Simultaneously and Expect Only Benefits?
Frank Raes,
Environmental Institute European Commission,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo
Robert Wiringa,
senior physicist,
Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoionics: Transport Control in Nanocrystalline Oxides by Heterogeneous Doping
Harry L. Tuller,
professor of ceramics and electronic materials,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Higher Order Spectral Shift Functions
Anna Skripka,
visiting assistant professor of mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
What Are the Opportunities in a Declining Economy?
Bharat Patel,
senior vice president and director sustainability,
HOK architecture firm,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
(1) Nuclear Electromagnetic Currents in Chiral EFT; (2) Parity-Violating Observables in A=3 and 4 Systems
Rocco Schiavilla,
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Using Chemistry and Genetics to Study GroEL Function
Eli Chapman,
assistant professor of molecular biology,
the Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Backscatter from a Vegetated Terrain
Motofumi Arii,
graduate student in electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Searching for Dark Matter with Bubble Chambers
Andrew Sonnenschein,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Mutual Fund Performance
Eugene F. Fama,
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance,
The University of Chicago,
Friday, January 9th, 2009
11:00am
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12:01pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chern-Simons Gauge Theories and M2 Brane CFTs
Jaemo Park,
Pohang University of Science and Technology and visiting professor in physics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exploiting New Opportunities in Materials Research by Remembering and Applying Old Lessons,
William D. Nix,
professor of materials science and engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Results on Finite Density Phase Transition and Nucleon Structure
Keh-Fei Liu,
professor of physics,
University of Kentucky,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
War Stories from the Front Line: Critical Insights on Building a Successful Venture in Challenging Times
10:30am
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2:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:15pm
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7:15pm
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
7:30am
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Peter Drummond,
professor of physics,
Swinburne University of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Holographic Geometry, Indeterminacy, and Noise
Craig Hogan,
Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Analysis of the Performance of an Electrical Current Procedure for Disrupting Fibrous Capsule Tissue Formation Around Biomaterial Implants
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Mechanogenetics of Cell Shape Change in the Drosophila Embryo
Eric Wieschaus,
Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for Rare Decays of B(s) to Two Muons at the Tevatron and Beyond: History and New Physics
Vyacheslav Krutelyov,
postdoctoral research fellow in physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
7:30am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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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
Long-Wavelength Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies
Andrew Baker,
assistant professor of astrophysics,
Rutgers University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Geologic Setting and Surface Properties of the Mars Phoenix Landing Site
Raymond Arvidson,
professor of earth and planetary sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Isotope Analysis: It is All Done with Smoke and Mirrors
Richard N. Zare,
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Imaging Single Events in Biology: Exocytosis to the Assembly of HIV
Sanford Simon,
professor of cellular biophysics,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Standard Model Higgs in the Two Photon Channel at CMS
Yousi Ma,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Dynamical System Identification: A Convex Optimization Perspective
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Eighth Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov,
professor of mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov,
professor of mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
7:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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