Institute Calendar
March 2009
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3/11
5:00pm
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Selvian-Luca Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:15pm
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7:15pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
New Perspectives on Galaxy Evolution from the COSMOS Survey
Peter Capak,
Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cyclotron Resonance in Graphene
Erik Henriksen,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Biogeochemistry of the Stable Hydrogen Isotopes
Alex Sessions,
assistant professor of geobiology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Flavor Symmetries, Quark Masses, Neutrino Masses, and Neutrino Oscillations
Harald Fritzsch,
CERN and Universitaet Muenchen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Harald Fritzsch,
professor,
CERN and Universitaet Muenchen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Carbon Dioxide Coordination, Activation, and Functionalization at Reactive Uranium Complexes
Karsten Meyer,
professor,
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
The Role of Thermochemistry in Hypersonic Shear Flows
Joanna Austin,
assistant professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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
Galactic Structure and Near Field Cosmology with Tidal Streams
Carl Grillmair,
associate research scientist,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Titan's Interior Structure
Christophe Sotin,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Astrophysical Jets and Radio Lobes: Observations and Simulations
Hui Li,
staff member,
Theoretical Astrophysics Group,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, March 4th, 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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Szego Asymptotics for Matrix-Valued Measures With Countably Many Bound States
Rostyslav Kozhan,
graduate student in mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Insights into Galaxy Formation and Cosmology from Weak Lensing
Rachel Mandelbaum,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Enzymes as Chemotherapeutic Agents
Ronald T. Raines,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gauging Cryosphere-Driven Sea Level Rise: How Stable Are the Polar Ice Sheets?
Shawn Marshall,
associate professor of geography and Canada Research Chair in Climate Change,
University of Calgary,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Dan Ariely,
professor of behavioral economics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
How Advances in Science Are Made
Douglas D. Osheroff,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Engineering Microbes to Produce Methyl Halides
Christopher Voigt,
associate professor pharmaceutical chemistry,
UC San Francisco,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
BPS Wall-Crossing in Seiberg-Witten Theory via Dimensional Reduction
Andy Neitzke,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Ofer Naaman,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Genetic Design Automation: Progress and Future Research Directions
Chris J. Myers,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Utah,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Wall-Stress-Producing Structures in an Axisymmetic Backward-Facing-Step Flow
Ahmed Naguib,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds in Nickel Complexes Supported by Chelating Bisphosphine Ligands
Vlad Iluc,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Professor to Crusader: Galileo Transformed by His Telescope
John L. Heilbron,
professor emeritus of history and vice chancellor emeritus, UC Berkeley,
honory fellow, Worcester College, Oxford,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
10:00am
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Advancing the Legacy of William James: The Radically Empirical Study of the Mind
B. Allan Wallace,
president,
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Stress Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor
Justin Rubinstein,
Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow,
U.S. Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Trianionic Pincer Ligands: Nitrile Synthesis via N-Atom Transfer, High Oxidation State Cr(IV) and Cr(V) and New Chemistry with W-W Triple Bonds
Adam S. Veige,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Florida,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Thomas Vidick,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Active Control of High-Speed and High Reynolds Number Jets for Noise Mitigation Using Plasma Actuators
Mo Samimy,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Ohio State University,
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
Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope: Resolving Galaxy Formation on sub-kpc Scales via Gravitational Lensing
Mark Swinbank,
Institute for Computational Cosmology,
University of Durham,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Looking Beyond the Cosmological Horizon
Adrienne Erickcek,
graduate student in astrophysics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Syzygies: Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits
Jay Pasachoff,
professor of astronomy,
Williams College,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Cooperative Communications and Coding
Gerhard Kramer,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor, an Allosteric Membrane Protein Involved in Signal Transduction: Recent Structural Evidence
Jean-Pierre Changeux,
professor of receptors and cognition,
Pasteur Institute,