Institute Calendar
May 2009
Friday, May 15th, 2009
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Kepler: A NASA Discovery Mission
James Fanson,
project manager,
Kepler mission,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Analysis and Visualization of the Cosmic Web
Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo,
Johns Hopkins University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
To be announced.
Martin Schnabl,
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Synthesis and Proton Conductivity Studies of Mesostructured Organosilicates and Bitriazole-Polymer Composites
Christopher Alabi,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Internal Tides: From the Lab to the Ocean
Thomas Peacock,
professor of mechanical engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Discovery and Optimization of Stereospecific Propylene Polymerization Catalysts Using High-Throughput Techniques
Susan Schofer,
staff scientist,
Symyx Technologies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Why Design Must Change: Rethinking Digital Design
Mark Horowitz,
professor of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:40pm
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5:40pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Kepler: A NASA Discovery Mission
James Fanson,
project manager,
Kepler mission,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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5/16
2:00am
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
8:00am
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Why People Behave Badly
Barbara Oakley,
associate professor of engineering,
Oakland University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Adrenergic Receptors: Model Systems for Investigation of GPCR Structure and Function
Heather Wiencko,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Topic to be announced.
Colette Salyk,
graduate student,
Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Non-Evanescent Physics of Evanescent Waves: Polaritonic Effects from Nanotube Transistors to NEMS
Slava V. Rotkin,
professor of physics,
Lehigh University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Adventures in Lipidomics for Biogeochemistry
Ann Pearson,
professor of earth and planetary sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spontaneous R-parity Violation In Supersymmetry
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Asymmetric Catalysis with Amino Acids and Peptides: Some Structures and Functions
Scott J. Miller,
professor of chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Religious Rise of Civilizations
Scott Atran,
University of Michigan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris ,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Matthew Elliott,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
University of Southern Indiana,
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
Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies at High Redshift
Casey Papovich,
observational astronomer and astrophysicist,
Texas A&M University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Constraining Climate Changes with Observations
Alex Hall,
associate professor,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Properties and Potential Applications of Gold Nanoparticles
Mostafa A. El-Sayed,
Regents Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and director, Laser Dynamics Lab,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope
Michael Pivovaroff,
physicist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Infinite Gap Case
Jacob S. Christiansen,
research fellow in mathematical sciences,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Massive Galaxy and Black Hole Formation Back to within 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Dominik A. Riechers,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
On Optimal Fix-free Codes
Serap Savari,
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Contribution of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones to the Rainfall Climatology of the Southwest United States
Kristen Corbosiero,
assistant professor of oceanic sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis-enabled Studies of the Amphotericin B Ion Channel
Martin D. Burke,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
From Horse Power to Horsepower: Transportation Externalities in the 19th Century City
Eric Morris,
researcher at UCLA's Institute of transportation studies,
UCLA,
11:30am
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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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Civil Engineering Seminar
Spatially Distributed Sensor Technologies for Performance Assessment and Health Monitoring of Civil Structures
Jerome Lynch,
assistant professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Life in the Ocean Crust: Exploring Microbial Diversity and Activity in Basalts
Beth Orcutt,
postdoctoral scholar,
Department of Earth Sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Nano-opto-mechanics: Utilizing Light Forces within Guided-Wave Nanostructures
Oskar Painter,
associate professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Rapid Scale Dependent CFT Thermalization from Gravity
Shiraz Minwalla,
Tata Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar & GALCIT Colloquium
The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond
Panayotis Kevrekidis,
associate professor of mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Supramolecular Assembly Using Geometrically Defined Metals and Topologically Directed Pyridyl Carboxylate
Peili Teo,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Testing the Origin of Neutrino Masses at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,