Institute Calendar
June 2009
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6/5
5:00pm
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6/2
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
To Die or Not To Die, That Is the Question
Peter K. Sorger,
professor of systems biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Strongly Interacting Cold Fermi Gases—Superfluidity and Ferromagnetism
Arun Paramekanti,
professor of physics,
Univerity of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Arun Paramekanti,
professor of physics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Slip Slidin' Away: Flow and Slip of Antarctic Glaciers
Sridhar Anandakrishnan,
associate professor of geosciences,
EMS Environment Institute,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
1st Row Transition Metal Chelate Complexes: Physical Studies and Reactivity of (smif)MX (smif = {(2-py)CH}2N)
Peter T. Wolczanski,
professor of chemistry,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Polarized Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Ian Shapiro,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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
Proper Motions at the Center of Omega Centauri
Jay Anderson,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Composition and Geomorphology of Titan's Surface from Cassini VIMS
Jason Barnes,
University of Idaho,
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
8:00am
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6/5
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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
Natural Boundaries and Spectral Theory
Barry Simon,
IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Direct Detection of Exoplanets: The Gemini Planet Imager & Fomalhaut b
James Graham,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Direct In-situ Measurements of Lithium Transport Rates in a Li-ion Cell
Steve Harris,
General Motors,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Multivalent Ligands as Probes of Immune and Microbe Signaling
Laura L. Kiessling,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Friday, June 5th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Scaling of Quasibrittle Structure Strength and Lifetime Based on Atomistic Fracture Mechanics, and Analogy with High-k Dielectrics
Zdenek Bazant,
professor,
civil and environmental engineering,
Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Special Event
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
What If the Milky Way Isn't Integrable and Isn't Phase-Mixed?
David Hogg,
associate professor of physics,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Hydrophosphonation of Olefins
Christopher Daeffler,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
8:00am
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6/9
5:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Allen/Greco Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:45pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zaghikian/Diarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lavi Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kechichian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
Reverend Michael Dowd,
Monday, June 8th, 2009
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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 Tea Talk
Rapid Timing Studies of Black Hole Binaries in Optical and X-rays: Correlated and Non-linear Variability
Poshak Gandhi,
RIKEN, Japan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Carlos Brody,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The NEMS Nose: Ultrasensitive Chemical Vapor Sensors based on Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) Resonators
Ed Myers,
research engineer,
Condensed Matter Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Cassini SAR and Radiometric Observations of Titan's Surface
Alice LeGall,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
8:00am
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6/12
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Investigations into the Generality of Metalloinsertion at DNA Defects
Brian Zeglis,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Novel Approaches to Oxide Thin Film Growth and Characterization
Susanne Stemmer,
professor of materials science,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar—cancelled
Bogdan Z. Olenyuk,
professor of chemistry,
University of Arizona,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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