Institute Calendar
October 2009
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishyan/Chan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
Living and Working on the International Space Station
Gregory Chamitoff,
astronaut,
NASA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
Mariska Kriek,
postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar - CANCELED
Roy Bar-Ziv,
senior scientist,
Department of Materials and Interfaces,
the Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Cosmogenic-Nuclide Burial Dating
Greg Balco,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Berkeley Geochronology Center,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Measuring Sparticles with the Matrix Element
Johan Alwall,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand,
environmentalist and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
8:30am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Seeking Topological Information in Knot Homologies
Yi Ni,
faculty member in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Mechanism Design
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
The Death of the Biggest Stars
Alexander Heger,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems
Marko Lončar,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
X-ray Probing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in the Attosecond Limit
Stephen R. Leone,
professor of chemistry and physics, and director, Chemical Dynamics Beamline,
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Charged Current Neutral Pion Production at MiniBooNE
Robert Nelson,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
The Cellular Uptake of Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes
Cindy Puckett,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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
Basic Hypergeometric Biorthogonal Functions as Limits
Fokko van de Bult,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor in mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint
Frank Vallentin,
postdoctoral scholar,
Delft University of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
An Experimental Test of Non-local Realism
Simon Groeblacher,
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Spatially Resolved Dynamics of z~2forming Galaxies
Reinhard Genzel,
managing director,
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Cloud Ice: Observing and Modeling the Hard Part of the Clouds
Duane Waliser,
JPL,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
RNA: Prebiotic Product or Biotic Invention
John D. Sutherland,
professor of chemistry,
University of Manchester,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:30pm
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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CMA Presents "The 10,000-Year Clock and Other Short-Term Thinking Exercises"
Alexander Rose,
Executive Director,
The Long Now Foundation,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Nucleic Acids: Solexa Sequencing and G-quadruplexes
Shankar Balasubramanian,
professor of chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop?
Thomas Levenson,
professor of science writing,
MIT,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Dedication Ceremony for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology
See event detail for location
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Aspects of Symmetric Product Orbifolds
Shlomo Razamat,
research associate in physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Alexander Westphal,
postdoctoral scholar,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Studies of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
Kathryn McMenimen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
3D-PTV Measurements in a Turbulent Flow with System Rotation
Matthias Kinzel,
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics,
Technische Universitaet of Darmstadt,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Strain-Drops and Corner Frequency Ratios Estimations from the Aftershocks of the 1999 İzmit and Düzce Earthquakes
Wenzheng Yang,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
The Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics
Sandro Caparrini,
postdoctoral fellow,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Unusual C-C Bond Forming Reactions of Platinum Biscarbenes
Rachel Klet,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
RF and Microwave Challenges for Cognitive Radio and TV White
Larry Larson,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
War, Moral Hazard, and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution
Gary W. Cox,
professor of political science,
UC San Diego,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
9:00am
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11:00am
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