Institute Calendar
November 2009
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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10:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Wu/Wong Group
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 9th, 2009
9:00am
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9:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Fuel Cell Technology
Sossina Haile,
professor of materials science and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain
Klaus Wunderlich,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation
Claude-André Faucher-Giguere,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
What Robotics and Control May Yet Learn from the Brain
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
professor of mechanical engineering and information science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Fossil Record of Plant Physiology and Development
Kevin Boyce,
assistant professor of paleontology,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Quantum Fluxoids in Superconducting Nanocircuits: Flux Qubits and Quantum Simulation
Hans Mooij,
professor of nanotechnology,
Delft University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Do Natural Resouces Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
Stephen Haber,
professor of political science,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Infinite-Randomness Quantum Critical Points Induced by Dissipation
Thomas Vojta,
associate professor of physics,
Missouri University of Science and Technology,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Determining Alphas(mZ): New Precision Results from Jets
Iain Stewart,
MIT,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Wireless Spectral Sharing Techniques and Issues
Fletcher Wicker,
the Aerospace Corporation,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optimizing the Layout and Error Properties of Quantum Circuits
John Kubiatowicz,
UC Berkeley,
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
Globular Clusters in the Outer Galactic Halo
Aaron Dotter,
research fellow in astrophysics,
University of Victoria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Memory Consolidation and Retreival in Drosophila
Scott Waddell,
associate professor of neuroscience,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Building the 'App for That . . .': Whats in the Future for New Businesses in Mobile Computing?
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
Random Dirac Operators with Time Reversal Symmetry
Christian Sadel,
visiting assistant professor of mathematics,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
MicroRNA Regulatory Mechanisms
Victor Ambros,
professor,
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program; and Program in Molecular Medicine,
University of Massachussetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
A Regularization Approach to the Many Instruments Problem
Marine Carrasco,
associate professor of economics,
University of Montreal,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Generalized Particle Flow for Maximal Stability of Nonlinear Filters
Fred Daum,
senior principal fellow,
Raytheon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Importance of Wind Power for a Clean and Renewable Future
Cristina Archer,
assistant professor,
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences,
Cal State Chico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Acellular Porcine Tissue Crosslinked with Functionalized Nanomaterials
Sheila Grant,
professor of biological engineering,
University of Missouri-Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Examining Cell Division Mechanisms Using Chemical Approaches
Tarun Kapoor,
professor of chemistry and cell biology,
the Rockefeller University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Spin Liquid with Fermi-surface: Exact Solution of Kitaev-type Model
Misha Feigelman,
Landau Intitute,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Why Do Fires Cause Debris Flows?
Michael Lamb,
assistant professor of geology,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Making Organelles the Bacterial Way: Structure and Mechanisms of Protein-Based Microcompartments
Todd Yeates,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Paleo-Earthquakes, Slip Rates, and Possible Strain Transients (or Not): Geologic Insights into the Behavior of the North Anatolian Fault
James Dolan,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Cosmology from Standard Sirens
Daniel Holz,
Richard Feynman Fellow,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
8:00am
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11/17
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Fractional Charge in Time-Inversion Invariant Systems
Roman Jackiw,
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Title: Network Science for Wireless Communication: Information Spread, Mobility, and Resilience
Edmund Yeh,
associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Stable Grid Refinement and Singular Source Discretization for Seismic Wave Simulations
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition: Towards Cooperative Studies
Steven Schneider,
professor,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Detection of the Sharp Features in the Deep Earth with Waveform Complexity
Daoyuan Sun,
assistant scientist,
Seismo Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide Assisted by Pendant Lewis Acids
Alexander J. Miller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
CMOS Integrated Biosensors: Fact or Fiction?
Arjang Hassibi,
assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows
John Kerrigan,
professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Stranger in a Strange Land: My Time on the Augustine Committee"
JPL
Jeff Greason,
President,
XCOR Aerospace,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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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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Von Karman Lecture: "Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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