Institute Calendar
December 2009
Ongoing
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12/4
5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 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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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Knowledge Is Power but Ignorance is Bliss: An Introduction to Asynchronous Logic
Alain Martin,
professor of computer science,
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
Investigating the Evolution of Low Mass Galaxies
Liese van Zee,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Dynamics at Conical Intersections
Stuart C. Althorpe,
reader in theoretical chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geobiology Seminar
Getting a Sense of Direction: Integration of Multiple Cues for Self-Motion Perception
Dora Angelaki,
professor of neurobiology,
University of Washington in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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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
Gaussian Free Field, Conformal Field Theory, and Schramm-Loewner Evolution
Nam-Gyu Kang,
Olga Taussky and Joh Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Crystallization of a Racemic Mixture: Which Will It Be—An Achiral Racemic Compound Versus True or False Conglomerates of Chiral Crystals?
Robert Glaser,
professor of chemistry,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emulation of a Quantum Spin using a Superconducting Phase Qudit
Matthew Neeley,
graduate student,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Carnegie Supernova and Hubble Projects
Wendy Freedman,
the Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Asian Monsoon Anticyclone, Pollution Near the Tropopause and Transport to the Stratosphere
Bill Randel,
director,
Atmospheric Chemistry Division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Using Occam's Razor in a Bar Fight: Simple Conclusions from Complex Reactions
Matthew P. Meyer,
assistant professor,
School of Natural Sciences,
UC Merced,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Nanoscopy with Focused Light
Stefan Hell,
scientific member of the Max Planck Society and a director,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on Teaching in Chemistry
Refining Organic Chemistry Education
Haim Weizman,
professor of chemical education and bioorganic chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Regulation of Secretory and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Ramanujan Hegde, M.D.,
senior investigator,
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanoparticles in Biology: Engineering the Interface
Vincent Rotello,
professor of chemistry,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Earth's Deglacial "Rhythms": Similarities and Changes Through the Eons
Tim Raub,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Criticality: From Antiferromagnets to the Cuprate Superconductors
Subir Sachdev,
professor of physics,
Harvard University,
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: "Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface
Michael Abrams,
group supervisor,
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),
JPL,
Friday, December 4th, 2009
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Copper and Iron Complexes with Unusual Coordination Geometries Enforced by Phosphine Chelates
Neal Mankad,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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11:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Ayan Mukhopadhyay,
Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Sizing Aerosol Particles Between One and Three Nanometers
Nicholas Brunelli,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Aeronautics at Low Reynolds Number
Geoff Spedding,
professor in aerospace and mechanical engineering,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interactions between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 during Slow-wave Sleep
Ming Gu,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
High-order Accurate Solution of Acoustic-elastic Interface Problems on Adapted Meshes Using a Discontinuous Galerkin Method
Lucas Wilcox,
Research Associate,
Center for Computational Geosciences and Optimization,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies of Organolithium Reactivity by Rapid-Injection NMR and Efforts Toward an Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide
Amanda C. Jones,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
DEAP/CLEAN: Detecting Dark Matter with Liquid Argon (and Neon)
Hugh Lippincott,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Did Darwin Write the Origin of Species Backwards?
Elliott Sober,
professor of philosophy,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface
Michael Abrams,
group supervisor,
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
8:00am
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12/8
5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thokel/Rich Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Andreasyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Ms. Elaine Hung-Chang (Approved)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Ralph Engagment/Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Donald Prothero,
professor of geology and paleontology,
Occidental College,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Synthetic, Programmable Replicators
Andrew Ellington,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Development and Applications of Quantum Monte Carlo
Daniel Fisher,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
LISA Pathfinder: The Experiment, and the Road to LISA
Stefano Vitale,
professor of physics,
University of Trento, Italy,