Institute Calendar
January 2010
Friday, January 1st, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Volcanoes to Plutons; New Methods for Interpreting High-Precision U-Pb geochronology
Blair Schoene,
assistant professor of geosciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reaction Design and Discovery: Application to the Synthesis of Complex Alkaloids
Carlos Guerrero,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Order from Quantum Loops and Nets
Paul Fendley,
professor of physics,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Molecular Genetics of Human Mitochondrial Disease
Eric Shon,
professor of genetics and development,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Formation of Jets and Equatorial Superrotation on Giant Planets
Junjun Liu,
researcher in planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Total Synthesis of Oasomycin A and Studies toward the Homogeneous b-subunit of Human Follicle-stimulating Hormone (hFSH)
Pavel Nagorny,
postdoctoral felllow,
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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
Some Recent Convergence Results on Non-Conventional Ergodic Averages
Tim Austin,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Rapid Construction of Protein Capture Agents with Chemically Designed Stability and Antibody-like Recognition Properties
Heather Agnew,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Claire Wyart,
postdoctoral scholar in molecular cell biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics (Session II)
Integrable Systems: A Modern View
Percy Deift,
professor of mathematics,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Comparison of Long Paleoseismic Records of Earthquakes on the San Jacinto and San Andreas Faults versus the North Anatolian Fault: A View into Complex Versus Simple Fault Systems
Tom Rockwell,
professor of geological sciences,
San Diego State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Order of Magnitude Biology
Rob Phillips,
professor of applied physics and bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Paradise, Hell, and Imperial Geopolitics in Oviedo's Summary of the Natural History of the Indies (1526)
Nicolas Wey-Gomez,
visiting associate professor of the history of Science,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals
Mason A. Porter,
University Lecturer,
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
Oxford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multiscale Experimental Study of Twinning Transformation in Ferroelastic and Ferroelectric Materials
Doron Shilo,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Simulated Deformations of Seattle High-Rise Buildings from a Hypothetical Giant Cascadian Earthquake
Tom Heaton,
professor of engineering seismology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt(II) Diglyoxime Complexes
Jillian Dempsey,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime: Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Christopher O'Shaughnessy,
graduate research assistant in physics,
North Carolina State University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
String Theory, Dark Matter, Cosmological History, and LHC
Gordon Kane,
professor of physics,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Algebras and Languages for Molecular Programming
Luca Cardelli,
Microsoft Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Intrinsic and Circuit Mechanisms of Computational Flexibility in the Cerebral Cortex
Andrea Hasenstaub,
Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology,
Salk Institute for Biological Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Climate and Landscapes
David Battisti,
professor of atmospheric sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Proteins as Metal Ligands—Taking a Clue from Nature
F. Akif Tezcan,
assistant professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Modulating Protein-Protein Interactions Using Natural and Designed Molecules
Alexander Statsuk,
postdoctoral scholar in cellular and molecular pharmacology,
UC San Francisco,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED
David I. Schuster,
postdoctoral associate in applied physics,
Yale University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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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, January 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Seeing the Invisible: Discovering New Ways of Nonlinear Optical Bio-imaging
Wei Min,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Research, Developments, and Plans for Advanced Virgo
Raffaele Flaminio,
European Gravitational Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Coupled Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions and Biological Energy Transduction
Alexei Stuchebrukhov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Guiding Light: In vivo Steering of Migrating Cells Using Photo-Activation of the Small GTPase Rac
Denise Montell,
professor of biological chemistry,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Opportunity and HiRISE Observations of Craters, Ripples and Rocks at Meridiani Planum: Constraints on Ripple Migration and Accumulation of Meteorites
Matthew Golombek,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Disordered-Polymer Depinning Transitions: An Overview
Kenneth S. Alexander,
professor of mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insights from a Coastal Ocean Time Series—Biogenic and Lithogenic Sedimentation
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth science,
USC,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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