Institute Calendar
January 2010
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthetic Applications of Silicon Lewis Acids: Total Synthesis of MS-153 and Manzacidin C
Kristy Tran,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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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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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1985 to Present)
John Trauger,
principal investigator and project scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
9:30am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 24th, 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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3:30pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Lords of the Ring: Mechanism of the Dynein and Spastin AAA ATPases
Ron Vale,
professor of cellular and molecular biology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Observation of Half-Fluid States in Mesoscopic Sr2RuO4 Rings
Raffi Budakian,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Impact of Gas Accretion on the Scaling Relations
Nicolas Bouche,
postdoctoral felllow,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Technology for High-Resolution Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
Larry Wald,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
From Hot Jupiters to Super-Earths: A Survey of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Heather Knutson,
research fellow in astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"The Efficient Photoelectrochemical Conversion of Aqueous CO2 to Methanol: Making a One Electron Redox Catalyst do the Work of Six
Andrew Bocarsly,
professor of chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions from Non-uniform Fourier Data
4:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Probing and Controlling the Nuclear Spin Bath of Electron Spin Qubits
Hendrik Bluhm,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Facilities for Accelerator Science and Experimental Test Beams at SLAC
Mark Hogan,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Cosmic Galois Groups
Ozgur Ceyhan,
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics,
University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Fossil Fuel Supplies, Climate, and Climategate
David Rutledge,
Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Stochastic Methods for Bose Gas Dynamics
Crispin Gardiner,
professor of physics,
University of Otago,
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
Constraining the Formation and Growth of Massive Black Holes
Marta Volonteri,
assistant professor of astronomy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
The Fountain and the City: Reconciling the Natural and the Manmade in Urbanizing America
Carl Smith,
R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow,
Huntington Library,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Multifunctional, Hierarchical NanoArchitectures by Directed Self-Assembly: From Biomimetics to Ultra-Strong Nanocomposites
Paul Podsiadlo,
Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Human Visual Pathways: Maps, Plasticity and Reading
Brian Wandell,
professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Single Photon Detectors—from A to B (from Astronomy to Biology, and Beyond)
Daniel Prober,
professor of applied physics and physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Interior Structure, Evolution and Mountains of Titan
Giuseppe Mitri,
senior postdoctoral scholar in planetary science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Solar Decathlon: Commercially Available Sustainable Building Technologies
John Onderdonk,
manager for sustainability programs,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Reflection Positivity and the Sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Inequality
Rupert L. Frank,
instructor in mathematics,
Princeton University,
3:30pm
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4:40pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nanoelectronics—Emerging Trends in Device Technology
H.-S. Philip Wong,
professor of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Status of Kepler Mission and Early Discoveries
Natalie Batalha,
professor of physics and astronomy,
San Jose State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why Is Monsoon Onset Rapid?
Simona Bordoni,
assistant professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
NanoMaterials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Linda F. Nazar,
professor of chemistry,
University of Waterloo, Canada,
4:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Solar Decathlon: Photovoltaic Technology
Harry Atwater,
Howard Hughes Professor and professor of applied physics and materials science,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
8:00am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Drinking Water Management in Korea
Dae Jung Kwon,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Catalytic and Evolutionary Traits of Metallo-beta-lactamases: Does It Take Two to Tango?
Alejandro Vila,
associate professor of biophysics,
University of Rosario, Agentina,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Solar Decathlon: Batteries and Other Energy Storage Options as Applied to the Solar Decathlon Competition
Nate Lewis,
Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Liberals and Conservatives are Physiologically Different
John Hibbing,
professor of political science,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Enhancing Our Antibiotic Arsenal Using Systems Biology
Mark Brynildsen,
research associate in biomedical engineering,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mapping and Measuring Proteomes
Ruedi Aebersold,
Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
New Perspectives on Subduction Zone Fluids
Craig Manning,
professor of geology and geochemistry,
UCLA,