Institute Calendar
February 2010
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ajemian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:30pm
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Sunday, February 14th, 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, February 15th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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, February 16th, 2010
9:00am
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5:15pm
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9:00am
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5:15pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop
Snooze Your Way to Success: How to Improve Your Sleep Habits
Tim Cunningham,
Huntington Hospital,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Security from Physical Assumptions
Stephanie Wehner,
Institute for Quantum Information,
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
Tales from Tails—Science Enabled by Large Scale Stellar Surveys
Kathryn Johnston,
associate professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Flight of the Fruit Fly: Life at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers
Itai Cohen,
professor of physics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Homogeneous Polymerization Catalysts Based on (Very) Early Transiton Metal Complexes"
Jun Okuda,
professor of inorganic chemistry,
Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Elastic Ice Shells of Synchronous Moons: Implications for Europa and Titan
Jonathan Mitchell,
professor of Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 17th, 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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2:15pm
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3:15pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
BL-1020 and Novel Drug with Promising Effects for the Treatment of 40,000,000 Schizophrenic Patients
Abraham Nudelman,
professor of chemistry,
Bar Ilan University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: 12th Annual Greenstein Lecturer
Hubble Servicing Mission 4 (12th Annual Greenstein Lecturer)
John Grunsfeld,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
David Lea,
professor of paleochimatology, paleoceanography, geochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
New Technology for Large-scale Analysis of Proteins and their Post-translational Modifications
Josh Coon,
professor of analytical chemistry,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
Chemistry on the Brain: Understanding the Nicotine Receptor
Dennis A. Dougherty,
George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
A Learning Perspective on Selfish Behavior in Games
Katrina Ligett,
postdoctoral associate in computer science,
Cornell University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Sonochemical Decomposition of Perfluorinated Surfactants: Chain Length Effects
Tammy Campbell,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Efficient Synthesis of Vasopeptidase Inhibitor, Gemopatrilat
Rajendra Deshpande,
Bristol-Myers Squibb,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Candida Antarctica Lipases A and B in Dynamic Kinetic Resolution. Model Studies and Directed Evolution.
Jan-Erling Báckvall,
professor of chemistry,
Stockholm University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Space, Complex Networks, and Microfluidic Tools
Rustem F. Ismagilov,
professor of chemistry,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Can megathrust-type earthquakes happen in the NW Himalaya?
Doug Yule,
associate professor of geological sciences,
California State University, Northridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Are We Descended From Heavy Neutrinos?
Boris Kayser,
Theoretical Physics Particle Physics Division,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Humanlike Robots: The Realization of the Science Fiction of Synthetic Humans
Dr. Yosi Bar-Cohen,
senior research scientist and group supervisor,
Advanced Technologies and NDEAA Lab,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
9:30am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Thomas Faulkner,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Stretched or Sealed? The Fate of Extra Dimensions
I-Sheng Yang,
Columbia University,
2:00pm
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7:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulence and Internal Gravity Waves in a Stratified Environment
Sutanu Sarkar,
professor of fluid mechanics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Energetics and Heat Budget of Earths Mantle Convection
Wei Leng,
Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA-Mediated Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Biosensing Applications
Jason Slinker,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Learned Surgeons and the Cultures of Print in Renaissance Venice
Cynthia Klestinec,
assistant professor of English,
Miami University of Ohio,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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