Institute Calendar
March 2010
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Oxo Functionalization in the Uranyl Ion
Trevor Hayton,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dual Supermassive Black Holes as Tracers of Galaxy Mergers
Julie Comerford,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Early Events in the Establishment of Axon-Dendrite Polarity during Neuronal Development
Maya Shelly,
postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cell biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Lessons Learned from the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
Peter Shearer,
professor of geophysics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UC San Diego,
4:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Surface Adsorbates Fluctuations and Phase Noise
Philip X.L. Feng,
senior staff scientist in condensed matter physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Understanding Baryon Masses from the Lattice
Elizabeth Jenkins,
professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
8:00am
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9:30am
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10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Quantum Black Holes and Mock Modular Forms
Don Zagier,
Max Planck Institute, Bonn,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Accelerate Your Favorite Numerical Integrator with Two Lines of Code
Houman Owhadi,
assistant professor of applied and computational mathematics and control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Gaspar Bakos,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
The Interaction of Light and Sound at the Frontiers of Nanotechnology and Quantum Mechanics
Matthew Eichenfield,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves
Ben Owen,
Center for Gravitational Wave Physics,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Imaging Reaction Sequences with Isomeric Selectivity
David Osborn,
Combustion Research Facility,
Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
On the Ball Studies of Neural Circuits
David Tank,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Zeta Functions, Periods, and Diophantine Equations
Don Zagier,
scientific member and director,
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
5:15pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
8:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Variational Estimates for Carleson's Operator and Applications
Christoph Thiele,
professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Understanding the Cosmic Recombination Epoch
Chris Hirata,
assistant professor of astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Short and Long-term Climatic Impacts on Water Circulation in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
Jason Antenucci,
associate professor and deputy director,
Center for Water Research,
University of Western Australia,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Phase Transitions and Cytoplasmic Self-Assembly
Cliff Brangwynne,
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics,
and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
10:00am
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General Biology Seminar
Proteome Dynamics—System-Wide Studies of Translation Regulation and Protein Turnover
Christine Vogel,
Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Chengjiang Drilling Project: Evidence for the Mechanism of Burgess Shale-type Fossil Preservation
Robert Gaines,
assistant professor of geology,
Pomona College,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscale Electro-thermal Energy Conversion Devices and Measurements
Ali Shakouri,
professor of electrical engineering and director,
Thermionic Energy Conversion Center,
UC Santa Cruz ,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of the 199Hg Atom
Norval Fortson,
professor of physics,
University of Washington,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Supermatrix Model for AdS4/CFT3
Diego Trancanelli,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC San Diego,
2:30pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fish Swimming Stability
Bill Schultz,
professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Ground Motion Simulations of Scenario Earthquake Ruptures of the Hayward Fault
Brad Aagaard,
research geophysicist,
United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cytochrome c-b562 Folding Induced by Ultrafast Mixing
Nicole D. Bouley,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
THz Bipolar Transistors and nm InP MOSFETS: Scaling principles, Scaling barriers, Technology Development
Mark Rodwell,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
10:30am
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Torok Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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