Institute Calendar
April 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metamaterial Hyperlenses and Spin-wave Resonators Fabricated by Rolled-up Nanotech
Stefan Mendach,
professor of physics,
University of Hamburg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Tracing Desert Sand Over Tens to Millions of Years
Pieter Vermeesch,
academic fellow in Earth sciences,
Birkbeck College, University of London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters and Activated Hydrazones in the Development of New Synthetic Methods: Applications to Natural Product Synthesis
Don Coltart,
professor of chemistry,
Duke University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Optical Systems
Peter Zoller,
University of Innsbruck,
and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Simulating Atmospheric Phenomena on Io: Plumes, Glows and Flows
David Goldstein,
Computational Fluid Physics Laboratory,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Fiction and Scientific Modeling
Roman Frigg,
senior lecturer in philosophy,
London School of Economics,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Towards a Construction of Holographic Superconductors
Wen-Yu Wen,
visitor in physics,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Functions of Key Structural Unit and Performance Optimization in Novel Thermoelectric Materials
Lidong Chen,
professor,
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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2:00pm
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7:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
DNS of Boundary Layer Transition over Textured and Rough Surfaces
David Goldstein,
professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering ,
the University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Hydrodynamic Limits for the Boltzmann Equations
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nonproductive Events in Ring-Closing Metathesis
Keith Keitz,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Greek Atomism and the Mechanical Philosophy
Sylvia Berryman,
associate professor of philosophy,
University of British Columbia,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
9:30am
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2:30pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Gegezyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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7:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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1:00am
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Investigating the Physical Basis of Biomineralization
Patricia Dove,
professor of geochemistry and biogeochemistry,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Chemistry of Triazacyclohexanes and Hexaazaisowurtzitanes: from Metal Clusters to Metal Mediated Cage Degradation
Randolf Kohn,
professor of chemistry,
University of Bath,
4:00pm
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4:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Landau-Zener Problem in Many Body Systems: Applications to Cold Atoms, Cavity QED and Superconductivity
Victor Gurarie,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Few Interesting Trees in the WIMP Forest
Tim Tait,
theoretical high energy physicist,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Adaptive Data Analysis via Nonlinear Compressed Sensing
Thomas Y. Hou,
Powell Professor of Applied and Computional Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Achieving Freely Falling Test Masses in LISA and LISA Pathfinder
Bill Weber,
University of Trento, Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Multiscale Modeling of Complex Biological Systems; Exploring Problematic Dynamical Proposals and Quantifying Enzyme Catalysis
Arieh Warshel,
professor of chemistry,
USC,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Using Stem Cells and Reprogramming to Study Neural Degeneration: Case Studies in ALS
Kevin Eggan,
assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Marshall Perrin,
postdoctoral fellow in physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Screening with an Approximate Type Space
Kristof Madarasz,
assistant professor of managerial economics,
MES, STICERD,
London School of Economics,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Mesoscopic Glassy Orders in a Manganite Thin Film Observed by Microwave Imaging
Keji Lai,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
10:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Orthogonal Polynomials with Recursion Coefficients of Generalized Bounded Variation
Milivoje Lukic,
graduate student in PMA,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Stellar Initial Mass Function and the Early Stages of Star and Brown Dwarf Evolution
Gilles Chabrier,
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Mak Saito,
associate scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Crystallization of NiTi Shape Memory Thin Films
Ainissa G. Ramirez,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar- Cancelled, To be rescheduled
Adapting Proteostasis to Ameliorate Loss- and Gain-of-Function Misfolding Diseases
Jeffery W. Kelly,
professor of chemistry,
the Scripps Research Institute,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air"
See event detail for location
David MacKay (PhD '92),
Chief Scientific Advisor, DECC; Professor of Natural Philosophy,
University of Cambridge,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
10:00am
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Social Cognition and Decision Making Impairments in Psychopathy: The Roles of the Amygdala and vmPFC
James Blair,
National Institute of Mental Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Records of Climate Change in Wind-blown Dune Deposits in the North Polar Region of Mars
Ryan Ewing,
postdoctoral scholar in geology and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Simulations of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Saul Teukolsky,
professor of physics and astronomy,
Cornell University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models
Joseph Conlon,
University of Oxford,