Institute Calendar
May 2010
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
9:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Getting the Green for Your Green Technology: Financing Your GreenTech Venture
Marianne Wu,
partner,
Mohr Davidow Ventures,
10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Jensen Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chorbajian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Satelyan/Santuryan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkissiani Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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5/9
2:00am
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Understanding the Neural Networks of Attention: a New Global Player in Inferotemporal Cortex?
Winrich Freiwald,
assistant professor of neural systems,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radiation Damage in Minerals
Ekhard Salje,
professor of mineralogy and petrology,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Understanding Machine Tool Development in the United States: Uniting Economic and Business History
Ross Thomson,
associate professor of economics,
University of Vermont,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Bestest Little Higgs
Daniel Stolarski,
graduate student in physics,
UC Berkeley,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:45pm
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10:45pm
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Tuesday, May 11th, 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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IST Lunch Bunch
Future Innovations and What They Mean for Sustainable Cities
Paul Camuti,
president and chief executive officer,
Siemens Corporate Research,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Efficient Generation of Hyperpolarized Molecules Utilizing the Scalar Order of Parahydrogen
Valerie Norton,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor
Richard Harris,
senior experimental physicist,
D-Wave Systems,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chamber Studies and Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Arthur Chan,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
See event detail for location
Cauchy-Characteristic Waveform Extraction from Binary Black-Hole Inspiral and Merger Simulations
Christian Reisswig,
postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Simulations of Matter at Extreme and Ambient Conditions
Julius T. Su, Ph.D.,
Member of the Staff, Materials and Process Simulation Center,
Beckman Institute,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dissection of the Visual Motion Detection Circuitry in Drosophila: A Combined Genetic and Physiological Approach
Dierk Reiff,
Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology,
Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
What's New on Venus? Implications for Climate and Interior
Sue Smrekar,
planetary scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Investigating Molecular Size Variations in Thin Film Chemical Vapor Sensors
Anna Folinsky,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Infinite Gap Case
Jacob S. Christiansen,
research fellow in mathematical sciences,
University of Copenhagen,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Distinguishing Classical from Quantum Annealing in a Multi-qubit System
Mohammad Amin,
head theorist,
D-Wave Systems,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Multistate GTPases Control Co-Translational Protein Targeting
Xin Zhang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Gas and Galaxy Evolution in the Local Universe
Jacqueline van Gorkom,
professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving the Discrepancy between Laboratory and Field-based Reaction Rates: Insights from Isotopes and Reactive Transport Models
Kate Maher,
assistant professor of environmental isotope geochemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cellular Mechanisms of Morphogenesis in C. Elegans
Bob Goldstein,
associate professor of biology,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Molecular Studies of Catalytic Selectivity of Metal Nanoparticles under Reaction Conditions. New Instruments and Evolution of Concepts.
Gabor A. Somorjai,
professor of chemistry,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Activity-Based Proteomics—Applications for Enzyme and Inhibitor Discovery
Benjamin Cravatt,
professor of chemical physiology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
10:00am
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Emotion and Attention in the Primate Amygdala: Neural and Autonomic Correlates
Katalin Gothard,
associate professor of physiology,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Nonlinear Hystectic Restoring Forces
Jin-Song Pei,
associate professor of structural engineering,
University of Oklahoma,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Microbial Mat-Environment Interactions in Lake Joyce, Antarctica, and Implications for Archean Microbialites
Dawn Sumner,
professor of geology,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Soft Directions in Biology: What Can We Learn About from Networks?
Sharad Ramanathan,
assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology and of applied physics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits
David Yu Zhang,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supercurrents and Supergravity
Zohar Komargodski,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Superconductivity and Quantum Hall States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator
Ashvin Vishwanath,
associate professor of physics,
UC Berkeley,