Institute Calendar
October 2010
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From Genes to Biogeochemical Cycles: A Marine Sulfur Cycle Case Study
Naomi Marcil Levine,
postdoctoral fellow organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Micromechanical Testing of MEMS Structures
Warren C. Oliver,
president of Nanomechanics, Inc.,
and adjunct professor,
University of Tennessee ,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microrheology of Fluid Interfaces: Visualization, Viscoelasticity, Yielding, and Slow Recovery of Phospholipid Monolayers
Todd Squires,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Theoretical Basis for Invigoration of Deep Convective Clouds Due to Increased Aerosol Concentrations; Investigating dissolved iron and particle interactions in seawater with laboratory experiments
Zach Lebo,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
Anna Beck,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Search for Complex Order Parameter Symmetry in Unconventional Superconductors
Dale Van Harlingen,
professor of physics,
Materials Research Laboratory and the NSF Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity,
University of Illinois,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Michael Werner,
chief scientist, Astronomy and Physics Directorate, JPL; project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:00pm
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10/15
12:30am
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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6:00pm
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10:00am
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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
Chiral Operators on the One Instanton Moduli Space
Noppadol Mekareeya,
Imperial College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Heterogeneity, Mobility, and the Role of Local Institutions in Self-Organizing Communities
Andrea Robbett,
graduate student,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Markaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Protocols for the Optimal Design of Multi-functional Structures: From Hypersonics to Micro-architected Materials
Lorenzo Valdevit,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tadevosyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Markaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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)
Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Michael Werner,
chief scientist, Astronomy and Physics Directorate, JPL; project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:59pm
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
8:30am
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1:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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7:00pm
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Video and Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni (approved)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dynamics of NGC 205 and M32, Andromeda's Tidally Distorted Satellites
Kristen Howley,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Walter Hofstetter,
Goethe University, Frankfurt,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
On the Relative Robustness of the Size of Tests to Local Model Violations
Patrik Guggenberger,
associate professor of economics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Earthquakes and Water (And Why an Earthquake Did Not Cause the LUSI Mud Volcano in Indonesia to Erupt)
Michael Manga,
professor of Earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Role of Spin in Solar Fuels Catalysis
Malcolm D. E. Forbes,
professor of chemistry,
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sampling in Spaces of Bandlimited Functions and Variational Splines on Combinatorial Graphs
Misha Pesenson,
Research Scientist in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Isaac Z. Pesenson,
Mathematics,
Temple University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Secondary Photons and Neutrinos from Distant Blazars and the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
Warren Essey,
UCLA,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:40pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Applications of High-Frequency Ultrasonics in Microfluidics and Microactuation
James Friend,
professor,
MicroNanophysics Research Laboratory,
Monash University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
A Direct Measurement of the Intergalactic Medium Opacity to H I Ionizing Photons
Jason X Prochaska,
Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Micro- and Nano-structured Semiconductor Devices on Amorphous Substrates for Low-cost Energy Conversion, Sensing and Displays
M. Saif Islam,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Waves from First Order Phase Transitions
Chiara Caprini,
Institut de Physique Théorique,
CEA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Accelerating Molecular Dynamics of Rare Events
Graeme Henkelman,
associate professor of chemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Recovery of Compressively Sampled Signals Using Partial Support Information
Hasson Mansour,
postdoctoral research fellow in computer and communications engineering,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Prenatal Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
Alan Brown,
associate professor of clinical epidemiology and associate professor of clinical psychiatry,
Columbia University Medical Center,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Correlated Genotypes in Friendship Networks
James H. Fowler,
professor,
School of Medicine and Division of Social Sciences,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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