Institute Calendar
May 2011
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5/25
10:00pm
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5/3
5:00pm
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5/1
6:00pm
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5/1
6:00pm
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Sunday, May 1st, 2011
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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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency (joint with Matthew O. Jackson)
Leeat Yariv,
professor of economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Large Scale Structure and Extreme Star formation at z>4
Peter Capak,
staff scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Emulating Quantum Magnetism and t--J Models in Systems of Ultracold Polar Molecules
Salvatore Manmana,
JILA,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Past (and Future?) of Earth's Carbon Cycle: the Role of Weathering and Erosion
A. Joshua West,
assistant professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Lewis Acidic Properties of Heavier Pnictogenium and Chalcogenium Ions
Francois P. Gabbai,
professor of chemistry,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On New Physics Models for the Tevatron Top Forward Backward Asymmetry
Kathryn Zurek,
Univ of Michigan,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
8:00am
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8:00pm
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9:00am
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10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Quanitzation of Slodowy Slices and Instanton Counting
Alexander Braverman,
Brown University,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Case Studies in Kinase Inhibition
Andrew S. Tasker,
Dr., Scientific Executive Director,
Medicinal Chemistry,
Amgen, Inc.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
After "Eureka!": Technology, Finance, and Policy Keys to Our Energy Future
Arati Prabhakar,
U.S. Venture Partners,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Parallel Repetition of Entangled Games
Thomas Vidick,
UC Berkeley,
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
The Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies from Elemental Abundance Measurements
Evan Kirby,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Materials and Mechanics for Bio-Integrated Electronics
John Rogers,
professor of material science and engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Religion and Early Social Science: Thinking about Population after La Peyrère
Ted McCormick,
assistant professor of history,
Concordia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Leadership role of Chemical Engineers in the 21st Century Civilization
Jae Chun Hyun,
professor of chemical engineering and director of the Applied Rheology Center,
Korea University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Andrea Isella,
senior postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Horowitz Lecture
Setting and Protecting Germline Fate
Ruth Lehmann,
professor of cell biology,
New York University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Watching the Cosmic Fireworks Display: An Observers Log
Mansi Kasliwal,
graduate student in astrophysics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
CNS Drug Discovery: Inhibitors of Beta-secretase as Potential Disease Modifying Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease
Wenge Zhong,
Dr.,
Chemistry Research & Discovery,
Amgen, Inc.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Shell Polynomials and Indeterminate Moment Problems
Jacob S. Christiansen,
research fellow in mathematical sciences,
University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Recent Results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on Hubble
Michael Shull,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Search and Satisficing
Mark Dean,
associate professor of economics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of Stationary Rossby Waves in Shaping Storm Track Dynamics
Yohai Kaspi,
postdoctoral scholar in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Top Down Chemistry: Functionalization and Applications of Nano-Carbon Materials
Timothy M. Swager,
professor of chemistry,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Catalysis for Sustainable Energy
J.K. Nørskov,
professor of chemical engineering and photon science,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
8:30am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Tapio Schneider,
Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chamber Studies of Organic Aerosol Using a High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
Puneet Singh Chhabra,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
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
OGLE-IV - the Fourth Phase of the OGLE Survey
Andrzej Udalski,
University of Warsaw,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Field-theoretic Simulations: A New Tool for Design of Polymer Nanostructures
Glenn Fredrickson,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Melt Generation in Lithologically Heterogeneous Mantle Sources: Theory, Models and Applications to the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province
Eric Brown,
graduate student,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Light Trapping for High-efficiency Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells
Corsin Battaglia,
EPFL PV-Lab, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Gravity Mapping and Climate Monitoring: Past and Future
Michael M. Watkins,
GRACE Project Scientist,
JPL,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene
Myles W. Jackson,
professor of the history and philosophy of science and technology,
Polytechnic Institute and Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
9:00am
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5/7
5:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference
Molecular Biology and Intellectual Property in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson,
professor of the history and philosophy of science and technology,
Polytechnic Institute and Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University,
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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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Harmony of Superstring Amplitudes: Implications from/to Field Theory
Stephan Stieberger,
MPI Munich,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Light Trapping in Plasmonic Solar Cells
Vivian Ferry,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,