Institute Calendar
February 2012
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
Fernando Pastawski,
Max-Planck Institute,
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
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Channel Coding in Wireless
Martin Bossert,
Channel Coding in Wireless,
Communications Engineering,
University of Ulm, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
A Complementary Pivot Algorithm for Market Equilibrium under Separable, Piecewise-Linear Concave Utilities
Vijay Vazirani,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Two new approaches to the Early Mars climate problem
Edwin Kite,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Catalytic conversion of hemi-cellulose and cellulose to fuels and chemicals (technical lecture)
James A. Dumesic,
Steenbock Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
10:00am
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11:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Anxiety and Health in the Fourteenth Century: A Doctor Explores the Healing Power of a Holy Womans Voice
Nicole A. Archambeau,
ACLS Postdoctoral Instructor in History,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Heat Kernel Bounds for Schrodinger Operators on Bounded Lipschitz Domains With Robin-type Boundary Conditions
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories
Vasliy Pestun,
Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Group-testing meets compressive sensing: Novel LP-based decoding algorithms for non-linear (disjunctive) measurements
Sidharth Jaggi,
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Information Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper
Jake Gebbie,
Assistant Scientist,
Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluable Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems
Robert G. Bergman,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Protein folding on the ribosome: Pulling on single nascent chains with optical tweezers
Christian Kaiser,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
QB3 Institute and Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Simulating Atomization
Marcus Herrman,
Assistant Professor,
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Bose-metals of frustrated spins and bosons and towards non-Fermi-liquids of electrons
Lesik Motrunich,
Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Condensed Matter Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Strategies for catalytic conversion of biomass to hydrogen and liquid hydrocarbon fuels (general lecture)
James A. Dumesic,
Steenbock Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Climate Sciences and the Climate Center of JPL
Dr. Graeme Stephens,
JPL Center for Climate Science Director; CloudSat Principal Investigator,
JPL,
8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A refinement of entanglement entropy and the number of degrees of freedom
Hong Liu,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Popularity Versus Similarity in Growing Networks
Dmitri Krioukov,
Senior Research Scientist,
San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California, San Diego,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Reshaping Elastomers with Light: First Principles Model of Diffusion-Induced Deformation
Ryan Turner,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Analytical & Experimental Studies on Layered Multiferroic Materials (Macro-Nano)
Greg Carman,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Characterization of an unusual collection of olfactory neurons in the nose
Cambrian Yangshao Liu,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Carbon-Oxygen Bond Activation in Nickel-Diphosphine-Ether Complexes
Paul Kelley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies
Maysam Ghovanloo,
Associate Professor,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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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
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Climate Sciences and the Climate Center of JPL
Dr. Graeme Stephens,
JPL Center for Climate Science Director; CloudSat Principal Investigator,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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2/18
3:00am
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Saturday, February 18th, 2012
2:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chicagyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aleksanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Manukyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
4:00am
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11:15am
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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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2:30pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Adzhemyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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11:30pm
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Family Portrait Photography on Campus: Robles Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography