Institute Calendar
February 2012
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
The Structural Basis for Activation of Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductase
Amie Boal,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University,
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
Understanding RVB states with PEPS
David Perez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Mathematical Analysis,
Complutense University of Madrid,
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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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Jack Holt,
Research Scientist,
Institute for Geophysics,
Univ. of Texas-Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Protein folding, environmental stress, and the inheritance of new phenotypes
Daniel Jarosz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research,
MIT,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Size of the Nodal Sets of Solutions of Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
See event detail for location
Racial Gerrymandering in Texas: Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Controlling Light with Meta-Symmetries and Couplings
Boubacar Kante,
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center,
University of California Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states
Max Metlitski,
Dr.,
Kavli Institute for Theorethical Physics ,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
7:30am
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8:30am
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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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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations
Eric Kort,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies,
JPL/Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Single-walled aluminosilicate nanotubes: emerging materials for separations and renewable energy technology
Dun-Yen Kang,
PhD candidate,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
On the diversity equivalence theorem
Joseph Boutros,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Texas A&M University at Qatar,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Using High-Order CFD Methods to Predict and Understand Complex Unsteady Flows
Antony Jameson,
Thomas V. Jones Professor in the School of Engineering,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Black Holes Get Loud. And Bright.
Janna Levin,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Barnard College,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Hollywood's First Wave of "Holocaust" Films: From Frank Sinatra to Anne Frank
Lawrence Baron,
Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History,
Department of History,
San Diego State University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
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
OPE of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators
Natalia Saulina,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Observing Ways Nature Overcame Elemental Austerity
Kyle M. Lancaster,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis with Ruthenium Catalysts
Keith Keitz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Malkchyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boghos Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkisyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Krikorian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith
Dr. Andy Thomson,
staff psychiatrist,
University of Virginia,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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2/17
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Functional integration of large ncRNAs in the molecular circuitry controlling cell state
Mitchell Guttman,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Evolutionary Principles of Protein Structure and Function
Rama Ranganathan,
Professor of Systems Biology,
Department of Pharmacology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Some Recent Results
Gerhard Erker,
Professor,
Organic Chemical Institute,
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Environments of Human Evolution: The Isotope Evidence
Thure E. Cerling,
Distinguished Professor,
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and Dept. of Biology,
University of Utah,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Strategies for Solving Complex Problems in Chemical, Materials, Biological, and Physical Sciences
William A. Goddard,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor,
Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
7:30am
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8:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Random Matrices and Dyson Brownian Motion
Horng-Tzer Yau,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Who, Where and When - Targeting for Display Advertising
Vanja Josifovski,
Yahoo! Research,
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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