Institute Calendar
May 2006
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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1:45pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Serpi Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture - NOTE SPEAKER/TOPIC CHANGE
DeCoding the Da Vinci Code, the Gospel of Judas and Other Biblical Mysteries
Tim Callahan,
Skeptic magazine religion editor and author,
3:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Novel Reactivity at Iron Centers Supported by Poly(phosphino)borate Ligands
Christine Thomas,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Burning of the Biosphere: Fire and Its Role in the Earth System
James T. Randerson,
associate professor,
department of earth system science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Results from Babar and on Cosmological Parameters from Weak Gravitational Lensing
Justin Albert,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Scaling Analysis of the Small-Scale Structure in Turbulence
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Gravity from Quantum Computation: Observational Consequences
Seth Lloyd,
professor of mechanical engineering,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Incorporating Molecular Understanding in Process Design
Martha Gallivan,
assistant professor of chemistry,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
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
Effects of Feedback and Environment on the Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies
Yeshe Fenner,
postdoctoral fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Uncovering Design Rules for Light-Driven Molecular Devices from First Principles Dynamics
Todd J. Martinez,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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
Optimal Sobolev Regularity of a Class of Fourier Integral
Malabika Pramanik,
senior research fellow in mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Decisions, Decisions: The Ellsberg Paradox and the Neural Foundations of Decision Making under Uncertainty
Ming Hsu,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis of Biologically Important N- and O-Heterocycles
Peter A. Jacobi,
professor of chemistry,
Dartmouth College,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:30am
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2:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Towards Atomic-Resolution Manipulation: Multi-Scale Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy Processes
Santiago Solares,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Repeated Decision Making and Online Optimization
Adam Tauman Kalai,
assistant professor,
Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Back-Action in Mesoscopic Physics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Aashish Clerk,
assistant professor of physics,
McGill University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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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
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Planetary Robotics: To Mars and Beyond
Dr. Ashley Stroupe,
staff engineer,
Mars Exploration Rovers Engineering Team,
JPL,
Brett Kennedy,
staff engineer,
Robotic Hardware Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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