Institute Calendar
October 2006
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lakon/Hipp Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
9:00am
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ly Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Alvarado/Lainez 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: Chu/Pena Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 16th, 2006
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Gardar Alkaline Province, South Greenland
Brian G.J. Upton,
professor emeritus of petrology,
School of GeoSciences,
University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Massive Jets in Effective Field Theory
Sonny Mantry,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Discrete Network Approximation for Highly Packed Particle-Filled Composites
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
7:00am
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10:00pm
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10:00am
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10/19
3:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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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
Optimal Quantum Measurements
Rolando Somma,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
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
Clumpy Disk Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
Bruce Elmegreen,
research scientist,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Ultracompact Binaries: Orbital Periods Shorter than This Talk
Lars Bildsten,
permanent member,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Dual Role for the GTPase Dynamin in Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
Sandra Schmid,
professor and chair,
department of cell biology,
Scripps Research Institute,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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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
A Strong Szegö Theorem for Jacobi Matrices
Eric Ryckman,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Opening Mirror Symmetry on the Quintic
Johannes Walcher,
School of Natural Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Kissing Butterflies and Chips Bag: Unraveling the Chemistry of Phenazine Biosynthesis
Dr. Wulf Blankenfeldt,
physical biochemistry department,
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Selfconsistent Lensing and Stellar Dynamics: Probing Galaxies to z=1
Leon Koopmans,
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, the Netherlands,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Chemical Tools for Site-Selective Protein Modification
Matthew B. Francis,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
5:15pm
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7:15pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
10:00am
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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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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Quest for the Ultimate Structure of Matter and the Universe: Particle Physics in China
Yifang Wang,
professor,
Institute of High Energy Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Atomistic Modeling of Nanoporous Materials and Their Properties: Layered Double Hydroxides and Composite Polymers
Muhammad Sahimi,
NIOC Professor of Petroleum Engineering and professor of chemical engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Genes Sequences, Gene Content, and Gene Order: Trying to Find a "Genomic" Record for Geobiology
Chris H. House,
assistant professor of geosciences,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Stem Cells, a Primer
David Baltimore,
president emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology,
Caltech,
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
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
Type-II Actions from an 11-Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory
Dmitry Belov,
research associate,
theoretical physics group,
Imperial College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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GALCIT Colloquium
In-situ Observations of Crack Propagation in Brittle Solids
Herzl Chai,
visiting associate in aeronautics,
Caltech,