Institute Calendar
November 2006
Monday, November 6th, 2006
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 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 Control of Coupled Spins in a Mesoscopic Environment
Jake Taylor,
research fellow in physics,
MIT,
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
Stellar Mass Density of the Universe at z~6
Haojing Yan,
physical scientist associate,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Do We Have a Theory for Reactions at Metal Interfaces? The Unsolved Problem of Electronic Non-Adiabaticity
Alec M. Wodtke,
professor of chemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mechanisms Regulating Synaptic Transmission in C. elegans
Josh Kaplan,
professor of genetics,
department of molecular biology,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
6:00am
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10:00pm
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8:30am
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4:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling PAH and PCB Sources and Degradation in Aquatic Sediments Based on Factor Analysis with Nonnegative Constraints
Professor Erik Christensen,
department of civil engineering and mechanics,
University of WisconsinMilwaukee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Highly Nonlinear Phononic Crystals
Chiara Daraio,
assistant professor of aeronautics and applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Trouble in Paradise? The Tale of Solar Abundances
Sarbani Basu,
pfrofessor of astronomy and DGS,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Programmable and Configurable Analog Signal Processing towards Neuromorphic Applications
Paul Hasler,
associate professor ,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Volcanic Studies of Pyroclastic Volcanoes in the Lesser Antilles
Alan L. Smith,
professor of geological sciences,
California State University, San Bernardino,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-Like Forces at Sub-mm Distance
Aaron Kapitulnik,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Joerg Teschner,
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Search for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in Sr2RuO4 and Other Novel Superconductors
Aharon Kapitulnik,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Frederik Denef,
associate professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Vortex Hemodynamics
David Auerbach,
professor of fluid dynamics,
University of Graz, Austria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Controlling Catalytic Reactivity through Metal Spin State
Vernon C. Gibson,
professor of inorganic chemistry,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
"Searching for Supersymmetry in Low-Energy Experiments"
Carlos Wagner,
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
High-Performance Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Circuits
Zoya Popovic,
professor of electrical engineering,
University of Colorado,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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11:00am
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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