Institute Calendar
January 2007
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
12:00pm
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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
Earth's Deep Interior
Jennifer Jackson,
division of geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Computational Intractability as a Law of Physics
Scott Aaronson,
postdoctoral scholar,
Institute for Quantum Computing and department of combinatorics and optimization,
University of Waterloo,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA Presents "Technology and Business—Harder Than Science?"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Ken Pickar,
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Project for Effective Teaching (CPET) Seminar
Project-Based Teaching: CS/EE/ME 75 and the DARPA Grand Challenge
Richard M. Murray,
Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems; director, Information Science and Technology,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
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
Decoding Bulk Geometry from Gauge Theory Correlators
Veronika Hubeny,
department of mathematical sciences,
University of Durham,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Phase Transitions and Ergodicity in Driven Foams
Michael Dennin,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
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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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Protein Engineering via Site-Specific Incorporation of Nonnatural Amino Acids
Inchan Kwon,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Geometric Models for Dimensionality Reduction in Signal and Data Processing
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Recent Developments in Thin Film Mechanics
John Hutchinson,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA Mediated Charge Transfer on Graphite
Alon Gorodetsky,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Directional Antennas in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Sonia Furman, Ph.D.,
aerospace/communications division,
ITT Corporation,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Medical Devices: The Intersection of Software Engineering, Electronic Advancement and Medical Sciences
9:00am
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11:00pm
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Budney Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Low Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Haylock Party (Melissa Leivers/James Penn)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Brown Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop: "Snooze Your Way to Success: How to Improve Your Sleep Habits"
Tim Cunningham,
sleep disorders specialist,
Huntington Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Integration of Cytoskeletal Systems in Directed Cell Migration
Clare Waterman-Storer,
associate professor of cell biology,
the Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Risk, Reward, and Information: fMRI Studies of Learning and Decision Making
Russell Poldrack,
associate professor of psychology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW Scattering
Benjamin Grinstein,
professor of physics,
UC San Diego,
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Engineering Protein-based materials through coiled-coil motifs
Kechun Zhang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Superpolynomial Speedups Using Almost Any Quantum Circuit
Aram Harrow,
lecturer,
department of computer science,
University of Bristol,
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
The Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective
Timothy Heckman,
professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Andrew Murray,
professor of molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
The Hidden Lives of Proteins: Translating Mechanical Forces into Biochemical Signal Changes (technical lecture)
Professor Viola Vogel,
department of materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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