Institute Calendar
February 2007
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
10:00am
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Partial Identification of Counterfactual Choice Probabilities
Charles F. Manski,
professor of economics,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Spiral: Generating Parallel Transforms
Franz Franchetti,
systems scientist,
department of electrical and computer engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Gulf Stream Temperature, Salinity, and Transport for the Past Millennium
David Lund,
postdoctoral scholar in geology and planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Practical Network Coding by Binary Superposition of Codewords
Joerg Kliewer,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Monitoring the Earth's Climate through Gravity: Latest Results from GRACE
Michael Watkins,
research scientist,
Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
9:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Infinite Dimensional R Symmetries in M-Theory
Hermann Nicolai,
Albert Einstein Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Theory of the Phase Diagram of the Cuprates
Chandra Varma,
professor of physics,
UC Riverside,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
18F Functionalized Nanoparticles as in vivo Molecular Imaging Agents
John Matson,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Upgrades to the CSO: A 280-420 Ghz Wide IF Band Rx and Beyond
Jacob Kooi,
SRON-Groningen and Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
10:30am
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12:30pm
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1:45pm
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3:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Estrada Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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, February 4th, 2007
11:30am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Texture Transitions, Electro-Optics, and Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Gels with Novel Network Architectures
Rafael Verduzco,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Controlling Olefin Metathesis through Catalyst and Monomer Design
Andrew Hejl,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Building a High-Performance Event-Based Silicon Retina Leads to New Ways to Compute Vision
Tobi Delbruck,
group leader,
Institute for Neuroinformatics,
Uni-Eth, Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Novel Family of Sensory Receptors in the Nose
Stephen Liberles,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of the Group 11 Metals: Synthetic and Catalytic Studies
Joseph P. Sadighi,
associate professor of chemistry,
MIT,
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Crafting of Bioactive Nanostructures for Regeneration
Samuel Stupp,
professor of materials science, chemistry, and medicine,
and director of the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine,
Northwestern University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
7:00am
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10:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Oxidation of the Crust—Its Pace and the Role of Crust-Mantle Exchanges of Carbon
John Hayes,
senior scientist,
department of geology and geophysics,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Selective Desensitization of Growth Factor Signaling by Cell Adhesion to Fibronectin
Niki Galownia,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions: Applications to Microrheology and Nonequilibrium Depletion Interactions
Aditya Khair,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Computational Studies of the Structure and Function of Two Lipid-Activated GPCRs
Rachel Niemer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,