Institute Calendar
February 2007
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Chernoff Bound and Asymptotic Error Exponents in Quantum Hypothesis Testing
Frank Verstraete,
professor of theoretical physics,
University of Vienna,
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
Echoes of Galaxy Assembly: Faint Light Around Nearby Galaxies
Julianne Dalcanton,
associate professor of astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Learning about Spatial Contexts by Single Hippocampal Neurones
John O'Keefe,
professor of cognitive neuroscience,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Constraining the Standard Model: Recent Results from D0
John Ellison,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Riverside,
9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 7th, 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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Wavepacket Spreading on the Fibonacci Chain
David Damanik,
associate professor of mathematics,
Rice University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology
Bob Kirshner,
professor of science,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Diversity and Design: New Small Molecule Probes for Biology and Medicine
Derek S. Tan,
tri-institutional assistant professor,
SloanKettering Institute for Cancer Research, Cornell University, and The Rockefeller University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Thomae's Theorem and Some Generalizations
Herschel Farkas,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop: "Overcoming Procrastination"
Kevin Austin,
psychologist and director of the Counseling Center,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar - CANCELED
Robert H. Chow,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems,
department of physiology and biophysics, and endocrinology,
Keck School of Medicine, USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neuronal Encoding of Economic Value
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa,
research fellow in neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry/Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools for Biological Imaging
Ivan Dmochowski,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quasicrystals—Some of Nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter
Ron Lifshitz,
senior lecturer in physics,
Tel Aviv University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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, February 9th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Dynamics of a Magnetic Superfluid
Dan Stamper-Kurn,
assistant professor of atomic physics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Structured Concurrent Programming
Jayadev Misra,
professor and chair of computer sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Engineering New Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease via Optimal Design and Physiologic Simulation
Alison Marsden,
postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies of Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes and Development of Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Protonation
Smaranda Marinescu,
visiting student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Effective Operators, Neutrino Mass, Muon Decay, and Higgs Production
Jennifer Kile,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Carbon Nanotubes for Potential Electronic and Optoelectonic Applications
Jia Chen,
IBM Watson Research Center,
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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11:00pm
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Will Biologists Give Moore More Life? Opportunities as Biology and Circuitry Meet
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lee 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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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
10:00am
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11:30am
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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, February 12th, 2007
9:00am
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9:01am
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