Institute Calendar
March 2007
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Controlling Cells and Circuits in the Mouse Brain
Boris Zemelman,
associate research scientist,
Laboratory of Neural Systems, Department of Cell Biology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Nie Shuming,
professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, hematology, and oncology,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar—CANCELLED
Karl A. Scheidt,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Synthetic Biology: From Bacteria to Stem Cells
Ron Weiss,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Lighting the Way in Biomedicine
Changhuei Yang,
assistant professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Modeling Transcriptional Regulation
Matteo Pellegrini,
assistant professor of molecular cell and developmental biology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Semi-optimal Models of Learned Decision Making
Nathaniel Daw,
assistant professor of neural science and psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Why and How Bugs Cause Formation of Mineral Concretions
Max Coleman,
Center for Life Detection,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Jasons
Ann Finkbeiner,
visiting associate professor,
Johns Hopkins University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:30pm
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Reconstructing 1/2 BPS Geometries from N = 4 SYM
Samuel Vazquez,
department of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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High Energy Theory Seminar
Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity?
Kirill Krasnov,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the K-Version Least-Squares Finite Element Models of Problems in Mechanics
J.N. Reddy,
professor and chair of mechanical engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Alkane C-H Activation at a Pt(II) Center
George Chen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
The Race to Detect Dark Matter with Noble Liquids, and the Status of XENON10
Thomas Shutt,
associate professor of physics,
Case Western Reserve University,
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, March 10th, 2007
8:00am
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3/13
5:00pm
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10:00am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
9:00am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Competition and Ultrasensitivity in the Regulation of Wee1
James E. Ferrell,
professor,
department of molecular pharmacology and department of biochemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrated Models of Scenes and Objects
Antonio Torralba,
research scientist,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Contextuality and Nonclassicality
Robert Spekkens,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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
Measuring Cosmological Parameters
Wendy Freedman,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Market Mechanisms for Agent Coordination
Sven Koenig,
associate professor of computer science,
USC,