Institute Calendar
May 2007
Monday, May 7th, 2007
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Universal Nonperturbative Effects in Two-Jet Event Shapes
Chris Lee,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute for Nuclear Theory,
University of Washington,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
8:00am
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8:00pm
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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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Geometry of Quantum Criticality
Paolo Zanardi,
associate professor of physics,
USC,
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
Quasars Probing Quasars: Shedding (Quasar) Light on High Redshift Galaxies
Joseph Hennawi,
Hubble Fellow,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Studies on Cadherins and Catenin Roles in Synapse Formation
Louis Reichardt,
director of neuroscience,
department of physiology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Preparing to Search for New Physics with the CMS ECAL
Marat Gataullin,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
8:00am
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Hyperbolic Dynamics and Properties of the Spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian
Anton Gorodetski,
postdoctoral scholar in mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Topic to be announced.
Lilia Anguelova,
reasearch associate in theoretical physics,
Queen Mary, University of London,
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
Monsoons as Eddy-Mediated Regime Transitions of a Hadley Cell
Simona Bordoni,
Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Attacking Complexity and Diversity in Chemistry through the Integration of Supramolecular Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Spin Chemistry
Nicholas J. Turro,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Intervention and Causal Inference in Rats
Aaron Blaisdell,
assistant professor of psychology,
Brain Research Institute,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics
Freiman's Theorem
Ben Green,
Herchel Smith Professor of Pure Mathematics,
University of Cambridge,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
MicroRNAs: From Scale Invariance to Stem Cells
Jonathan Miller,
assistant professor,
Human Genome Sequencing Center,
Baylor College of Medicine,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
From Molecular Networks to Multicellular Structures: Predicting Phenotype Diversity and Transitions
Anand R. Asthagiri,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Molecular Mechanisms of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Development: An RNAi-based Approach
Suzanne Paradis,
postdoctoral fellow,
departments of neurobiology and neurology,
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Molecular Mechanisms of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Development: An RNAi-based Approach
Suzanne Paradis,
departments of neurobiology and neurology,
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Myxobacteria Swarm and Build Multicellular Fruiting Bodies
Dale Kaiser,
professor of biochemistry and developmental biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Probing Chemical Reactions with Force, One Bond at a Time
Julio Fernandez,
professor of biological sciences,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Undergraduate Chemistry Lecture
Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
Peter G. Schultz,
The Scripps Research Institute,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Search for Earth-like Planets: Looking for Signs of Life
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Computational Protein Design Force Field Optimization: A Negative Design Approach
Oscar Alvizo,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Sumit Das,
department of physics and astronomy,
University of Kentucky,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurements of Electron Correlation Effects in Nanotubes and Nanowires
David Cobden,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Washington,