Institute Calendar
October 2007
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
9:00am
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Engineering Approaches to Immunology and Immunotherapy: Using Materials to Prod and Probe the Immune System
Darrell J. Irvine,
associate professor of tissue engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Greg Berns,
associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Emory University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Neogene Magmatism and the Geodynamic Evolution of the Central Andean Puna Plateau
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay,
professor of geological sciences,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Back to the Future: The Lee-Wick Standard Model
Mark Wise,
McCone Professor of High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Acetyl CoA Synthase Paradigm for Hybrid Bio-Organometallics: NiN2S2 Complexes as Metalloligands
Marcetta Darensbourg,
professor of chemistry,
Texas A & M University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Mechanical Integration and Optimal Control of Constrained Multibody Dynamics
Sigrid Leyendecker,
postdoctoral ,
Aeronautics,
Caltech,
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 Redshift Evolution of Galactic Structures (Bars, Bulges, & Disks) at z<1 from COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence
Kartik Sheth,
research scientist,
IRS Instrument Team,
Spitzer Science Center, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity in the Modeling of Binary Black-Hole Coalescences
Alessandra Buonanno,
associate professor of physics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Penetration of Toxins and Viruses across the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane
Bill Tsai,
assistant professor of cell and developmental biology,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Enriched Xenon Observatory for Double Beta Decay
Andrea Pocar,
postdoctoral scholar in neutrino physics,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Extending N! to Functions on the Real and P-adic Numbers, and their Values at Rational Arguments
Benedict Gross,
Leverett Professor of Mathematics ,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Jacobi Matrices with Random Decaying Perturbations
Jonathan Breuer,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoc in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Biogeochemical Dynamics of the Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Lessons from Three Extreme Environments
Samantha B. Joye,
professor of marine sciences,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Megamasers, the Hubble Constant, and Dark Energy
Jim Braatz,
associate scientist,
Natoinal Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Two Concepts of Scientific Philosophy: Carnap and Reichenbach
Andre Carus,
affiliate lecturer,
University of Cambridge ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Direct Product Theorems for Communication Complexity via Sub-Distribution Bounds with Application to Communication-Entanglement Trade-Offs in Quantum Communication Protocols
Rahul Jain,
postdoctoral research fellow in computer science,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reprogramming Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA
Justin Gallivan,
assistant professor of biomolecular chemistry,
Emory University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Fast Food and Farm Policy
Dan Feldman,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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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
Micron-Scale Characterization of Sulfur Cycling in Microbial Mats: A Combined NanoSIMS and FISH Approach
David Fike,
O. K. Earl Postdoctoral Scholar in Geobiology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Jamming
Andrea Liu,
professor of condensed matter theory,
The University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Phenomenology of (Extra)Ordinary Gauge Mediation
David Shih,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: McLaughlin/Harden Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from M-Theory Fivebranes
Luca Mazzucato,
Tel-Aviv University,