Institute Calendar
November 2007
Monday, November 12th, 2007
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
11:00am
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2:00pm
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CMA Presents "A VIP Tour of the Scientific Laboratories at the Getty Conservation Institute"
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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
The Quantum Phase Transition to Topological Order and Topological Entropy
Alioscia Hamma,
postdoctoral scholar in quantum information and quantum theory,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Silicone Carbide Hybrid Optical Sensor for Next Generation Greener Gas Turbines
Nabeel Riza,
professor of optics and electrical engineering,
University of Central Florida,
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 First Stars in the Universe: Birth, Death and Rebirth
Greg Bryan,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Integrated Computational Biology: From the Molecule to the Cell
J. Andrew McCammon,
professor of theoretical chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Evolution of Segmentation and Body Patterning
Nipam Patel,
professor of genetics and development and of integrative biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
8:00am
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4:00pm
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9:30am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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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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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
Chemistry and Phase Partitioning in Atmospheric Organic Aerosols: A Dynamic Interaction
Neil M. Donahue,
associate professor of chemical engineering and chemistry,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center
Warren Brown,
associate of the Harvard College Observatory,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Cascade Reactions in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis
Mohammad Movassaghi,
assistant professor of chemistry,
MIT,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Noise Effect on Humans and Animals
Man Nin Chan,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Bachelor of Science in Business Program
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Biology Lecture
Antibody Targeting—Nature's and Art's Gift
Andrew Raubitschek,
chair,
cancer immunotherapeutics and tumor immunology,
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Opportunity Costs and Response Rates: How Dopamine Helps Us Choose How Hard to Work
Yael Niv,
senior research assistant,
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microrheology of Responsive Hydrogel Networks
Eric M. Furst,
associate professor of chemical engineering,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Chlorine Isotope Geochemistry. Application to the Earth's Geodynamics: New Advances, Controversies and Future Directions
Magali Bonifacie,
postdoctoral scholar in geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Condensed Matter Physics with Cold Atomic Gases
Leo Radzihovsky,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Hidden Ocean of Europa: Beneath the Frozen Surface
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
8:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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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
Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT
Niklas Beisert,
Max-Planck Institut for Physics, Potsdam,
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
AdS Spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein Consistency
Oscar Varela,
academic visitor in theoretical physics,
Imperial College London,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Astroinformatics and Petascale Mining of Large Astronomy Sky Survey Databases
Kirk Borne,
department of computational and data sciences,
George Mason University,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Basics of a Pod-Based Methodology to Characterize the Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Large Structures
Ioannis Georgiou,
School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens,
3:00pm
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8:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Metal Iodide Catalyzed Conversion of Methanol to 2,2,3-Trimethylbutane (Triptane)
Nilay Hazari,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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