Institute Calendar
February 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits
Janna Levin,
professor of physics and astronomy,
Barnard College of Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Host/Pathogen Interactions in C. elegans
Emily Troemel,
assistant in molecular biology,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Goodness-of-fit—Pitfalls and Power
Frank Porter,
professor of physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
9:00am
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5:00pm
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Zeros of Heine-Stieltjes Polynomials and Critical Measures
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor of mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria,
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
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation
Brian Soden,
associate professor,
meteorology and physical ocianography,
The University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Sensing Nanomechanical Motion with a Resonant Microwave Interferometer
Konrad Lehnert,
associate fellow, JILA, and assistant professor of physics ,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey
Connie Rockosi,
assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
and assistant astronomer,
UCO/Lick Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Feedback and Modularity in Cell Cycle Control
Jan Skotheim,
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Drug Discovery at the Interface of Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering
Clay C. C. Wang,
assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry,
USC,
6:15pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Pasadena: Striving to Become a Sustainable Community
Mauricio Mejia,
sustainable programs manager,
department of water and power,
City of Pasadena,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Molecular Observatory Seminar
Production of Membrane Protein for Crystallization
Larry Miercke,
specialist in biochemistry,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Controls on Dissolved Iron Concentrations in the World Ocean: Recent Studies of Iron Speciation in Natural and Model Systems
Kristin Buck,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Noisy Dynamics of Cell-Fate Decision-Making
Michael Elowitz,
Bren Scholar and assistant professor of biology and applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Fall of the Roman Empire: Natural Scientific Approaches
Michael McCormick,
professor of medieval history,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
8:00am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Strong Coupling Expansion for N=4 SYM and Other Superconformal Field Theories
David Berenstein,
assistant professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Methodologies for the Rapid Synthesis of Hexoses and Their Application Towards a Differentially-Protected Chondroitin Sulfate Tetrasaccharide
Katie Rose Saliba,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
D-Branes in LG-Models and Mirror Symmetry
Dmitri Orlov,
Steklov Institute, Moscow,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics and Transport in Active Suspensions
Michael Shelley,
Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics,
the Courant Institute,
New York University,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Studies of Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution Using Transient Spectroscopy
Jillian Dempsey,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Three Applications of Means-Ends Epistemology
Oliver Schulte,
associate professor of computing science,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada,
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
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From?
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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