Institute Calendar
April 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Silent Earthquakes with Co-shocks and Aftershocks
Paul Segall,
professor of geophysics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Status of CMS Experiment at the LHC
Marat Gataullin,
assistant scientist,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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5:15pm
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6:15pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
6:00am
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11:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Characterizing α-Synuclein Membrane Bound Structure
Tsun Yin Lai,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Speed-Up via Quantum Sampling
Pawel Wocjan,
assistant professor in computer science,
University of Central Florida,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Real-time Chemical Analysis of Aerosols: An Approach to Identifying Organic Compounds
Denis Phares,
associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering,
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
The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments
Jacqueline van Gorkom,
professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Jean-Pierre Williams,
postdoctoral scholar in planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Gaseous Noncovalent Complexes and Clusters: A Bridge to Aqueous Solution
Evan R. Williams,
professor of chemistry and biophysics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Bayesian Statistics from Subjective Quantum Probabilities to Objective Data Analysis
Luc Demortier,
associate professor of experimental high energy physics,
the Rockerfeller University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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
Tunneling and Return to Equilibrium for Kramers-Fokker-Planck Type Operators
Michael Hitrik,
associate professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Frontiers of Aerosol Chemistry: Fundamental Studies of Chemical Reactions at Gas-Liquid Interfaces using Field Induced Droplet Ionization
Jesse L. Beauchamp,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Search for Earth-sized Planets around Other Stars
Gibor Basri,
professor of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Finding the Atomic Structure of Surfaces and Nanowires via Global Optimization Methods
Cristian Ciobanu,
assistant professor of engineering,
Colorado School of Mines,
6:15pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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