Institute Calendar
October 2008
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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10:45pm
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
8:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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 Demographics of Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing
Scott Gaudi,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Nipah: A New Virus in Malaysia and Some More Recent Updates on Worldwide Activity
Thomas Ksiazek,
special pathogens branch,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State, ETA_B(1S), in the Decay Y(3S) --> Gamma ETA_B
Veronique Ziegler,
research scientist in physics,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Arming, Negotiating and Fighting
Adam Meirowitz,
associate professor of politics,
Princeton University,
6:45pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Session I
Benzothiadiazine Hepatitis C NS5B Polymerase Inhibitors
Keith F. McDaniel,
Department of Infectious Disease Research,
Abbott Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Session II
Ring-Forming Strategies in Asymmetric Catalysis
Tomislav Rovis,
associate professor of chemistry,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reconstructing Climate Deep in Earth history
John Eiler,
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and professor of geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Wason Task and the Paradox of Confirmation
Branden Fitelson,
associate professor of philosophy,
UC Berkeley,
6:00pm
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
A History of Water Use in the West: Lessons from Cadillac Desert
Ashley Jones,
Ph.D. Candidate,
ESE,
Caltech,
9:00am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Glacial Erosion Potential across the Himalaya and Karakorum—Insights from Remotely Sensed Glacier Velocities
Dirk Scherler,
graduate student in geosciences,
University of Potsdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Nanosystems and Complexity: From 'Craft' to Technology—to New Frontiers
Michael Roukes,
professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering, and codirector,
Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Mars Science Laboratory
Richard Cook,
project manager,
Mars Science Laboratory,
JPL,
9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics
Don Marolf,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
TeV Scale Physics from G2 Compactifications of M-Theory
Konstantin Bobkov,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revisiting Adiabatic Shear Failure
Daniel Rittel,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,