Institute Calendar
December 2008
Friday, December 5th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Forays Into the Total Synthesis of Zoanthenol: Intriguing Patterns of Reactivity and Selectivity
Jennifer Stockdill,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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9:00am
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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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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Siraki Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:30pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New High-Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar
Sasha Hinkley,
graduate student in astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
What Can We Learn About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?
Jack W. Szostak,
professor of genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
9:30am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Mohammad Amin,
visiting scholar,
Institute for Quantum Information,
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
Galaxy Evolution over the Last Two-Thirds of Cosmic Time
Sandra Faber,
professor of astronomy and astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics
Szabolcs Marka,
assistant professor of physics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Nicotinic Control of Glutamate Synapse Formation
Darwin Berg,
professor of biology,
UC San Diego,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
8:00am
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12/12
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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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena
Michael Mulligan,
graduate student in physics,
Stanford University,
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
In Vivo Incorporation of Multiple Unnatural Amino Acids
Erik Rodriguez,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structure and Inhibition of Enzymes that Assemble Lipopolysaccharide Endotoxins: Potent Bacterial Activators of Innate Immunity
Christian Raetz,
professor of biochemistry,
Duke University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Experimental Evidence for Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes Without UV-Photolysis (or Glow Discharge)
Pierre Cartigny,
professor,
Laboratory of Stable Isotope Geochemistry,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
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
Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe
Friday, December 12th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass
Andrew Waldron,
professor of mathematics,
UC Davis,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Mohamed Mostagir,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Engineering Cyanovirin-N for Enhanced Viral Neutralization
Jennifer Keeffe,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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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)
Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
8:00am
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Essavi Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Black Holes Sing: Black Holes, Their Orbits and Gravitational Waves
Dr. Janna Levin,
theoretical physicist,
Barnard College of Columbia University,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
6:00am
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11:00pm
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