Institute Calendar
January 2009
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Long-Wavelength Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies
Andrew Baker,
assistant professor of astrophysics,
Rutgers University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Geologic Setting and Surface Properties of the Mars Phoenix Landing Site
Raymond Arvidson,
professor of earth and planetary sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Isotope Analysis: It is All Done with Smoke and Mirrors
Richard N. Zare,
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Imaging Single Events in Biology: Exocytosis to the Assembly of HIV
Sanford Simon,
professor of cellular biophysics,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Standard Model Higgs in the Two Photon Channel at CMS
Yousi Ma,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Dynamical System Identification: A Convex Optimization Perspective
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Eighth Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov,
professor of mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov,
professor of mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
7:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Random Normal Matrices
Nikolai Makarov,
professor of mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Joanna Dunkley,
faculty member in astrophysics,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Shape of Things to Come: The Potential and the Potential Limits of Global Climate Predictions
Gerard Roe,
associate professor of Earth and space sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Atomic Vibrations in Metal Nanostructures
Beatriz Roldan Cuenya,
professor of physics,
University of Central Florida,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Eighth Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
Andrei Okounkov,
professor of mathematics,
Princeton University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environment and Society: Xinjiang and China
Ted Crovello,
environmental biologist,
9:30am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Conductivity Relaxation Patterns of Mixed Conductor Oxides Under a Chemical Potential Gradient
Han-Ill Yoo,
professor of mathematics,
department of materials science and engineering,
Seoul National University, Korea ,
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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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Structure and Dynamics of Confined Fluids
Thomas Truskett,
associate professor of chemical engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
Minimal Electroweak Scale Cosmology at the LHC
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
professor of physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Synthesis and Structural Studies of Cyclic Py-Im Polyamides
David Chenoweth,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Building the Gatekeeper of the Innermost Sanctuary of the Cell Piece by Piece
André Hoelz,
research associate,
the Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Describing New Minerals: Trials, Tribulations and Rewards
Tony Kampf,
Curator,
Mineral Sciences,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interface Mediated Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Flows
Sandra Troian,
professor of applied physics, aeronautics, and mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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Jim Fruchterman: Raising the Floor: Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Simplifying and Extending the AdS_5xS^5 Pure Spinor Formalism
Nathan Berkovits,
Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo, Brazil,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurement of Dispersive Coupling between a Nanoresonator and Cooper-Pair Box Qubit
Matt LaHaye,
postdoctoral scholar,
Center for Physics of Information,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Women's Center Lecture
Convicted Survivors: The Imprisonment of Battered Women Who Kill
Elizabeth Leonard,
professor of sociology,
Vanguard University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flow-Induced Vibrations of Long Flexible Circular Cylinders in Single and Tandem Configurations
Francisco Huera-Huarte,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV),
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA Mismatch Recognition by Transition Metal Complexes
Hang Song,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Supersymmetric Electroweak Baryogenesis and Electric Dipole Moments
Yingchuan Li,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,