Institute Calendar
March 2009
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
2:00pm
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
8:00am
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3/18
5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Do We Perceive or Infer the Time When We Decided to Act?
William P. Banks,
professor of psychology,
California State Polytechnic University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Design of Nonlinear Optical Materials and a Few other Random Thoughts
Seth R. Marder,
professor of chemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Consumption, Social Capital, and the Industrious Revolution in Early Modern Germany
Sheilagh Ogilvie,
professor of economic history,
Cambridge University,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMA Presents "Bootleg Postcards: Unofficial Biographies of Robotic Spacecraft"
Doug Ellison,
creator and site administrator,
Unmannedspaceflight.com,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Turbulent Friction on Rough and Smooth Walls: It Is All in the Spectrum (Even in 2D)
Pinaki Chakraborty,
professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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
Large Scale Structure in Galaxies and Dark Matter in COSMOS
Nick Scoville,
Moseley Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar: "Smallpox: Death of a DiseaseA Premature Announcement?"
Smallpox: Death of a Disease—A Premature Announcement?
Donald Henderson,
Center for Biosecurity,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Measuring Theta_13 with Neutrino Beams
Kate Scholberg,
associate professor of physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Adventures in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Nitrogenation of Hydrocarbons
Kenneth M. Nicholas,
research professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Oklahoma,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
8:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Stellar Remnants as Astrophysical Probes
Jason Kalirai,
astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
An Avalanche of Help: Analyzing Cooperative Broadcast Schemes in the Limit
Anna Scaglione,
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Small RNA Pathways in the Germine
Alexei Aravin,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Personalized Energy: A Carbon-Neutral Energy Supply for 1 (x6 Billion)
Daniel G. Nocera,
professor of energy,
MIT,
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
8:00am
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3/29
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Partial Penetrance Facilitates the Evolution of Discrete Morphological Changes
Avigdor Eldar,
postdoctoral scholar in biology,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Chemical Approaches to Biofuels
Ronald T. Raines,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
On the Route to Mechanistic Understanding of How Targeted Nanoparticles Target Cancer Cells
Chung Hang Jonathan Choi,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ecosystem-Scale Effects of Aragonite Saturation, Temperature, and Nutrients on Coral-Reef Calcification
Jack Silverman,
postdoctoral scholar in global ecology,
Carnegie Institute,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
Dan M. Goebel,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
Friday, March 20th, 2009
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
Gene Circuit Dynamics
Elowitz Michael,
Bren Scholar and assistant professor of biology and applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Large Scale Radiating Integrated Circuits
Aydin Babakhani,
postdoctoral scholar electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Understanding π Bonding Influences on Pincer Ligand Geometry in Tantalum bis(phenolate) Complexes
Ian Tonks,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
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)
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
Dan M. Goebel,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
10:30am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Comas/Allison Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
6:00am
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11:00pm
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Observing with Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics
Christopher M. Baranec,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Nature, Nurture, or Just Blind Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences
Alexander Van Oudenaarden,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Oscillations as Instruments of Sensory Selection
Charles Schroeder,
professor of psychiatry,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,