Institute Calendar
April 2009
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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Astronomy Colloquium
Modeling the Origins of the Hubble Sequence
Andrew Benson,
senior research fellow in theoretical cosmology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Sergey Nizkorodov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Structure-Based Design of Nonpeptidic Enzyme Inhibitors: A Powerful Tool in a Multi-Dimensional Approach Towards Molecular Recognition
Francois Diederich,
professor of organic chemistry,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Grain Boundaries in Solid Electrolytes: A Short-circuit or an Open-circuit?
Sangtae Kim,
associate professor,
chemical engineering and materials science,
UC Davis,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Potential of Fission and Fusion for Meeting Energy Demands
Paul Bellan,
professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Glass Cages for Catching Light
Philip Russell,
director,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
4:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Aversive Processing in the Human Striatum
Mauricio Delgado,
assistant professor of psychology,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Partial Melting, Metamorphism, and Deformation in a Collapsed Orogenic Plateau
Stacia Gordon,
postdoctoral scholar in Earth sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Alkene Metathesis in Metal Coordination Spheres: The Quest for Molecular Gyroscopes
John Gladysz,
professor of chemistry,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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MD/PhD Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Kathrin Plath,
department of biological chemistry, Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity
Zvi Bern,
professor of physics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Rainbows, Red Sunsets, and Rocket Science Revisited
David J. Diner,
MISR principal investigator,
JPL,
Friday, April 17th, 2009
8:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Non-relativistic M2-brane Gauge Theory
Yu Nakayama,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC Berkeley,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
A Multiple C-H Activation Approach to Iridium-Catalyzed Oxidations
Matt Whited,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalytic Organometallic Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation
John F. Hartwig,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Physics of Aero-Optical Effects
Stanislav Gordeyev,
research assistant professor,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar—cancelled
Gretchen Keller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:40pm
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7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Rainbows, Red Sunsets, and Rocket Science Revisited
David J. Diner,
MISR principal investigator,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
9:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Angling for Control in the Sea of Social Networks: The Future of Venturing in the Community Internet
Gordon Gould,
cofounder and executive chairman,
ThisNext,
11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tadevosyan/Lelikian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
10:00am
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
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Bioengineering Seminar
Noise, Memory and Communication in Natural and Engineered Bacteria
Adam P. Arkin,
professor of bioengineering, UC Berkeley,
and faculty scientist in physical biosciences,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
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Biophysics Lecture
Collapse Mechanism of Lung Surfactant
Ka Yee Lee,
professor of chemistry,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics
Feedback Regulation and Dosage Compensation in Gene Networks
Murat Acar,
Postdoctoral scholar in Biology,
Biology Department,
Caltech,