Institute Calendar
February 2010
Friday, February 5th, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Expanding the Synthetic Versatility of Functionalized Si Surfaces with Low Defect Densities for Solar Applications
Leslie O'Leary,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Solar Decathlon: HVAC and Water Heating
Michael Pauken,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Digital Media Content and Distribution: Growing Greenbacks in a Converging Ecosystem
Albert Cheng,
executive vice president,
Digital Media,
Disney-ABC Television Group,
9:30am
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2/7
6:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Biology without Bias: New Tools for Probing Biological Systems
Jonathan Weissman,
professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology,
UC San Francisco,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Wireless Network Coding Algorithms
Christina Fragouli,
assistant professor of computer science and communications,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Rotational Stability of Earth and Mars
Isamu Matsuyama,
research fellow in Earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Development of Caged-Complexes for Studying Zn2+ Signaling & Homeostasis
Shawn Burdette,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Connecticut,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Self's Silent Partners: American Publishing and the Invention of Autobiography
Christopher Hunter,
instructor,
Lehigh University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Disorder and Field Driven Superconductor Insulator Transition
Nandini Trivedi,
professor of physics,
Ohio State University,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Results from the Final Runs of the CDMS-II Experiment
David Moore,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Generating Branes and Hochschild Homology
Mohammed Abouzaid,
research fellow, Clay Mathematics institute,
and postdoctoral fellow,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Fermat's Last Theorem as a Visual Link from Superquadrics to String Theory
Andrew J. Hanson,
2010 Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Commercializing Technologies Developed at the Bench Top
Karen Wong,
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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 Formation and Gaseous Evolution of Massive Galaxies Back to <1 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Dominik Riechers,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dynamic of memory and non-memory reactivation in prefrontal cortex during slow-wave and REM sleep
Bruce McNaughton,
Department of Neurobiology,
CCBN, Canada,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
LRO Diviner Radiometer Observations of the Lunar Polar Regions
David Paige,
Professor of Earth and space sciences,
Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Incentive Compatible Market Design with an Application to Matching with Wages
Mehmet Bumin Yenmez,
graduate student in business,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Molecular Organometallic Catalysis on Surfaces
Bruce C. Gates,
professor of chemical engineering and materials science,
UC Davis,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
Symplectic Rigidity and Quantum-Classical Correspondence
Leonid Polterovich,
professor of mathematics,
Tel Aviv University, University of Chicago, MSRI,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Kristen Menou,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Nonlinear MIMO Transceiver Design and Matrix Decomposition
Yi Jiang,
senior system engineer,
Qualcomm, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Holocene Evolution of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation Phenomenon
Christopher Charles,
professor,
Geosciences Research Division,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,