Institute Calendar
April 2010
Monday, April 12th, 2010
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
9:00am
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3:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CPA Career Development Brown-Bag Seminar
Winnett Lounge
Is a Start-up Right for You? An Intro to Industry Science
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Simple Geometric Model for Elastic Deformations // A Verifying Compiler for DNA Chemical Reaction Networks
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing
Tom Stace,
postdoctoral research fellow,
University of Queensland,
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
Exploring the Time Domain with the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey
George Djorgovski,
professor of astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand
Jeremy Levy,
professor of physics,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
I. Ferromagnetism by Design: Understanding Bound Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots II. TDDFT Electronic Dynamics: Lifetimes of Excited States on Surfaces
Xiaosong Li,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Weber's Law Response in Wnt Signaling
Lea Goentoro,
postdoctoral fellow in systems biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters
Adam Showman,
associate professor, dynamics and evolution of planetary atmospheres,
University of Arizona,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Inelastic Dark Matter
Jay Wacker,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Marching to a Different Drummer
David Mumford,
professor emeritus,
Brown University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Best Rational Approximation of the Exponential Function on the Semiaxis and Saddle-Points for the Energy
Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein,
professor,
Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics,
Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
White Dwarf Binaries, Mergers, and Explosions
Marten van Kerkwijk,
professor of astronomy,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors
Roger Y. Tsien,
professor of chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Impact of Turbulence on the Intensity of Hurricanes in Numerical Models
Richard Rotunno,
senior scientist in mesoscale meteorology,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Bulk Viscosity of Suspensions
Manuj Swaroop,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:20pm
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Thesis Defense
Formate Dehydrogenase Genes Form Termite Gut Microbiota: Insights on the Ricrobial Ecology of Acetogenic Bacteria
Xinning Zhang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Mental State Reasoning for Estabishing Innocence and Guilt
Liane Young,
postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Analytical Development and Experimental Validation of a Structural-Fuse Bridge Pier Concept
Samer El Bahey,
graduate research assistant in physics,
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering,
University at Buffalo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Establishing Cellular Positional Information through Gradient Dynamics in the Developing Fruit Fly
Marcos Nahmad,
graduate student in control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ten Years in the Life of a Siliceous Stromatolite from a Yellowstone Hot Spring
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Metrology with Atomic Ensembles
Eugene Polzik,
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
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
Strings at the TeV Scale
Dieter Luest,
chair for mathematical physics, LMU-München,
and director,
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Predicting Instabilities in Granular Materials: From Granular Avalanches to Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction
Jose Andrade,
assistant professor of civil engineering,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium, Thesis Defense
Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow over a Sphere
Adam Norman,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arabyan/Zakarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Atikian/Arutyunyants Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Minasyan/Karapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Special Seminar on the 2010 Mw7.2 Sierra El Mayor Earthquake, Baja California
Egill Hauksson,
senior research associate in geophysics,
Caltech,