Institute Calendar
April 2010
Monday, April 26th, 2010
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmic Anomalies: A Skeptical Evaluation
Edward L. Wright,
professor of astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Functional Conducting Metallopolymer Materials
Bradley Holliday,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Sense and Response Systems
K. Mani Chandy,
Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Numerical Algorithms for Simulating Interacting Fermionic Lattice Systems
Christina Kraus,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
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
Topic to be announced.
Hilke Schlichting,
postdoctoral fellow in theoretical astrophysics,
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60
Benjamin J. McCall,
assistant professor of chemistry and astronomy,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Cell Competition
Ruslan Medzhitov,
Department of Immunobiology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Convergence to SLE_6
Helen (Guo-Ying) Lei,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
How Enzymes Work
Daniel Herschlag,
professor of biochemistry,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Compound-Specific Amino Acid Fractionation Patterns: A New Approach to Tracing Organic Nitrogen Source and Transformation
Matthew McCarthy,
associate professor of ocean sciences,
UC Santa Cruz ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Solution-Processed Inorganic Photovoltaics from Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Matt Law,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
8:30am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Elucidating Membrane Protein Function through Long-Timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Ron Dror,
MSC, Chemistry,
D.E. Shaw Research,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
High-Temperature Transport in Lanthanum Telluride and Other Modern Thermoelectric Materials
Andrew May,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
CANCELED
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Dynamics of Decision Making: Optimality, Human Performance and the Competing Accumulator Model
James L. McClelland,
professor of psychology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Isotope Separation by Diffusion in Geological Liquids
James Watkins,
graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis
David A. Tirrell,
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and professor of chemistry and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Kuiper Belt, Zodiacal Dust, Debris Disks: It's All About Collisions
Marc Kuchner,
Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Friday, April 30th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Instanton Effects in F-theory
Ralph Blumenhagen,
Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Effects of In Situ Animal-fluid Interactions on Transport and Mixing
Kakani Young,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanian 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: Varoujan/Hormozi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Geological and Non-Geological Factors Contributing to Damage in Port-au-Prince during the 12 January 2010 M7.0 Haiti Earthquake
Susan Hough,
seismologist,
US Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Direct Simulation of Electron Transfer Dynamics
Artur R. Menzeleev,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Spin Transistor and Beyond
Supriyo Datta,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Purdue University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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