Institute Calendar
May 2010
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5/4
5:00pm
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
12:30pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sinovec/Bond Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mayer Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
9:00am
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Simonian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Roger E. A. Farmer,
professor of economics,
UCLA,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Life in Extreme Environments: Lanthanide-Based Detection of Bacterial Spores and Other Sensor Design Pursuits
Morgan Cable,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Multiplicative Expansion of the Pool of Complex Molecules for Therapy in Human Disease by Adopting Convergence as a Strict Requirement in Synthetic Planning
Andrew G. Myers,
professor of chemistry,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
Linda Strubbe,
graduate student in astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Stem Cells for Cardiac Regeneration: From Concept, through Biology and Biophysics, to Clinical Trials
Eduardo Marban,
director of the Heart Institute,
Cedars Sinai Medical Center ,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Do Bedrock Rivers Record Climate Change?
Noah Finnegan,
assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Insights from Molecular Force Probes
Roman Boulatov,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Resonant Guided Wave Networks
Eyal Feigenbaum,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
InAs/Ga(In)Sb Superlattice Based Infrared Detectors
Arezou Khoshakhlagh,
microdevices engineer,
Infrared Photonics Group,
JPL,
4:10pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Measurement of the Electronic Compressibility of Bilayer Graphene
Erik Henriksen,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Philip Schuster,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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11:00pm
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5/4
1:00am
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
8:00am
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8:00pm
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9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Jure Leskovec,
assistant professor of computer science,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Structures, Energetics and Reactions of Hydrocarbons on Nickel
Jonathan Mueller,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Jeff Lichtman,
professor of molecular and cellular biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Secular Instability: Producing Hot Jupiters and Organizing Planetary Systems
Yanqin Wu,
assistant professor of theoretical astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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5/5
1:00am
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Inverse Resonance Problem for CMV Operators
Maxim Zinchenko,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Western Michigan University,
12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
CMOS Nanowire Biosensor Systems
Mark Reed,
professor of engineering and applied science,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exploring the Infrared Universe
Ned Wright,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Connecting Marine Trace Metal Biogeochemical Cycles with Their Corresponding Metalloenzymes in Phytoplankton
Mak Saito,
Associate Scientist,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Small RNAs: Mediators of Gene Regulation and Silencing
Dinshaw J. Patel,
professor of structural biology,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Block Copolymer Electrolytes for Fuel Cells and Batteries
Nitash P. Balsara,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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