Institute Calendar
May 2010
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Primate Vocal Communication: Linking Signalers and Receivers Through Coupled Oscillations
Asif A. Ghazanfar,
associate professor,
Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Quaternary Shortening Rates across the Main Frontal Thrust Zone, Eastern Himalaya
Paul Burgess,
graduate student in Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Nano-Scaled Materials for the Synthesis of Fuels from Sunlight
Thomas F. Jaramillo,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Entropy in Quantum Information Theory and Condensed Matter Physics
Matthew Hastings,
senior research scientist,
Microsoft Research, Station Q, Santa Barbara ,
11:00pm
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5/7
1:00am
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Fermi Seas from Black Hole Ergospheres
Tom Hartman,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Chris Lynch,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Thermal Conductivity of MgSiO3 Perovskite and Heat Flow in the Earth's Mantle
Abby Kavner,
associate professor of Earth and space materials,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Metal Complexes with Enolatoimine Ligands for Controlled Olefin Polymerization
Sze-Man Yu,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Getting the Green for Your Green Technology: Financing Your GreenTech Venture
Marianne Wu,
partner,
Mohr Davidow Ventures,
10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Jensen Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chorbajian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Satelyan/Santuryan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkissiani Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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5/9
2:00am
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
9:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Understanding the Neural Networks of Attention: a New Global Player in Inferotemporal Cortex?
Winrich Freiwald,
assistant professor of neural systems,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radiation Damage in Minerals
Ekhard Salje,
professor of mineralogy and petrology,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Understanding Machine Tool Development in the United States: Uniting Economic and Business History
Ross Thomson,
associate professor of economics,
University of Vermont,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Bestest Little Higgs
Daniel Stolarski,
graduate student in physics,
UC Berkeley,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:45pm
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10:45pm
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Tuesday, May 11th, 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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IST Lunch Bunch
Future Innovations and What They Mean for Sustainable Cities
Paul Camuti,
president and chief executive officer,
Siemens Corporate Research,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Efficient Generation of Hyperpolarized Molecules Utilizing the Scalar Order of Parahydrogen
Valerie Norton,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor
Richard Harris,
senior experimental physicist,
D-Wave Systems,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chamber Studies and Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Arthur Chan,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
See event detail for location
Cauchy-Characteristic Waveform Extraction from Binary Black-Hole Inspiral and Merger Simulations
Christian Reisswig,
postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics,
Caltech,