Institute Calendar
May 2010
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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Biochemistry Seminar
Developing General Methods for Solid-State NMR of Membrane Proteins
Rachel Martin,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
War, Gin and Governmentality: the British Experience, 1748–1754
Nicholas Rogers,
professor of history,
York University, Canada,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Apatite: Great mineral? Or the greatest mineral?
Jeremy Boyce,
visitor in geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Moore Distinguished Lecture
Energy Materials and Climate Change
Linda F. Nazar,
professor of chemistry and electrical engineering,
University of Waterloo, Canada,
Friday, May 21st, 2010
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage
Leslie Lamberson,
graduate student in aerospace,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Rock Damage, Earthquakes and Faults
Yehuda Ben-Zion,
professor of geophysics,
USC,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis and Reactivity of Trinuclear Copper Complexes
Emily Y. Tsui,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Weigle Lecture
Electron cryo-Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems
Wolfgang Baumeister,
Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry,
4:30pm
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
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Photography on Campus: Aramian/Sadjadi
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
10:30am
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Video Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni APPROVED
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Andreasian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Adventures Among the Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
Mark Moffett,
biologist and National Geographic photographer,
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
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Thesis Seminar
Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms: Polymerization, C-H Activation and Protonolysis of Bipyrimidine Platinum Methyl Complexes
Suzanne Golisz,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
On the X-ray variability of Type 1, radio-quiet Seyferts
Iosif Papadakis,
University of Crete,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neocortical Contributions to Individual Orienting Decisions in the Rat
Carlos Brody,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Main Group and Early Transition Metal Catalysts for the Asymmetric Hydroamination of Alkenes
Kai Carsten Hultzsch,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
4:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Using the Paleorecord to Say Something about Future Water Budgets in the American West
Wallace S. Broecker,
professor of geology,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University **Kliegel Lecture**,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spectral FFT-based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains
4:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LHC and CMS
Marat Gataullin,
assistant scientist in high energy physics,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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IST Lunch Bunch
Daniel Obenshain,
undergraduate student in computer science,
Caltech,
Evan Gawlik,
undergraduate student in computer science,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Pasadena Community College - APPROVED
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Memories Based on Solid State Atomic Ensembles
Hugues de Riedmatten,
senior researcher in physics,
University of Geneva,
3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Evolution of AGN in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies
Paul Martini,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Transients in the Local Universe
Mansi Kasliwal,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Immune Defense of the Intestinal Epithelial Surface
Lora Hoopes,
Center for Immunology and Microbiology,
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center,
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
A Discussion on the Arizona Immigration Law: 'Civil Rights and Politics: Arizona and Beyond'
Matt Gonzalez,
attorney,
Gonzalez & Leigh, LLP,
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Critical Lieb-Thirring Bounds in Gaps and the Generalized Nevai Conjecture for Finite Gap Jacobi Matrices