Institute Calendar
October 2010
Friday, October 1st, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Black Hole/Qubit Correspondence
William Rubens,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Imperial College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Lecture: "Women's Citizenship Status 90 Years After Suffrage"
Women's Citizenship Status 90 Years After Suffrage: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Jean Schroedel,
professor in the Department of Politics and Policy, and dean of the School of Politics and Economics,
Claremont Graduate University,
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hovhanessian/Mirzaian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Anatol Roshko Lecture in Aerospace
Structure and the Vorticity in Turbulent Shear Flow
Garry Brown,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karapetian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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11:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: White/Kokomizo Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Tuning the Reactivity of Electron-Rich Transition Metal Centers by Lewis Acid Coordination
Marc-Etienne Moret,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Genetic History and Migrations in Western Eurasia 500-1000
Patrick Geary,
professor of history,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Rostamian/Melkonain Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
8:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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11:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Seki/Dalziel Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Sargsyan/Martrosyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Setyan 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: Vignau Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Basmajian/Zartarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sandoval Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zournachyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
10:30am
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7:00pm
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Video and Photography on Campus: Edmond Fereydooni (approved)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kitoyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Control & Dynamical Systems Seminar
Random Convex Programs
Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore,
assistant professor,
Politecnico di Torino,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Formation of Retrograde Planetary Orbits
Matthew Payne,
postdoctoral fellow in astronomy,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Hall Transitions in Trapped Cold Atom Systems
Kun Yang,
professor of physics,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geoengineering, Ocean Acidification, and the Energy-carbon-climate problem: Applying Geophysical Models to Address Policy-relevant Questions
Ken Caldeira,
senior scientist,
department of global ecology,
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sweeping Preconditioners for the Helmholtz Equation
Lexing Ying,
associated professor of mathematics,
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Public Lecture
Many Suns, Many Worlds: The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets
Eric Ford,
professor of astronomy,
University of Florida,
Jason Wright,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Pennsylvania State University,
Natalie Batalha,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
San Jose State University,
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
NASA and JPL,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:40pm
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10:40pm
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
9:00am
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains
Ronny Thomale,
postdoctoral scholar,
Princeton University,
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
The Quest for SFR Measurements from the UV to the Infrared
Daniela Calzetti,
University of Massachusetts,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark Brongersma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Genetic Conflict: The Usual Suspects and Beyond
Harmit Malik,
Division of Basic Sciences,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Electoral Competition and Constitutional Design
Marco Battaglini,
professor of economics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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