Institute Calendar
October 2010
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
JWST: Not Just a High Redshift Machine!
Marcia Rieke,
professor of astronomy,
University of Arizona,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch (Special Day/Location for This Week Only)
An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness
Mung Chiang,
associate professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Ground State Alternative for Schrodinger Operators
Kyril Tintarev,
professor of mathematics,
Uppsala University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
CRTS: An Open Optical Transient Survey
Andrew Drake,
computational scientist,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Reason-Based Choice: A Bargaining Rationale for the Attraction and Compromise Effects
Kfir Eliaz,
associate professor of economics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Can Random Access Be Optimal?
Mung Chiang,
professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rainfall Patterns and Catchment Response during Extreme Flash Flood Events over the Dry Climate Regions of the Southeastern Mediterranean
Efrat Morin,
senior lecturer in geography,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis of N-Heterocycles from Azides. Relationship between Mechanism and Metal
Tom G. Driver,
professor of chemistry,
The University of Illinois at Chicago,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Neural Implementation of Foraging Decisions in Macaca Mulata
Benjamin Hayden,
postdoctoral fellow,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
From Molecules to Nanocrystals: A Tale of Two Phase Transitions
Barbara Wyslouzil,
professor of chemical engineering,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Power Laws in Biology: A Tool for the Earth Sciences
Chris Kempes,
graduate student,
Deptartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Extraordinary Advances on Photoemission Experiments
Zhi-Xun Shen,
professor of physics, applied physics, and SSRL,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10/8
12:00am
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
12:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Tree Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor Formalism
Oliver Schlotterer,
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich,
11:00am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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9:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Silicon and Oxygen Abundances in Planet-host stars
Erik Brugamyer,
UTexas,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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SISL Postdoc/GRA Seminar
Solving for Engineering Constraints in Product and Market Designs
Stephen Cunningham,
OpenX,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Micromechanics of Polycrystals: Full-Field Computations and Second-order Homogenization Approaches
Ricardo A. Lebensohn,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sarkissian/Khodabakshian 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
Creating and Destroying Inorganic Mesostructures with Light
Bryce Sadtler,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hougannisyan/Davtyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Does Kant have a Pre-Newtonian Conception of Force?: How the Balance Argument Works
Sheldon Smith,
associate professor of philosophy,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
From Past Time to Prime Time—Leveraging Social Networks for Commercial Value
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Mena-Carta Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Garcia Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Asadoorian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Adamyan Wedding 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: Mendelyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Soro Sepanian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Soro Sepanian Wedding Party
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