Institute Calendar
October 2010
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
4:00pm
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8:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bogdanovski/Cobb Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Derohanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Madoyan/Meymarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Samvelian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nagapetyan/Antebelian 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: Derbedrossian/Berghoudian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 11th, 2010
9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution
Ji-hoon Kim,
Stanford University,
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
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Josh Tenebaum,
associate professor of cognitive science and computation,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Quantum Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Systems
Stefan Kehrein,
professor of theoretical physics,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Super-rotation of the Earth's Inner Core: A Geodynamic Perspective
Mathieu Dumberry,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Alberta, Edmonton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
A Nanoscience Approach to Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
Thomas E. Mallouk,
professor of materials chemistry and physics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Scheduling for the Tail: Robustness versus Optimality
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
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 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Some Applications of Distributed Estimation and Control
Raffaello D'Andrea,
Dynamic Systems and Control,
ETH Zurich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Faint Ly-alpha Emitters: Galaxy Building Blocks and the Engines of Reionization
Alan Dressler,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Deciphering Excitatory Synapse Development
Matthew Dalva,
assistant professor of neuroscience,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar—postponed
Wade Fisher,
assistant professor of high energy physics,
Michigan State University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
How Brains Think About Minds
Rebecca Saxe,
assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Spectrum of Skew-Shift Schrodinger Operators Contains Intervals
Helge Krueger,
Simons Foundation Fellow,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae
Lars Bildsten,
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Attributes (joint paper with Diego Klabjan and Asher Wolinsky)
Wojciech Olszewski,
professor of economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From Genes to Biogeochemical Cycles: A Marine Sulfur Cycle Case Study
Naomi Marcil Levine,
postdoctoral fellow organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Micromechanical Testing of MEMS Structures
Warren C. Oliver,
president of Nanomechanics, Inc.,
and adjunct professor,
University of Tennessee ,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microrheology of Fluid Interfaces: Visualization, Viscoelasticity, Yielding, and Slow Recovery of Phospholipid Monolayers
Todd Squires,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Theoretical Basis for Invigoration of Deep Convective Clouds Due to Increased Aerosol Concentrations; Investigating dissolved iron and particle interactions in seawater with laboratory experiments
Zach Lebo,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
Anna Beck,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Search for Complex Order Parameter Symmetry in Unconventional Superconductors
Dale Van Harlingen,
professor of physics,
Materials Research Laboratory and the NSF Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity,
University of Illinois,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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