Institute Calendar
January 2011
Monday, January 17th, 2011
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
10:00am
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5:00pm
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MLK Week Event: "I Have A Dream" Speech Screening
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Machine Learning Challenges in Ecological Science and Ecosystem Management
Thomas Dietterich,
professor and director of intelligent systems,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Oregon State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Probing Majorana Edge States With a Flux Qubit
Chang-Yu Hou,
Leiden University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Conformational Flexibility Leading to Activation of G-Protein Coupled Receptors: Its Relevance to Drug Design for Pancreatic Cancer
Nagarajan Vaidehi,
professor of immunology,
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Timothy Morton,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Search for New GeV-scale Forces
Rouven Essig,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
9:00am
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6:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Mechanics Applied to Earth and Environment: Selected Topics
James R. Rice,
professor of engineering sciences and geophysics,
Harvard University,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Remarkable Story of the Australian Plate: Climate and Geodynamics of the Continental Interior and Northern Plate Boundary in Timor Leste
Mark Quigley,
lecturer in geological sciences,
University of Canterbury,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
The ESA Herschel Space Observatory—Status and Highlights
Goran Pilbratt,
Herschel Project Scientist,
ESA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Asymptotic for the Quantum Euler Top
Alain Bourget,
assistant professor of mathematics,
Cal State Fullerton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using Triple O Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios for Estimating Primary Production under Non-steady Conditions in Marginal Ice Blooms in the Bering Sea
Masha Prokopenko,
assistant research professor of Earth science,
USC,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dissecting the Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Navigation in Virtual Reality
Christopher Harvey,
Institute for Integrative Genomics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Microscale Heat Transfer in Graphene and Nanostructured Thermoelectrics
Chris Dames,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Rational Choice Deferral
Ozgur Evren,
graduate student in economics,
New York University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:45pm
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8:45pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Chlorine Dilemma: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Patchy Micelles, Phase-Shifting Peptides and Nanolayer Assemblies for Tailored Delivery
Paula Hammond,
professor of chemical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines
Nergis Mavalvala,
professor of physics,
MIT,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
UAVSAR: An Airborne Window on Earth Surface Deformation
Scott Hensley,
assistant section manager,
Radar Science & Engineering,
JPL,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Counterterms in N=8 Supergravity
Michael Kiermaier,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bulk and Surface Modifications of WO3 for Photoelectrochemical O2 Evolution at pH=0
Qixi Mi,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Optogenetic fMRI: Genetically Targeted Brain Circuit Analysis and Debugging
Jin-hyung Lee,
assistant professor of electrical engineering, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and radiology,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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