Institute Calendar
February 2011
Friday, February 4th, 2011
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhani Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:45pm
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4:45pm
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The AGN-Starburst Connection in Low Redshift Galaxy Clusters from Multiwavelength Data
David Atlee,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Microengineered Hydrogels for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
Ali Khademhosseini,
assistant professor,
Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
A Magnetic Analog of the Isotope Effect in Cuprates
Amit Keren,
professor of physics,
Technion, Israel,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Bioengineering Tools for Mapping and Mending Dysfunctional Brain Circuits
Viviana Gradinaru,
research associate,
CNC Center,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Follow the C: Development of Integrated "Omics" and Geochemical Methods for Carbon Cycle Analysis
Jillian Banfield,
professor,
Department of Earth & Planetary Science and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Catalysts Made of Earth-Abundant Elements—Making C-C and H-H Bonds
Xile Hu,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
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
The Mathematics of Crime Hotspots
Martin Short,
assistant adjunct professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Simplified Model for Same Sign Dilepton Signal and Related Phenomenology
Shufang Su,
University of Arizona,
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, February 8th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Controlling the Onset of Turbulence by Streamwise Traveling Waves
Rashad Moarref,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
The Complexity of Simple Programs
Damien Woods,
postdoctoral scholar in computing and mathematical sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optical Continuous-Variable Cluster States
Nicolas Menicucci,
postdoctoral researcher,
Perimeter Institute,
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
Topic to be announced.
Martha Haynes,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Carolyn Crow,
graduate student in Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Matching Through Position Auctions
Terence Johnson,
University of Maryland,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Stability of Absolutely Continuous Spectrum Under Decaying Perturbations: A Review of Recent Developments
Yoram Last,
professor of mathematics,
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography for Metallic Quantum Criticality
Sean Hartnoll,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Crowdsourcing Visual Expertise
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
On the Impact of Ocean Heat Transport in Warm and Cold Climates
Brian Rose,
postdoctoral fellow in atmospheric sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Integrating Surfaces with Organic Chemistry Applied to Dynamic Studies of Cell Behavior and the Development of Biomaterials for Cell Tissue Engineering
Muhammad N. Yousaf,
professor of chemistry,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Center for Genome Science,
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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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, February 10th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Solar Cell Primer: From the Sun to the Lab to the Market
Dan Turner-Evans,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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