Institute Calendar
February 2011
Monday, February 14th, 2011
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From CC Agostic Structures to CH Bond Activation
Michel Etienne,
professor of chemistry,
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels
Lexing Ying,
associate professor of mathematics and ICES,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physical Consequences of the QED Theta Angle
Stephen Hsu,
University of Oregon,
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 15th, 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
Novel Materials for Energy Conservation and CO2 Remediation Systems
Amin Salehi-Khojin,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical and biomolecular engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Living at the ‘Edge’ of the Smart Grid: Empowering Personal Energy Systems
Eve Schooler,
principal engineer,
Intel Research,
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
Quantifying the Relation Between Work and Information-recent Results Using the Smooth Entropy Approach
Oscar Dahlsten,
research fellow,
Centre for Quantum Technologies,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Enzymes, Equations, and Embryos
Yoosik Kim,
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecules in the Quantum Regime
Jun Ye,
professor of physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Rules of Meiotic Chromosome Fragmentation
Andreas Hochwagen,
Whitehead Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Jean-Luc Margot,
associate professor of Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 16th, 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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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Daniel Fabrycky,
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Bethe-Sommerfeld Conjecture for Periodic Operators
Leonid Parnovski,
professor of mathematics,
University College London,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Early Science from the Pan-STARRS PS1 Telescope
Nick Kaiser,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Direct CO2 Capture from Air Using Moisture Swing Absorption
Klaus Lackner,
professor of geophysics, Earth, and environmental engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience of Advanced Bulk Thermoelectrics
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,
professor of chemistry,
Northwestern 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, February 17th, 2011
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Expanding the Molecular Genetics Toolkit in Flies and Mice: Transgenesis and Mosaic Analysis
Bosiljak Tasic,
Department of Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Planning Science: Orchestrating Surface Operations for the Most Complicated Rover Yet
Kim Lichtenberg,
mission engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines
Nergis Mavalvala,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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2/19
7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
From Crust to Core, GRAIL Reveals the Lunar Interior
Sami Asmar,
GRAIL Deputy Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Exploring Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale in Thermoelectric Materials
Austin Minnich,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Jenn Wortman Vaughan,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Vibration Reduction for Turbomachinery Bladed Disks under Changing Excitation using Piezoelectric Materials
George A. Lesieutre,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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