Institute Calendar
October 2011
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
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Bray Theory Workshop
Effective Affirmative Action in School Choice
Isa E. Hafalir,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Organisation of Diverse Phytoplankton Communities in the Ocean
Mick Follows,
Senior Research Scientist,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "The Answer is Blowing in the Wind: A New Approach to Wind Energy"
JPL
John Dabiri,
Professor or Aeronautics and Bioengineering,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:20am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Atoms A Microscopic View on Artificial Quantum Matter
Markus Greiner,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Forcing Consent: Information and Power in Non-Democratic Elections
Arturas Rozenas,
Graduate Student,
Duke University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Towards non-classical mechanical states in an optomechanical whispering gallery mode resonator
Warwick Bowen,
Professor,
Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
From Concept to Orbit: Developing a Student Satellite Program at The University of Texas
Glenn Lightsey,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics ,
University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mo and W Alkylidene Species for Catalytic Enantio-, Z-, and E-Selective Olefin Metathesis Reactions
Smaranda Marinescu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Efficiency and Flexibility
Dejan Marković,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Income and Representation in the United States Congress
Christopher N. Tausanovitch,
Graduate Student,
Department of Poltical Science,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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4:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10/22
3:00am
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Humanities Conference
Reid's Account of Perception as a Two-Stage Process
Marina Folescu,
PhD Candidate,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Agakhanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kouyoumdjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalbandian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalchadjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:59pm
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Dr. Steven Pinker,
psychologist,
Harvard University,
Monday, October 24th, 2011
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Manipulation of light by strong interactions in nanostructures
Tal Ellenbogen,
Dr.,
Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-type Galaxies
Renbin Yan,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Mechanisms of Biological Dynamics Determined from Studies of Virus Particle Maturation
Jack Johnson,
Eldon R. Strahm Endowed Chair in Structural Virology,
Department of Molecular Biology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Transport through Andreev Bound States in a Superconductor-Quantum Dot-Graphene System
Nadya Mason,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing the body temperatures of dinosaurs
John M. Eiler,
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Professor of Geochemistry,
GPS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Upconversion Photochemistry: Sensitized Triplet Fusion
Felix N. Castellano,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry & Center for Photochemical Sciences,
Bowling Green State University,