Institute Calendar
February 2012
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Discovery and Preclinical Development of Cancer Therapeutic Enzymes and Antibodies
George Georgiou,
Prof. ,
Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Magnetotransport and Coulomb Drag in Graphene Bilayers
Emanuel Tutuc,
Asssistant Professor ,
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Unusual Reactivity of 2- and 3-Coordinate Nickel: Chemistry Outside the Square Plane
Gregory L. Hillhouse,
professor of chemistry,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on Deep Evolution
Norman Pace,
Distinguished Professor of MCD Biology,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
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
Compressive Sensing: Dynamics, Multichannel Sampling, and Parametric Estimation
Justin Romberg,
Associate Professor ,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
9:00am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
On Khovanov homology and the Fukaya categories of Hilbert schemes
Mohammed Abouzaid,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Smooth Direction Fields on Surfaces
Peter Schröder,
Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
The Structural Basis for Activation of Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductase
Amie Boal,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University,
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
Understanding RVB states with PEPS
David Perez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Mathematical Analysis,
Complutense University of Madrid,
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
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Jack Holt,
Research Scientist,
Institute for Geophysics,
Univ. of Texas-Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Protein folding, environmental stress, and the inheritance of new phenotypes
Daniel Jarosz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research,
MIT,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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
On the Size of the Nodal Sets of Solutions of Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
See event detail for location
Racial Gerrymandering in Texas: Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Controlling Light with Meta-Symmetries and Couplings
Boubacar Kante,
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center,
University of California Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Pairing of critical Fermi-surface states
Max Metlitski,
Dr.,
Kavli Institute for Theorethical Physics ,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
7:30am
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations
Eric Kort,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies,
JPL/Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Single-walled aluminosilicate nanotubes: emerging materials for separations and renewable energy technology
Dun-Yen Kang,
PhD candidate,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
On the diversity equivalence theorem
Joseph Boutros,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Texas A&M University at Qatar,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Using High-Order CFD Methods to Predict and Understand Complex Unsteady Flows
Antony Jameson,
Thomas V. Jones Professor in the School of Engineering,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Black Holes Get Loud. And Bright.
Janna Levin,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Barnard College,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Hollywood's First Wave of "Holocaust" Films: From Frank Sinatra to Anne Frank
Lawrence Baron,
Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History,
Department of History,
San Diego State University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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