Institute Calendar
February 2012
Friday, February 10th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
OPE of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators
Natalia Saulina,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Observing Ways Nature Overcame Elemental Austerity
Kyle M. Lancaster,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis with Ruthenium Catalysts
Keith Keitz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Malkchyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boghos 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: Sarkisyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Krikorian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith
Dr. Andy Thomson,
staff psychiatrist,
University of Virginia,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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2/17
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Functional integration of large ncRNAs in the molecular circuitry controlling cell state
Mitchell Guttman,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Evolutionary Principles of Protein Structure and Function
Rama Ranganathan,
Professor of Systems Biology,
Department of Pharmacology,
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Some Recent Results
Gerhard Erker,
Professor,
Organic Chemical Institute,
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Environments of Human Evolution: The Isotope Evidence
Thure E. Cerling,
Distinguished Professor,
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and Dept. of Biology,
University of Utah,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Strategies for Solving Complex Problems in Chemical, Materials, Biological, and Physical Sciences
William A. Goddard,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor,
Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
7:30am
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8:30am
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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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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Random Matrices and Dyson Brownian Motion
Horng-Tzer Yau,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Who, Where and When - Targeting for Display Advertising
Vanja Josifovski,
Yahoo! Research,
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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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
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
Fernando Pastawski,
Max-Planck 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
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Channel Coding in Wireless
Martin Bossert,
Channel Coding in Wireless,
Communications Engineering,
University of Ulm, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
A Complementary Pivot Algorithm for Market Equilibrium under Separable, Piecewise-Linear Concave Utilities
Vijay Vazirani,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Two new approaches to the Early Mars climate problem
Edwin Kite,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Catalytic conversion of hemi-cellulose and cellulose to fuels and chemicals (technical lecture)
James A. Dumesic,
Steenbock Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
10:00am
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11:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Anxiety and Health in the Fourteenth Century: A Doctor Explores the Healing Power of a Holy Womans Voice
Nicole A. Archambeau,
ACLS Postdoctoral Instructor in History,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Heat Kernel Bounds for Schrodinger Operators on Bounded Lipschitz Domains With Robin-type Boundary Conditions
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories
Vasliy Pestun,
Institute for Advanced Study,