Institute Calendar
March 2012
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
10:30am
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11:30am
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event
From Engineering Student to Silicon Valley CEO: My Journey
John Chen,
Chairman, CEO & President,
Sybase,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Nanostructured Silicon Thermoelectrics
Jen-Kan Yu,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Heath Group,
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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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
"The Science of Datacubes"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Discovery of the Fullerenes
David E. Manolopoulos,
Professor,
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology seminar
Conformational Spread: Theory and Experiment"
Dennis Bray,
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call To Public Service
Ernesto Dal Bo,
Associate Professor,
Haas Business and Public Policy Group,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:15pm
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7:15pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 7th, 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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
Andreas Burkert,
LMU Munich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Evolution of Theory of Mind
Arthur Robson,
Professor of Economics,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature
Zhaohua Wu,
Assistant Professor,
Meterology,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Enriched and high-order finite elements for large, accurate ab initio electronic structure calculations
J. E. Pask,
Condensed Matter and Materials Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Working at a Liberal Arts College: Getting in and Getting the Most Out of the Experience
Working at a Liberal Arts College: Getting in and Getting the Most Out of the Experience
Carmel Levitan,
Professor,
Cognitive Science,
Occidental College,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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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Thesis Seminar
The Quantum Electron Dynamics of Materials Subjected to Extreme Environments
Patrick Theofanis,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Goddard Group,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
Dan Dwyer,
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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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Diffusion Models for Two-Choice Tasks with Applications to Aging and Speed-of-Processing
Roger Ratcliff,
Cognitive Program Lab,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
On de novo Purine Biosynthesis: The Purinosome
Stephen Benkovic,
Evan Pugh professor of chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Retrofitting membranes: wrapping up where nature left off
T. Kyle Vanderlick,
Professor,
Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cyber-Enabled Investigations of Turbulence: Flow Physics and Petascale Algorithms
Pui-Kuen Yeung,
Professor,
Schools of Aeropace Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Concepts of Completeness in Einsteins Critique of Quantum Mechanics
Don Howard,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Tight p-fusion frames for signal decomposition
Martin Ehler,
German Research Center for Environmental Health,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Progress with Our Understanding of Rayleigh‐Taylor Driven Mixing
Malcolm Andrews,
XCP‐4 Group Leader,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,