Institute Calendar
April 2012
Friday, April 6th, 2012
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
12:00pm
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4/8
5:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
12:00pm
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4/9
2:00am
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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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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General Biology Seminar
Action potentials and myelination in activity-dependent plasticity and development.
Doug Fields,
Chief,
Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section,
NIH, NICHD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Merger-Induced Black Hole Accretion and Star Formation: Observations vs. Simulations
Hai Fu,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
The Synaptome Meets the Connectome: Fathoming the Deep Diversity of CNS Synapses
Stephen Smith,
Prof. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Control of Visual Spatial Attention by Prefrontal Cortex
Tirin Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology and HHMI,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Revisiting the history of the global carbon cycle
Daniel Schrag,
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Weak Bosons and the LHC
Harald Fritzsch,
Ludwig-Maximillians University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Super-resolution via sparse recovery: progress and challenges
Laurent Demanet,
Assistant Professor,
Applied Mathematics,
MIT,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
8:00am
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11:00am
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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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IST Lunch Bunch
Privacy and Utility in Data Sets
Felix Wu,
Assistant Professor of Law,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
Yeshiva University,
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
WISE
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"The cellular and molecular basis for planarian regeneration"
Peter Reddien,
Asso. Professor,
Biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Young Fluvial Valleys on Mars: Constraining the Water Source Using Quantitative Geomorphology
Reid Parsons,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Corannulene en Masse
Jay S. Siegel,
Professor,
Organic Chemistry Institute,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election-Year Economy
Gabriel Lenz,
Assistant Professor of Political Behavior, American Politics,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Electronic Structures and Reactivity Patterns of Dipalladium(II,II) Complexes
Alec Durrell,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray Group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
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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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
How will the Webb Space Telescope measure First Light Reionization, & Galaxy Assembly in the post WFC3 era?
Rogier Windhorst,
ASU,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Landing a Rover on Mars (do not try this at home)
Landing a Rover on Mars (do not try this at home)
Rob Manning,
Chief Engineer, Mars Science Laboratory,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars
Scott Ransom,
NRAO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Large-Market Rational Expectations Equibrium Model
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Sparse Recovery over Networks
Kevin Tang,
Sparse Recovery over Networks,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oil-Water Separations Research and Application to Oil Spill Cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico
Eric Hoek,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Plastic Island: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Lindsay Yee,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
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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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar - postponed
Trent Northen,
Staff Scientist,
Bioenergy/GTL & Structural Biology,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linde Institute Distinguished Seminar
Foundations of Economic Performance A Practitioners View
Gene Huang,
Chief Economist and Vice President,
FedEx,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unsaturated Soils and Geosynthetics - the Mysterious Response of the Covers at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Jorge Zornberg,
Professor,
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,