Institute Calendar
October 2012
Friday, October 19th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Fractional Matching Markets
Vikram Manjunath,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Universite de Montreal,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
An Experiment to Demonstrate an alpha-omega Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation
Stirling Colgate,
Los Alamos National Lab,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanisms of Oxygen Reduction Reactions Mediated by Rhodium and Iridium Hydride Complexes
Thomas Teets,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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5:20pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Giragus Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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10/20
3:00am
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Saturday, October 20th, 2012
8:30am
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9:30am
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9:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Arellanos Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tshagyaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sayadian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sayadian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vardanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vardanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 21st, 2012
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special High Energy Physics Seminar
Geometry as Graviton Bose-Einstein Condensate
Georgi Dvali,
CERN,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxy quenching and the remarkable stability of the velocity dispersion function since z~1.5
Rachel Bezanson,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Methodology for reconstructing wind direction, wind speed and duration of wind events from aeolian dune deposits
Gary Kocurek,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"The H-NOX Family of Heme Sensor Proteins: Discovery of a New Role for Nitric Oxide Signaling in Bacteria"
Elizabeth M. Boon,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Recent Advances in the Theory of Linear Programming
Jesús De Loera,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
8:00am
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6:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Quantum recursions and hyperideal polyhedra
Roland van der Veen,
TBA,
Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Crossing the Software Education Chasm using Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing
Armando Fox,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TED Talk Tuesdays
Tom Mannion,
Senior Director of Student Activities and Programs,
Campus Auxiliary Business Services,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Efficient distributed quantum computing
Steve Brierley,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Bristol,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Jeff Eldredge,
UCLA, "Improving vortex models via optimal control theory",
Indrat Aria,
"Impact behavior of water droplet on a superhydrophobic surface",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Exploring Interstellar Chemical Inventories Using cm-Wave Observations at the Green Bank Telescope (Brett McGuire), The Available Potential Energy of World Ocean (Zhan su)
Brett McGuire,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Zhan Su,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Biochemical pathways to cell death
Xiaodong Wang,
Director & Investigator,
National Institute of Biological Sciences,