Institute Calendar
January 2013
Friday, January 11th, 2013
9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Sodium Absorption as a Tracer of Dust Extinction, and much more, using SDSS
Dovi Poznanski,
Tel Aviv University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
BPS spectrum, wall crossing and quantum dilogarithm identity
Dan Xie,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tidal disruption by spinning supermassive black holes
Mike Kesden,
Postdoc,
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics,
New York University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Cavitation in Rubber: An Elastic Instability or a Fracture Phenomenon?
Oscar Lopez-Pamies,
Assistant Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Employing Lanthanides and Actinides in the Construction of Single-Molecule Magnets
Dr. Jeffrey Rinehart,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Washington,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
12:00am
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1/13
12:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aghadjani Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
SLoWPoKES: A Cool Stars Resource for Constraining Binary Formation Theory and Testing Fundamental Properties
Saurav Dhital,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Molecular design - from proteins to networks, coupling computation and experiment
Tanja Kortemme,
Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
David Weinberg,
Prof.,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Lee E. Miller,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Neuroscience,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New views of the deep sea: surprises from genomes and insights for geochemistry
Gregory Dick,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Tools to Illuminate the Brain
Evan Miller,
Ph.D.,
University of California, San Diego,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Triangulation Problem from Computer Vision
Rekha Thomas,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
9:00am
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1/16
3:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
New Technology for 2D IR Spectroscopy and its Application to Protein Aggregation and Drug Binding
Martin Zanni,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Outer Membrane Biogenesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria
Thomas Silhavy,
Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor ,
Molecular Biology Department ,
Princeton University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
RASICAM: The Radiometric All-Sky Infrared CAMera at Cerro Tololo, Chile
Peter Lewis,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Three 2012 Transits of Venus: From Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn (Jay Pasachoff); Atmospheric Characterization of Extrasolar Planets in the Era of Kepler (Jean-Michel Désert)
Jay Pasachoff,
Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy,
Astronomy ,
Williams College, Massachusetts,
Jean-Michel Désert,
Sagan Fellow Astronomer,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
The Market for OTC Credit Derivatives (joint with Andy Atkeson and Andrea Eisfeldt)
Pierre-Olivier Weill,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Revolution, Evolution, and Rock 'n' Roll"
JPL
Henry Juszkiewicz,
Chairman and CEO,
Gibson Guitar Corporation,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
9:00am
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3:30pm
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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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Joint Chemical Physics / Biochemistry Seminar
"Computationally Driven Drug Discovery: Theory and Practice"
Richard A. Friesner,
Professor of Chemistry, Co-Founder Schrödinger LLC,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Julie McEnery,
GSFC/Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Contrasting Biophysical Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Niño
Michelle Gierach,
Scientist,
Oceans and Ice Group and PO.DAAC,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
A Conserved Neurochemical Circuit that Coordinates Mating Behavior
Jennifer Garrison,
Ph.D.,
The Rockefeller University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Estimating the Overall Response of Nonlinear Composites via Iterated Microgeometries
Martin Idiart,
Professor,
Department of Aeronautics,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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