Institute Calendar
January 2014
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
11:15am
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12:15pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Spin Transport and Majorana Fermions: Exploiting Spin-Orbit Coupling in Semiconductor Nanowires and Topological Insulators
Vlad Pribiag,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience,
Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Saturday, January 4th, 2014
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hacoupian 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 6th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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A Mariner's Insights into Titan's Hydrology: Glassy Seas, Fish Finders, and Mystery Islands
Alexander G. Hayes,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy ,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dopamine, subjective value and decision making
Paul E. M. Phillips,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pharmacology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Observation of Floquet-Bloch States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator
Nuh Gedik,
Professor,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Junípero Serra and the Spanish Craze
Richard L. Kagan,
Professor Emeritus,
Department of History,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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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 Physics Seminar
Is the simplest chemical reaction really so simple?
Richard N. Zare,
Marguerite Wilbur Professor in Natural Science,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Generalization of the central models of molecular evolution in the genomic era
Eugene Koonin,
Senior Investigator,
National Center for Biotechnology Information,
NIH, Bethesda,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
TBD
Alexander Hayes,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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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
The evolution of obscured accretion probed by deep and hard X-ray surveys
Andrea Comastri,
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Imaging and Evolution Approaches to Probing the Chemistry of Living Systems
Bryan Dickinson,
Ph.D.,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Neuroscience Symposium
Emerging Neuroscience: a hiring symposium with future leaders in brain research
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity
Robert Schoelkopf,
Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Composable Mechanisms and Price of Anarchy in Auctions
Eva Tardos,
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science ,
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 10th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Geometry of Supersymmetric Partition Functions
Thomas Dumitrescu,
Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shearing Resistance of Elastomers at Extreme Loading Conditions
Rodney Clifton,
Professor of Engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Supramolecular Bioinorganic Chemistry
Akif Tezcan,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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1/12
12:00am
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12:00am
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1/12
12:00am
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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 13th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Physics seminar
Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4
Clifford Taubes,
Harvard,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Imaging Current in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators
Katja Nowack,
Postdoc,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Nucleosynthesis, Neff, and Neutrino Mass Implications from Dark Radiation
Evan Grohs,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Higher Alcohols
Matthew W. Kanan,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismic Constraints on the Structure and Deformation of Continental Lithosphere
Vedran Lekic,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Geology ,
University of Maryland ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Doing Good and Doing Evil: The Issue of Robustness
Philip Pettit,
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values,
Princeton University,