Institute Calendar
March 2005
Sunday, March 6th, 2005
8:00am
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5:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
Dr. Elizabeth Barber,
professor of linguistics and archaeology,
Occidental College,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Exploring the Protein Funnel Energy Landscape for Folding and Function
Jose Nelson Onuchic,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments
Steven D'Hondt,
Professor of Oceanography,
University of Rhode Island,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Simple Atoms and the Determination of Fundamental Constants
Andrzej Czarnecki,
University of Alberta,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
On the Regularity Conditions for the Navier-Stokes and the Related Equations.
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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11:59pm
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
8:30am
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12:30pm
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8:30am
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12:30pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Applications of Quantum Information to Theories of Unconventional Antiferromagnets and Superconductors
Joel Moore,
Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Quantum-Nondemolition GW Detectors: The Future of LIGO
Yanbei Chen,
Prof.,
Albert Einstein Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Stochastic Chemistry: Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Living Systems and Cellular Signal Transduction
Hong Qian,
Associate Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Beyond the Double Helix: Writing and Reading the 'Histone Code'
David Allis,
Professor,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Matter, Antimatter, and the Dark Sector
Justin Albert,
PDS,
High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
8:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Asymmetric Synthesis: From Transition Metals to Organocatalysis
Pavel Kocovsky,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Glasgow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Information Science and Technology Seminar
Metric Geometry and Computer Science
James Lee,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
8:00am
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3/13
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Rheology and Microrheology of Composite Actin Networks
David A. Weitz,
Professor,
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Einstein's Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaotic Motion
A. Douglas Stone,
Professor of Applied Physics and Physics,
Department of Applied Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Predicting the 'Unpredictable'
Rakesh Vohra,
Professor of Decision Sciences, MEDS,
Northwestern University,
5:00pm
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5:15pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Bubbling Supergravity Solutions and Reductions on S^n × S^n
James Liu,
Michigan,
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Selectivity Trends in C-H Bond Activation of Alkyl-Substituted Benzenes by Cationic Pt(II) Complexes
Tom Driver,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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