Institute Calendar
May 2005
Thursday, May 5th, 2005
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Semana Latina Lecture
The Argentine Enigma: From Rags to Riches . . and Back to Rags
Jose Moya,
Professor,
Department of History,
UCLA,
Friday, May 6th, 2005
9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Recent Developments in AdS/CFT and Sasaki-Einstein Geometry
James Sparks,
Harvard,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The Quantum Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Superfluids
Subir Sachdev,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Developing Tripodal Carbene Chelators for Small Molecule Activation
Xile Hu,
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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8:00pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, May 7th, 2005
10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: GRANTHAM/LANE PARTY
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:25pm
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1:45pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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5/8
2:00am
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Sunday, May 8th, 2005
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
7:00am
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5/15
6:00pm
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Child Educational Center's Exciting and Educational Summer Program
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical Characterization and Charge Carrier Dyamics of Cyrstalline Silicon (III) Surfaces Modified with Surface-Bound Organic Functional Groups
Lauren Webb,
graduate student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
Mihai Stoiciu,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
An Asynchronous Circuit Model of the Lambda Virus
Chris F. Myers,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Utah,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
P450 BM3 Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis
Andrew K. Udit,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Lax Pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System via Othogonal Polynomials on the
Unit Circle
Irina Nenciu,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Biogeochemistry and Residual Mean Circulation of the Southern Ocean
Takamitsu Ito,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Nonperturbative Approach to SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Some of Its Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology
Ralf Hofmann,
Universitaet Heidelberg and Universitaet Frankfurt,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Raman Microscopy of Pigments: A Key Technique for the Scientific Investigation of Artwork
Robin J. H. Clark,
Professor,
Christopher Ingold Laboratories,
University College London,
9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
10:00am
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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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Chemical Physics Seminar
Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanofluidic Transistors
Peidong Yang,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Joint Biology/Beckman Institute Informal Seminar
Personal Genomics and Synthetic Biology
George Church,
Dr.,
Harvard University School of Medicine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bipartite Entanglement in the Stabilizer Formalism
David Fattal,
Department of Physics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
The Dynamics of Debris Flows and Avalanches
Richard Iverson,
Professor,
U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Wnt Signaling during Animal Development
Roel Nusse,
Professor,
HHMI, Department of Developmental Biology,
Stanford University Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Side-Effects of Campaign Finance Reform
Mattias Dahm,
Northwestern University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
10:00am
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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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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Space-Time Reed-Muller Codes for Noncoherent MIMO Transmission
Alexei Ashikhmin,
Bell Labs,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Analysis, Design, and Construction of Nucleic Acid Devices
Robert Dirks,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
On p-Adic Estimates of Weights in Abelian Codes over Galois Rings
Daniel Katz,
Mathematics,
Caltech,