Institute Calendar
December 2005
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Approximation Algorithms for Confluent Flow
Robert Kleinberg,
Professor,
Computer Science,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Bis-amino Acids: A New Technology for Synthesizing Macromolecules with Designed Shapes
Christian E. Schafmeister,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Moral Hazard with Limited Liability
Jeroen Swinkels,
Professor of Economics ,
Washington University, St. Louis,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Spitzer Space Telescope: Exploring the Infrared Universe
Michael Werner,
project scientist,
Spitzer Space Telescope Project,
JPL,
Friday, December 9th, 2005
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A Bethe Ansatz for a Quantum, Conformal Supercoset Model
Nelia Mann,
UCSB,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Geometric Transitions on Non-Kähler Manifolds
Anke Knauf,
University of Maryland,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Fast and Slow Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis Defined by Investigating Membrane Curvature Generation and Sensing Mechanisms
Harvey McMahon,
Dr.,
Neurobiology Division,
MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bacterial Disease Detection with the Electronic Nose
Anna Folinsky,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The Spitzer Space Telescope: Exploring the Infrared Universe
Michael Werner,
project scientist,
Spitzer Space Telescope Project,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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12/10
2:00am
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10:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture - SPEAKER AND TOPIC CHANGED
Evolution: How We Know It Happened and Why It Matters
Dr. Donald Prothero,
professor of physical and historical geology, sedimentary geology, and paleontology,
Occidental College,
Monday, December 12th, 2005
7:00am
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10:00pm
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3:00pm
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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 - CANCELLED
Neurotransmitter Release
Thomas Sudhof,
Dr.,
Department of Molecular Genetics,
Center for Basic Neuroscience, HHMI, University of Texas,
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Wasting Away in Hidden Subgroup Ville
Dave Bacon,
Research Scientist,
Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Size Effects and Scaling in Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
Alan Needleman,
Professor,
Mechanics of Solids and Structures,
Brown University,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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CMA Presents "The Spitzer Space Telescope: Exploring the Veiled Poetry of the Sky"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
George Helou,
Executive Director,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Mitochondrial Paradigm for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer, and Aging: A Dawn for Evolutionary Medicine
Douglas Wallace,
Dr.,
Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics,
UC Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
10:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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1st Matrix Product States (MPS) Workshop
Numerical Renormalization Group Methods: New Perspectives from Entanglement Theory
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Sequence-Specific Recognition of Chromosomal DNA in Cells
David R. Corey,
Professor,
Department of Pharmacology,
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
8:00am
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12/18
12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/18
12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Physics and Chemistry of Silicon Surface Passivation
David J. Michalak,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric Reservoir Species
Juliane L. Fry,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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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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General Biology Seminar
Molecular and Cellular Circuits That Regulate Natural Olfactory Learning in C. Elegans
Yun Zhang,
Lab of Neural Circuits and Behavior,
Rockefeller University,