Institute Calendar
April 2006
Friday, April 7th, 2006
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
What Can Prehistoric Easter Island Teach Modern America about Sustainability?
Ashley Jones,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Descartes' Attempt (in the Regulae) to Base the Certainty of Algebra on Mental Vision
Hendrik Bos,
Professor of History of Mathematics, Utrecht University,
Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Development of Ru Catalysts for the Preparation of Hindered Olefins by Ring-Closing Metathesis
Katie Campbell,
postdoctoral scholar,
department of chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Power Supply Integrity: Integrated Circuit Design with Systems Techniques
Elad Alon,
doctoral candidate,
department of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Equidistribution, Groups, and Primes
Peter Sarnak,
professor of mathematics,
Princeton University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
9:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
10:30am
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Weather Makers: How Humans Are Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Dr. Tim Flannery,
environmental scientist, explorer, and conservationist,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:15pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
8:00am
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4/12
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Winnett Lounge
Biological Large-Scale Integration (BioLSI-2)
Michael Roukes,
professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering, and director,
Kavli Nanoscience Institute,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:55pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Special Seminar
Machine Learning Reductions
John Langford,
research assistant professor,
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical Modeling and Impedance Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Professor Wolfgang Bessler,
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing,
University of Heidelberg, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
The Quantum Internet: How Einstein's Objection to Quantum Mechanics Leads to a Whole New Field in Physics
James Chin-Wen Chou,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Stardust Mission —Analyzing Samples from the Edge of the Solar System
Don Brownlee,
professor of astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Baryon Number Violation and a Hidden Higgs
Professor David Kaplan,
department of physics and astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
What a Difference One Electron Makes: Synthetic Strategies to Achieve Low-Coordinate Early-Transition Metal Complexes Bearing Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds
Daniel J. Mindiola,
assistant professor of chemistry,
Indiana University,
4:15pm
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9:15pm
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11:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
8:00am
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12:30pm
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