Institute Calendar
December 2006
Friday, December 8th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Probing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium at Far-IR and Submillmeter-Wavelengths
Christopher Walker,
associate professor and associate astronomer,
University of Arizona,
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)
MRO: Following the Water with New Capabilities
Jim Graf,
project manager,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
JPL,
Richard Zurek,
project scientist,
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
JPL,
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Krum Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
3:30pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
How Cells Sense and Respond to Force and Geometry through Substrate Priming of Oncogenes and Periodic Contractions
Michael Sheetz,
professor of biological sciences,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Network Coding—The Butterfly and Beyond
Debbie Leung,
assistant professor,
department of combinatorics and optimization,
University of Waterloo,
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
A Large Population of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters
Mark Brodwin,
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow and National Research Council Associate,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Detection and Processing of Color Information in Drosophila
Claude Desplan,
professor of biology,
New York University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
8:30am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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The Bristol-Myers Squibb Lectures in Organic Synthesis, Session I
Some Unusual Applications of Asymmetric Catalysis in Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry
William A. Nugent,
Dr.,
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Bristol-Myers Squibb Lectures in Organic Synthesis, Session II
Crafting Chiral Space for Asymmetric Induction in a Catalytic Synthetic Reaction: The Nucleophile
Barry M. Trost,
professor of chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
7:00am
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10:00pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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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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Friday, December 15th, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Structure, Symmetry, and Stability of Two-Dimensional Crystals
Katherine Plass,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chen Party for Heng's wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Elucidating the Gating Mechanism of Ion Channels Using Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagensis
Lori Wai Hang Lee,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Positive and Negative Regulators of Synapse Formation in C. Elegans
Kang Shen,
assistant professor of biological sciences,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Jonathan Fielding,
Los Angeles Department of Public Health and UCLA School of Public Health,
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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