Institute Calendar
February 2007
Monday, February 12th, 2007
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Capturing Human Variation on a Single Microarray: How a Young Company Meshed Business and Technology Skills to Succeed
David Barker,
vice president and chief scientific officer,
Illumina Inc,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Mechanoelectrical Transduction and Spontaneous Oscillations in Inner-Ear Hair Cells
Dolores Bozovic,
assistant professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
How Does Aqueous Manganous Ion Functionally Substitute for Superoxide Dismutase Enzymes In Vivo?
Joan Selverstone Valentine,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Univesity of California, Los Angeles,
4:15pm
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
An Imaging Survey of Late-type Galaxies: Local Bechnmarks of Galaxy Evolution
Violet Mager,
postdoctoral research associate,
publications and preprints,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Small Time: A Chip-Scale Atomic Clock
Kitching John,
physicist,
time and frequency division,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
A Bayesian Estimation of Confusion Noise in the LISA Data
Richard Umstaetter,
postdoctoral fellow,
astrophysics and space sciences,
JPL,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Spectroscopy of Molecules Without Structures: A High Resolution Viewpoint
Professor David Nesbitt,
department of chemistry and biochemistry, JILA/NIST,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Alphavirus Encephalitis: The Challenge of Controlling Virus Replication in the Nervous System
Diane Griffin,
professor and chair in molecular microbiology and immunology,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Electron Cloud at Fermilab and as a Limit to Particle Accelerator Performance
Robert Zwaska,
research scientist,
Fermilab,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
7:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the Edge Behavior of the Spectral Measure for Slowly Decaying Monotone Potentials
Yoram Last,
Hebrew University,
3:00pm
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Great Basin Hot Spring Cafe: Who's the Clientele and What's on the Menu?
Brian P. Hedlund,
assistant professor of microbiology,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Massive black holes from early times to the present
Marta Volonteri,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Agreement and Compositionality in Large Distributed Systems
Jason Hickey,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Computational Design of Contraindicated Multifunctional Materials; Combining Magnetism with Additional Functionalities
Nicola Spaldin,
professor,
materials department,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Intrinsic Isotopic Labeling for Resolution and Identification of Complex Organic Mixtures, from Petroleomics to Proteomics
Alan G. Marshall,
professor of chemistry,
Florida State University,
7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
8:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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Counseling Center Workshop: "Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder"
Ken Herman,
psychologist and director of the Counseling Center,
private practice,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Coupling Polymer Viscoelasticity to Liquid Crystalline Order: Self-Assembly and Relaxation Dynamics of Block Copolymers in a Nematic Solvent
Neal Scruggs,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Iron Isotope Proxy . . . Biosignature or a Tool without a Problem?
Silke Severmann,
postdoctoral scholar,
department of earth sciences,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing
Matthew P. A. Fisher,
professor of physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Causal Efficacy and the Curse of Dimensionality
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe,
visiting professor of economics, Caltech,
professor of economics,
University of Texas at Austin,
7:30pm
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
8:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Massive Gravitons
Ofer Aharony,
associate professor of particle physics,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Anyons in a Weakly Interacting System
Marcel Franz,
associate professor,
department of physics and astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Tohru Eguchi,
department of physics,
University of Tokyo,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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