Institute Calendar
April 2007
Friday, April 6th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Base Oxidation by Charge Transport in Mitochondrial DNA
Edward Merino,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Carlos Yaguna,
postdoctoral scholar,
department of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
High-Speed Data Communications in Modern VLSI Systems
Azita Emami-Neyestanak,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Columbia University,
6:00pm
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11:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
9:30am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: VanValin/Guyer Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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4/19
12:00pm
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Novel Biosynthetic Hydrogel Biomaterials Engineered for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration
Dror Seliktar,
department of biomedical engineering,
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Generation, Concentration, and Detection
Professor Albert Polman,
Center for Nanophotonics,
FOM-Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and University of Utrecht,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
I Can Name that Smell in 50 Voxels: Spatial Coding and Perceptual Decoding of Odor Quality in Human Olfactory Cortex
Jay Gottfried,
Cognitive Neurology and AlzheimerÂ’s Disease Center, and departments of neurology and psychology,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Sense of Taste in Drosophila
Kristin Scott,
department of molecular and cell biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Density Perturbations in Chain Inflation
Brock Tweedie,
graduate student in particle physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coupled Proton-Electron Transfer Reactions, with Metals and Without
James M. Mayer,
professor of chemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
The Energy Problem and What We Can Do about It
Steven Chu,
director,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamic Depletion of Vortex Stretching and Nonlinear Stability of 3-D Incompressible Flows
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Shock Load and Cavitation Reload Near Deformable Composites
Yin Lu (Julie) Young,
assistant professor of civil engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Structure, Dynamics, Symmetry, and Spectrum of the Benzene Dimer
Philip R. Bunker,
principal research officer in theory and computation,
Steacie Institute of Molecular Science, National Research Council of Canada,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Elliott Lipeles,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
UC San Diego,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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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, April 11th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Cocycle Superrigidity for Profinite Actions of Kazhdan Groups
Adrian Ioana,
graduate student in mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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Astronomy Colloquium
Star Formation in Extreme Environments
Daniela Calzetti,
assistant astronomer,
Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—CANCELLED
Yehuda Ben-Shahar,
University of Iowa College of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Stayin' Alive: How Bacteria Survive in Biofilm Communities
Tracy Teal,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
9:00am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Simulation of Large-Scale Excited Electron Dynamics
Julius Su,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Parietal-frontal Circuits for Decision Making
Richard Andersen,
James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Experience-Dependent Rewiring of Cortical Networks
Adrianna Maffei,
department of biology,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Wind Erosion in the Presence of Nonerodible Elements
Greg Okin,
coprincipal investigator,
department of geography,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Energy-Efficient Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Ultra-Wideband Radio
Brian Ginsburg,
graduate student,
department of electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Discovery Physics at the LHC
Maria Spiropulu,
experimental particle physicist,
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN),