Institute Calendar
May 2007
Friday, May 11th, 2007
12:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Effects of Air Pollution on Children's Health
Laurine Tuleya,
South Coast Air Quality Management District Hearing Board,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Experiments on the Stability and Receptivity of a Compressible Boundary Layer
Garry Brown,
professor,
department of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electron Transfer and Protein Dynamics in Cytochrome c
John Magyar,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Neutrino Mass Implications for Beta Decay Parameters and Branching Ratio of pi -> nu nu-bar
Peng Wang,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics
Gowers Norms and Nilsequences
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 Search for Earth-like Planets: Looking for Signs of Life
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
The Dizzying Convergence of Electronic Devices and Services: What Are the Opportunities for Entrepreneurs?
Rajit Gadh,
professor,
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,
UCLA,
10:00am
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gao/Ko Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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3:30pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tsan/Quach Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davoodi/Sarkissian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 13th, 2007
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low-Energy Gauge Mediation from Metastable Vacua
Yuri Shirman,
assistant professor of physics and astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength
Sir John Pendry,
professor of physics,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Nuclear Power: A New Dawn
Ted Quinn,
retired president,
American Nuclear Society,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Robert Hooke in the Round: Ingenious Scientist, Newton's Nemesis, and a Most Disastrous Clerk
Lisa Jardine,
professor of renaissance studies,
Queen Mary University, London,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Cycles on Varieties over Subfields of C and Cubic Equivalence
James Lewis,
professor,
department of mathematical and statistical sciences,
University of Alberta,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Electromagnetic Integral Equations Requiring Small Numbers of GMRES Iterations
8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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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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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Engineering: A Neuronal Modeling Framework Based on Population Codes
Charles Anderson,
research professor of neurobiology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Finding Braids for Topological Quantum Computation
Nick Bonesteel,
professor of physics,
Florida State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
2-D Protein Crystallization Induced by Shearing Bulk Flow: What Can Classical Fluid Mechanics Tell Us?"
Amir Hirsa,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
An Engineering Approach to Cancer Therapy Using Systemically Delivered siRNA
Derek Bartlett,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
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 New Ultraviolet Perspective on Several Famous Stellar Prototypes
Mark Seibert,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Ordered Quantum and Dot Systems for Nano-Photonics Applications
Eli Kapon,
professor of physics,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Constraining Gravitational Waves with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Elena Pierpaoli,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding Folding, Assembly and Design Principles of RNA for Biomaterials Nano-Construction
Luc Jaeger,
assistant professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
"Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS"
Juan Pedro Ochoa,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics
Arithmetic Progressions
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
6:00am
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5/17
7:00pm
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