Institute Calendar
October 2007
Friday, October 12th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition
Steven P. Schneider,
professor in aeronautics and atronautics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Towards Surface Patterning Using Physiosorbed Monolayer Masks
Kimberly Papadantonakis,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Multiscale Magnetic Resonance Imaging: New Tools for Identifying Connectivity in the Mammalian Brain
J. Michael Tyszka,
Director, Magnetic Resonance Physics,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Diaz/Gonzalez Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Probing Cosmology with X-ray Galaxy Clusters
David Rapetti,
experimental research associate,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and KIPAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Mapping the Microcircuitry of Attention: Attentional Modulation Varies across Cell Classes in Visual Area V4
John Reynolds,
Systems Neurobiology Laboratory,
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
South Polar Residual Cap of Mars: History and Current Changes
Peter Thomas,
senior research associate in astronomy,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Classical Renormalization of Codimension-Two Brane Couplings
Claudia de Rham,
Perimeter Institute,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
11:30am
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1:30pm
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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
Simple Universal Hamiltonians
Peter Love,
assistant professor of physics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Flow Control on the Micro-Scale: For Electrowetting, Particle Steering, and Magnetically Targeted Chemotherapy
Benjamin Shapiro,
asistant professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Maryland,
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
Can AGN Quency Star Formation? New Clues from the Study of Fossil Galactic Winds in Post-Starburst Galaxies at z=0.6
Christy Tremonti,
postdoctoral fellow,
Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—CANCELLED
Topic to be announced.
Thomas Prolla,
associate professor of genetics and medical genetics,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
"Software and Computing for the LHC" and "EVO Current and Future Developments"
Julian Bunn,
member of the professional staff in high energy physics,
Caltech,
Dave Adamczyk,
research engineer in high energy physics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
10:30am
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2:30pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar
The Neutron EDM Experiment at ILL
James Karamath,
graduate student in physics,
University of Sussex,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding Recent Atmospheric Circulation Trends: The Relative Impacts of Oceanic vs. Atmospheric Radiative Forcing
Clara Deser,
senior scientist,
climate and global dynamics division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Protoplanetary Disks in the Inner AU
Joshua Eisner,
Miller Fellow,
department of astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Nanomechanics in Biology—Biosensors for Qualitative and Quantitative Biosystems Analysis
Martin Hegner,
Centre of Research for Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices,
Trinity College, Dublin,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Omnivore's Dilemma Part 2: Big Organic vs. Beyond Organic
Ashley Jones,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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