Institute Calendar
December 2007
Friday, December 7th, 2007
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:30pm
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6:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Verifying Multimode Entanglement
Pavel Lougovski,
postdoctoral researcher in physics,
University of Oregon,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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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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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Simulations on the Dynamics of Metal and Metal Oxide Surface Catalysis Using the ReaxFF Reactive Force Field
Adri van Duin,
senior research fellow in materials science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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)
"CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays"
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Engineering Light-Gated Ion Channels for the Control of Neuronal Firing and Behavior
Ehud Isacoff,
professor of neurobiology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computational Molecular Biology Seminar
Hippocampal Contributions to Aging Memory
Carol Barnes,
professor in cognition and neural systems,
University of Arizona,
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Renormalization and Galois Symmetries
Matilde Marcolli,
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Novel Methods for Force-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Mark Butler,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Applications of Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Alkylation in Natural Products Total Synthesis
Ryan McFadden,
graduate student in chemistry,
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
Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
Andrea Ghez,
professor of physics and astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—CANCELLED
B. Alan Wallace,
founder and president,
Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Posttranslational Modification in Huntington's Disease and Therapeutic Implications
Leslie Thompson,
associate professor of science,
department of psychiatry,
UC Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
8:00am
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12/14
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Structure-Function Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Using Unnatural Amino Acids
Joanne Xiu,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Comments on the Holomorphic Anomaly for Closed and Open Topological Strings
Andy Neitzke,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
NMR and Quantum Information Processing
Raymond Laflamme,
professor of of physics,
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Radio Frequency Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: A Blessing in Disguise
Hossein Hashemi,
assistant profeccor of electrical engineering,
USC,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
8:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Reyes Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Global Modes and Aerodynamic Sound Generation in Self-Excited Hot Jets
Lutz Lesshafft,
postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,