Institute Calendar
January 2008
Friday, January 18th, 2008
10:00pm
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1/19
4:00am
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
11:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Kellogg Seminar—CANCELED
Ryoichi Seki,
visiting associate in physics, Caltech,
and professor of physics,
Cal State Northridge,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
8:30am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CS/IST Lunch Bunch Meeting
A Game Theoretic Formulation of the Sensor Allocation Problem
Jason Marden,
postdoctoral scholar in electrical engineering,
Caltech,
Adam Wierman,
assistant professot of computer science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Active Control of Separated Flow
Louis Cattafesta,
associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ,
University of Florida,
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
Do the Milky Way's Outskirts Live Up to Cosmological Expectations?
Hans-Walter Rix,
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Recent Results in Gas Giant Meteorology from Cassini and New Horizons
Kevin Baines,
principal scientist,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Binary Black Holes: Numerical Simulations and Approximation Methods
Lawrence Kidder,
senior research associate in astronomy,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Healthspan Genetics and Chance: How Some Worms Age Better Than Others
Professor Monica Driscoll,
department of molecular biology and biochemistry,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Iterative Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Strong Dispersive Coupling between a High Finesse Cavity and a Micromechanical Object
Jack Harris,
assistant professor of physics and applied physics,
Yale University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Mean Field Analysis of Low-Dimensional Systems
Lincoln Chayes,
professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gyoxal as a New Tracer of Photochemical Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
Frank N. Keutsch,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin—Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Plants, and Beaches
Ed Turner,
professor of astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Abstraction Methods for Liveness
Amir Pnueli,
professor of computer science,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
"Small Molecule Control of Bacterial Biofilms"
Christian Melander,
assistant professor of bio-organic chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Voice and Text in Medieval Lyric
Seth Lerer,
professor of English,
Stanford University,
6:15pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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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, January 24th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Goods Movement and Air Pollution: How Many People Died for your Nikes?
David Pettit,
senior attorney and director,
Southern California Air Quality Project,
Natural Resources Defense Council,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
In Promptu Ponere: Removing Noise in Cryoimaging
Alexandre Cunha,
computational scientist,
Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Symbiotic Nbitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Reveals the Last Missing Step in Vitamin B12 Biosynthesis
Michiko Taga,
postdoctoral associate in biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Evolution of the Colorado River: Culmination of a Major Cenozoic Transformation of Southwest North American Drainage Patterns
Marty Grove,
ion microprobe facility manager,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. Coli
Ned Wingreen,
professor of molecular biology,
Princeton University,