Institute Calendar
February 2008
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
8:30am
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4:30pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Sustainability Metrics for Caltech
Asa Hopkins,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanoscale Self-Assembly via Electrostatic Interactions
Kyle Bishop,
graduate student in chemical and biological engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Regulation of Membrane Fusion: Insights from Neurotransmitter Release
Jingshi Shen,
postdoctoral research fellow in physiology,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Precision Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with Reactor Neutrinos
Karsten Heeger,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
New N=2 S-Duality and AdS/CFT
Yuji Tachikawa,
postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminar
Signatures from Reheating after Inflation: Gravitational Waves and Primordial Magnetic Fields
Juan Garcia-Bellido,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Imaging the Proteome: Metabolic Tagging of Newly Synthesized Proteins with Reactive Methionine Analogues
Kimberly Beatty,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid-Structure Interaction Algorithms for Biological Flows
Fotis Sotiropoulos,
professor of civil engineering,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bulky Metal Complexes Targeted to Mismatches
Mi Hee Lim,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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9:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:45pm
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1:45pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
4:00am
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Footprints of the Beyond in Flavor Physics
Amarjit Soni,
The Johns Hopkins University,
8:00am
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6:00pm
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Workshop on Multivariate Analysis in HEP and Astrophysics
Winnett Lounge
Multivariate Techniques for Separating Signal and Background
8:00am
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6:00pm
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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
Topic to be announced.
Erik Muller,
astronomer,
Australia Telescope National Facility ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Sparse Time-Frequency Representations and the Neural Coding of Sound
Marcelo Magnasco,
professor of physics,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Surface of Mars
Oded Aharonson,
assistant professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Assembling Nanocomponents One by One with DNA
Hanadi Sleiman,
associate professor of chemistry,
McGill University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Nanotubes in Global Warming: From Dynamic Topology in Superplasticity to Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
9:30am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nanoscale Quantum Optics: From Single-Photon Devices to Strongly Correlated Systems
Darrick Chang,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
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
Black Hole-Bulge Relations Across the Hubble Sequence
Jenny Greene,
postdoctoral research associate in astrophysical sciences,
Princeton University,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Jim Bell,
associate professor of astronomy,
Cornell University,