Institute Calendar
May 2008
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
11:00am
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kwan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wong/Fong Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:45pm
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1:45pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 11th, 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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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Akt phosphorylation of Drosophila Heat Shock Factor: A Signature for Stress-Resistance
Sarina Mohanty,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Engineering RNA Devices for Gene Regulation, Biosensing, and Higher-Order Cellular Information Processing
Maung Nyan Win,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Structural Hierarchies in Cardiac Morpho- and Pathogenesis
Kevin Parker,
associate professor of biomedical engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Blue Brain Project
Henry Markram,
project director, Blue Brain Project, and director,
Center for Neuroscience and Technology,
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip: Insights from Fault Models Governed by Lab-derived Friction Laws
Nadia Lapusta,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Gravity B Experiment
Francis Everitt,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Key Role of Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices
Liang Jiang,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Memory-encoding Shape Vibrations in a Disconnecting Air Bubble
Wendy Zhang,
assistant professor of physics,
the James Franck Institute and the University of Chicago,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
CO Self-Shielding in the Solar Nebula and Parent Molecular Cloud and SO2 Self-Shielding as the Source of Sulfur Mass-Independent Fractionation in Arcehan Rocks
James Lyons,
assistant research geochemist,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Responsive Nanoporous Organic-Inorganic Colloidal Materials
Ilya Zharov,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Contending with Transcription Obstacles: Fatal Stops and Rear-End Collisions
Jesper Svejstrup,
researcher,
Cancer Research U.K., Clare Hall Laboratories,
London Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Spin Physics from the STAR Experiment at RHIC
Stephen Trentalange,
researcher in astronomy and astrophysics,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Properties of a q-Sturm–Liouville Operator
Jacob Christiansen,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere
Allen Goldstein,
professor of biogeochemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: 10th Annual Greenstein Lecture
Luminosity Functions: From Quasars to Gamma-Ray Bursts
Maarten Schmidt,
Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Sequential Event Memory Formation and Reactivation in the Hippocampus and Beyond
Matt Wilson,
professor of neurobiology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
What Do We Know about How Polymeric Semiconductors Work?
Alberto Salleo,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Novartis Lecture
Synthesis and Biological Studies with New DNA/RNA Analogs
Marvin H. Caruthers,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Grace Nicholson: Pasadena's Merchant Princess
Kathleen Peck,
independent scholar and reader,
the Huntington Library,
6:15pm
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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, May 15th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Information Session: University of Redlands Bachelor of Science in Business Program
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