Institute Calendar
November 2008
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Complexity and Control in Animal Development
Arthur D. Lander,
director,
Center for Complex Biological Systems,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Membrane Protein Folding: Through the Translocon Darkly
Stephen H. White,
professor of biophysics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
A 'Matchimizing' Theory of Addictive Behavior
Sebastian Seung,
professor of computational neuroscience,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Molecular Understanding, Design, and Development of Zwitterionic-based Biomaterials
Shaoyi Jiang,
professor of chemical engineering and adjunct professor of bioengineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment
Cristiano Galbiati,
assistant professor of physics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
8:00am
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7:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields
Michael Kiermaier,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Chirality and Kondo Physics in Graphene
Herb Fertig,
professor of physics,
Indiana University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Revisiting Log-Linear Learning: Asynchrony, Completeness, and a Payoff-based Implementation
Jason Marden,
postdoctoral fellow,
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar (SISL),
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects
Matthias Wapler,
graduate student,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Art and Science of Large-Scale Disasters
Mohamed Gad-el-Hak,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Atomic Force Microscopy to Examine the First Step of Lesion Detection by Base Excision Repair Proteins
Pamela Sontz,
graduate student in chemistry,
caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
Noble Liquids—The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches
Cristiano Galbiati,
assistant professor of physics,
Princeton University,
4:20pm
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5:20pm
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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, November 8th, 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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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:15pm
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7:15pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
9:00am
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9:00pm
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10:00am
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3:30pm
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Research at the Dow Chemical Company
Research at the Dow Chemical Company
Bob Maughon, Rik Tunistra, Tom Kalantar, Jim Stevens Jack Kruper, Simon Yeung, and Bill Kleshick,
research scientists,
the Dow Chemical Company,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Making and Using VO Tools to Study the QSO Distribution
Giuseppe Longo,
professor of physics,
University Federico II (Naples, Italy),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Programming Protein Patterns on DNA Nanostructures with Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides
Justin Cohen,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Social Environment Affects the Expression of Chemical Signals and the Frequency of Mating in Drosophila Melanogaster
Joel Levine,
assistant professor of biology,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Probing Planetary Materials with Nuclear Resonant Spectroscopy
Wolfgang Sturhahn,
visiting associate in geophysics,
Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Precision Muon Physics: New Results and Future Prospects
David Hertzog,
Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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4:30pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar, Part I
FI Catalysts: Unique Olefin Polymerization Catalysis for the Creation of Value-Added Polymers
Terunori Fujita,
Catalysis Science Laboratory,
Mitsui Chemical, Inc.,
4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar, Part II
Bis(phenoxy-imine) Group 4 Metal Alkyls: Synthesis, Activation, and Olefin Polymerization
Haruyuki Makio,
Catalysis Science Laboratory,
Mitsui Chemical, Inc.,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:45pm
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10:45pm
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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