Institute Calendar
March 2009
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
10:00am
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4:00pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Advancing the Legacy of William James: The Radically Empirical Study of the Mind
B. Allan Wallace,
president,
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Stress Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor
Justin Rubinstein,
Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow,
U.S. Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Trianionic Pincer Ligands: Nitrile Synthesis via N-Atom Transfer, High Oxidation State Cr(IV) and Cr(V) and New Chemistry with W-W Triple Bonds
Adam S. Veige,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Florida,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Thomas Vidick,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Active Control of High-Speed and High Reynolds Number Jets for Noise Mitigation Using Plasma Actuators
Mo Samimy,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Ohio State 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
Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope: Resolving Galaxy Formation on sub-kpc Scales via Gravitational Lensing
Mark Swinbank,
Institute for Computational Cosmology,
University of Durham,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Looking Beyond the Cosmological Horizon
Adrienne Erickcek,
graduate student in astrophysics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Syzygies: Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits
Jay Pasachoff,
professor of astronomy,
Williams College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Cooperative Communications and Coding
Gerhard Kramer,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor, an Allosteric Membrane Protein Involved in Signal Transduction: Recent Structural Evidence
Jean-Pierre Changeux,
professor of receptors and cognition,
Pasteur Institute,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Random Walk and CMV Matrices
Maria Jose Cantero,
department of applied mathematics,
University of Zaragoza, Spain,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Strong Lensing and the Mass of Massive Galaxies
Adam Bolton,
Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Developments in Transformation Optics and Invisibility Cloaks
David R. Smith,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Duke University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
8:00am
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3/15
5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Production of Hydrogen from Water with Sunlight: Does the Hydrogen Economy Really Have a Chance?
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Terahertz Spectroscopy—From Free-Space To Waveguide Spectroscopy
Peter Uhd Jepsen,
professor of photonics engineering,
Technical University of Denmark,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Functional Consequences of Coupled Folding and Binding in the NF-κB/IκBα
Elizabeth Komives,
professor of geological sciences,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Dielectrophoretic Surface Deposition and Thermal Processing of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene Flakes and Gold Nanoparticles in Colloidal Suspensions
Dimos Poulikakos,
professor of thermodynamics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Foraminifera-Bound Nitrogen and the Ice Age Ocean's Slower Nitrogen Budget
Danny Sigman,
Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Why Was the Industrial Revolution British?
Allen Robert,
professor of economic history,
Oxford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Corrections to Chern-Simons-Matter Moduli Spaces
Daniel Jafferis,
postdoctoral fellow in high energy physics,
Rutgers University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanochemically Active Polymeric Materials
Nancy Sottos,
professor of materials science and engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The Deep Underground Gravity Lab at DUSEL
Vuk Mandic,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Elucidating Signaling Events through Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
Judit Villen,
Department of Cell Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Zirconocene Aluminohydride Complexes: Possible Resting States for Ziegler-Natta Polymerization
Steven Baldwin,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Representation and Modest Scepticism in Hume's Metaphysics of Space
Donald Ainsle,
professor of philosophy,
University of Toronto,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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