Institute Calendar
April 2009
Friday, April 24th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Aeronautics Research at Two Frontiers of Vehicle Development—Vibration Control in Rotorcraft and Hypersonic Aeroelasticity
Peretz Friedmann,
professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar—cancelled
Elizabeth Santori,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:40pm
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5:40pm
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5:00pm
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10:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:15pm
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2:15pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Haylock Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Family Portrait Photography on Campus: Ruben Minasyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Seferian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
HIgh-contrast Imaging of Evolved Stars with a Space-based Coronagraph
Justin Crepp,
postdoctoral scholar in astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
135,137Ba NMR Investigation of the Field-Induced Phases of the S=1 Spin Dimer System Ba3Mn2O8
Stuart Brown,
professor of experimental condensed matter,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Himalayan Mass Balance: A Bhutan Perspective
Nadine McQuarrie,
assistant professor of geosciences,
Princeton 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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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Variable Selection in Nonparametric Additive Models
Joel L. Horowitz,
professor of market economics ,
Northwestern University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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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, April 28th, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
Steve Flammia,
postdoctoral reseacher,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Finite-Wavelength Scattering of Incident Vorticity and Acoustic Waves
Arnab Samanta,
postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
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
What the Most Metal-Poor Stars Tell Us about the Early Universe
Anna Frebel,
the University of Texas at Austin,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks
Eugene Chiang,
associate professor of astronomy and Earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Extending the Capability of Neutron Scattering
Roger Pynn,
professor,
Department of Physics,
Indiana University and the Spallation Neutron Source,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bohmian Mechanics with Complex Action: An Exact Formulation of Quantum Mechanics with Complex Trajectories
David J. Tannor,
professor of physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Rolling Out the Solar Carpet: Microwire Solar Cells in Flexible Polymer Layers
Joshua Spurgeon,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Synaptic vesicle endocytosis
Eric Jorgensen,
molecular biology program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
and University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Results of the Electron Neutrino Appearance Search in the Minos
Juan P. Ochoa,
graduate student in high energy physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Rethinking in Worst (with Pasolini)
Rei Terada,
professor of comparative literature,
UC Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
8:00am
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Ongoing
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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
Eigenfunction Localization for the 2-D Periodic Schroedinger Operator
Wei-Min Wang,
professor of mathematics,
Universite Paris-Sud,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Hormonal Patterning of the Shoot Stem Cell Niche in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Sean Gordon,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Feedback in Starburst Galaxies
Todd Thompson,
associate professor of astronomy,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards Improved Prediction
Ginny Catania,
research associate professor in geophysics,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Functional Metal-Organic Framework Materials
Joseph Hupp,
Professor of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Analyzing the Dynamic Glycome
Lara K. Mahal,
assistant professor,
Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology,
the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Humanities and Social Sciences Mellon Divisional Lecture
Science, Inference, and Intuition: Markets, Laws and the Debate About Art Connoisseurship
John Brewer,
Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history and literature,
Caltech,