Institute Calendar
January 2010
Monday, January 11th, 2010
9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Seeing the Invisible: Discovering New Ways of Nonlinear Optical Bio-imaging
Wei Min,
postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Research, Developments, and Plans for Advanced Virgo
Raffaele Flaminio,
European Gravitational Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Coupled Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions and Biological Energy Transduction
Alexei Stuchebrukhov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A Guiding Light: In vivo Steering of Migrating Cells Using Photo-Activation of the Small GTPase Rac
Denise Montell,
professor of biological chemistry,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Opportunity and HiRISE Observations of Craters, Ripples and Rocks at Meridiani Planum: Constraints on Ripple Migration and Accumulation of Meteorites
Matthew Golombek,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Disordered-Polymer Depinning Transitions: An Overview
Kenneth S. Alexander,
professor of mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insights from a Coastal Ocean Time Series—Biogenic and Lithogenic Sedimentation
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth science,
USC,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
8:30am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The North Mudd Retro-Commissioning Project
Matthew Berbee,
energy LEED-EB manager,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMA Presents "Accomplishing the Impossible: Stories of Historic Humanitarian Efforts"
Ken Kragen,
producer and author,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Accurate Uncertainty Quantification Using Inaccurate Computational Models
Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis,
assistant professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Cornell 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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Physics Research Conference
The High Energy Frontier of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
Paul Sommers,
professor of physics,
Penn State University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic Superconductivity in M-Theory
Jerome Gauntlett,
Imperial College,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Use of Digital Image Correlation for the Multiscale Study of Heterogeneous Material Response
John Lambros,
professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Global Seismic Sensitivity: A full-wave Technique for Forward and Inverse Modeling
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
postdoctoral research associate in geosciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoelectrochemical Investigations of Silicon Microwires for Solar Energy Conversion
Elizabeth A. Santori,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
8:00pm
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1:00am
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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5:30pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tsataryan/Agakhanyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Suprime Survey: A Large Shear-selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters at z = 0.1-0.8
James Taylor,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Attention can profoundly affect what we do and do not perceive
John Maunsell,
professor of neurobiology,
Harvard University,
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, January 19th, 2010
10:00am
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5:00pm
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MLK Week Event: Video Presentation of "I Have a Dream"
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Interfacial Structure and Dynamics: Fundamental Insights for Interfacial Charge Transfer
Oliver L.A. Monti,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Arizona,
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
The Luminosity and Dust Distributions of High-Redshift Galaxies and Their Implications for the Cosmic Star Formation History
Naveen Reddy,
National Optical Astronomy Observatory,