Institute Calendar
January 2010
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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General Biology Seminar
What a Peptide Taught Us about Plamodium-Mosquito Interactions
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena,
professor of molecular microbiology and immunology,
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Small But Significant: Irregular Satellites and Main Belt Comets
David Jewitt,
professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
and Institute for Geophysics and Space Physics,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Gaussian Free Field in an Interlacing Particle System With Two Different Jump Rates
Maurice Duits,
Olga Taussky - John Todd Instructor in Mathematics ,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
Toward Molecular Switches at Interfaces via Direct-Write Click Chemistry
Walter Paxton,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Eta Carinae and Pre-Supernova Temper Tantrums of Massive Stars
Nathan Smith,
postdoctoral researcher in astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fire Contributions to Contemporary Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System
James Randerson,
professor, Earth system science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Control of Transcription and Receptor Function with Rationally Designed Protein Ligands
Bogdan Z. Olenyuk,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Location to be announced
TNOs on HST, Lessons from the Archive
César Fuentes,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Smog in the Pearl River Delta
Zhihong Tan,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
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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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Novel Pyroelectric and Switched Ferroelectric Ion Sources for Mass Spectrometry: Implementation and Applications
Evan Neidholdt,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microfluidic Fuel Cells as Power Sources and Analytical Platforms
Fikile Brushett,
graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Visualizing and Animating the Earth: Plate Tectonics, Ice Ages, and Other Geo-tales
Tanya Atwater,
professor of Earth science, emeritus,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Horowitz Lecture
Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity
Michael Donoghue,
professor of ecology and evolutionary biology,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity
David Charbonneau,
professor of astronomy,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1985 to Present)
John Trauger,
principal investigator and project scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Proposals for the Detection and Production of Majorana Particles
Patrick Lee,
professor of physics,
MIT,
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
The Saga of Very Large-Scale Motions in Wall Turbulence
Ronald Adrian,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthetic Applications of Silicon Lewis Acids: Total Synthesis of MS-153 and Manzacidin C
Kristy Tran,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1985 to Present)
John Trauger,
principal investigator and project scientist,
JPL,
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, January 23rd, 2010
9:30am
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1/24
6:00pm
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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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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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 24th, 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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3:30pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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