Institute Calendar
February 2010
Friday, February 19th, 2010
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulence and Internal Gravity Waves in a Stratified Environment
Sutanu Sarkar,
professor of fluid mechanics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Energetics and Heat Budget of Earths Mantle Convection
Wei Leng,
Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
DNA-Mediated Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Biosensing Applications
Jason Slinker,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Learned Surgeons and the Cultures of Print in Renaissance Venice
Cynthia Klestinec,
assistant professor of English,
Miami University of Ohio,
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)
Humanlike Robots: The Realization of the Science Fiction of Synthetic Humans
Yosi Bar-Cohen,
senior research scientist and group supervisor,
Advanced Technologies and NDEAA Lab,
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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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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2:30pm
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9:30am
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2:30pm
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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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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Arpine Vardumyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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11:00pm
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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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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
9:00am
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2/23
5:00pm
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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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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Recent Results from The South Pole Telescope
Joaquin Vieira,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computational and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Michael Jordan,
professor chemical engineering and materials science,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Trends in the Ocean Circulation: Facts and Fantasies
Carl Wunsch,
professor of physical oceanography,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Si Wire-array Photovoltaics and Hydrogen-Producing Photoelectrodes
Shannon W. Boettcher,
KNI Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Optimal Recovery in High-Dimensions: A Unified Analysis of Regularized Estimators
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Spins on Simple Metals: Noise in SQUIDs and Spin Glasses
Clare Yu,
professor of condensed matter physics,
UC Irvine,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observable Effects of Anisotropic Bubble Nucleation
Michael Salem,
postdoctoral research associate,
Institute of Cosmology,
Tufts University,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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2/25
4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed, Real-Time, Embedded Systems: Application to an Autonomous Vehicle
Nok Wongpiromsarn,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
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
Optimal Parametrizations of Adiabatic Paths
Joseph Avron,
department of physics,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
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 Complex History of Massive Galaxies
Pieter van Dokkum,
professor of astronomy and physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Whose Protest Novel?
Susan Gillman,
professor of literature,
UC Santa Cruz ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Michael Eisen,
associate professor of genetics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Internal Structure of Planum Boreum from MARSIS Data
Michelle Selvans,
graduate student in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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