Seminars
October 2006
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
DNA Translocation through Solid-State Nanopores
Cees Dekker,
professor of molecular biophysics,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Discreteness and the Origin of Probability in Quantum Mechanics
Stephen Hsu,
associate professor of physics,
University of Oregon,
7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fire and Ice: Dynamics of Climate Variability at High Latitude
Peter B. Rhines,
professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences,
University of Washington,
Friday, October 6th, 2006
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reviewing for Journals & Funding Agencies
Janet Hering,
professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Fascination with Fluids
Tony Maxworthy,
professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nature-Inspired Optimization Techniques in Engineering Electromagnetics: Let Darwin and the Bees Help Designing Antennas
Yahya Rahmat-Samii,
Professor of Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Orbitofrontal Cortex, Impulsivity, and Borderline Personality Disorder
Heather Berlin,
Department of Psychiatry,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Transition from Quasi-Equilibrium to Non-Equilibrium Double Layer and Onset of Electroconvective Instability
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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On-Campus Filming: HBO's 12 Miles of Bad Road
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Tale of Two Sludges: Metagenomic Analysis of Two Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) Sludge Communities
Phil Hugenholtz,
head,
Microbial Ecology Program DOE Joint Genome Institute,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Looking for Life in All the Strange Places, with All the Right Tools
Tim Krabach,
manager,
Life Detection Science and Technology Program,
JPL,
Friday, October 13th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton and Cell Migration
Juan Lasheras,
professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
The CloudSat Experimental Satellite 94 GHz High-Efficiency Radar Antenna
Aluizio Prata Jr.,
associate professor of electrical engineering and electrophysics,
University of Southern California,
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)
Looking for Life in All the Strange Places, with All the Right Tools
Tim Krabach,
manager,
Life Detection Science and Technology Program,
JPL ,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Discrete Network Approximation for Highly Packed Particle-Filled Composites
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
7:00am
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10:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optimal Quantum Measurements
Rolando Somma,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Kissing Butterflies and Chips Bag: Unraveling the Chemistry of Phenazine Biosynthesis
Dr. Wulf Blankenfeldt,
physical biochemistry department,
Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
In-situ Observations of Crack Propagation in Brittle Solids
Herzl Chai,
visiting associate in aeronautics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Frontiers in Radio Astronomy
Sandy Weinreb,
faculty associate in electrical engineering,
Caltech and JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Watching Neural Ensembles Play: Circuit Dynamics and Population Coding in the Locust and Fruit Fly Olfactory Systems
Vivek Jayaraman,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Commercializing Auditory Neuroscience
Lloyd Watts,
Audience, Inc,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale
Paul Goldbart,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Eye Movements and Reward, Temporal States, and Context-Dependent Target Selection
Michael Campos,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
8:00am
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10/31
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Basis and Consequences of Phenotypic Variation in Vibrio Cholerae
Fitnat H. Yildiz,
assistant professor, environmental toxicology,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Message-Passing Algorithms for Network Scheduling
Devavrat Shah,
assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Dynamic Self Assembly
George Whitesides,
professor of bioorganic/physical organic chemistry and materials science,
Harvard University,
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Some Imaging Applications in Molecular Biology
Gene Myers,
Group Leader,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farms,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
From Interconnect to Device: Addressing Problems in Scaled CMOS Electronics
Alyssa Apsel,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Cornell University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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10/29
2:00am
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
4:15pm
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