Institute Calendar
November 2006
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
11:00am
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12:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ku Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Martinez Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Andreas Herz,
professor of computational neuroscience,
Institute for Theoretical Biology Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Improving Event Generators with Effective Theories
Christian Bauer,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Perturbation Theory for Infinite Dimensional Integrable Systems on the Line
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
8:00am
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12:00pm
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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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Ancillae with Homogeneous Errors
Bryan Eastin,
graduate student in physics,
University of New Mexico,
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
Topic to be announced.
Rupali Chandar,
postdoctoral research associate,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Generating Squeezed States of Light for Gravitational Wave Detection
Kirk McKenzie,
Center for Gravitational Physics,
Australian National University, Canberra,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer,
Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and professor of chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Structural Insights into Ubiquitin-like Protein Transfer Cascades
Dr. Brenda Schulman,
department of structural biology and department of genetics and tumor cell biology,
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Baryogenesis Below the TeV Scale Abs
Federico Urban,
graduate student and research assistant in physics,
INFN—University of Ferrara,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
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
The Effect of Disorder on Polymer Depinning Transitions
Ken Alexander,
professor of mathematics,
USC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Topological Strings on Compact Calabi-Yau Spaces: Modularity and Boundary Conditions
Minxin Huang,
research associate in physics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Massive Releases of Radioactivity—A Retrospective Look
Charles S. Shapiro,
professor of physics,
San Francisco State University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A New Generation of Stellar Population Synthesis Models, and Galaxy Evolution
Claudia Maraston,
Marie Curie Fellow,
department of astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Vaults: Biologically Based Nanocapsules for Cell Targeting
Lenny Rome,
professor of biological chemistry and senior associate dean of research,
David Geffen School of Medicine,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Workin' on the Chain Gang: Walter Mosley's Message to White Middle-Class America
Cecelia Tichi,
visiting professor of English, Caltech,
and professor of English,
Vanderbilt University,
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Biochemical Network Models with Really Big Matrices
Eric Mjolsness,
associate professor,
department of information and computer science,
UC Irvine,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Assembling New Proteins for Diagnostics and Therapy
Patrick S. Daugherty,
assistant professor of chemical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Biodegradation in the Subsurface as a Selective Filter for Natural Petroleum Emissions
George D. Wardlaw,
Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Is Evolution Understood? Quantitative Questions from a Statistical Mechanic
Daniel S. Fisher,
professor of physics and applied physics,
Harvard University,
9:00pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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