Events
May 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
8:00am
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5/7
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Hawaii: The Endangered Species Capital of the World
Colette Salyk,
graduate student in Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser
Avi Zadok,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Oceanic N-cycle
Marcel Kuypers,
scientist,
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability: Financial Choices for a Research University
Dean Currie,
vice president,
Business and Finance,
Caltech,
Monday, May 12th, 2008
9:00am
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9:01am
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices
Liang Jiang,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere
Allen Goldstein,
professor of biogeochemistry,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels
Graeme Smith,
postdoctoral scholar,
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
8:00am
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The "*" in IPCC Predictions of Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea-Level Change
Ian Joughin,
applied physics laboratory, Polar Science Center,
University of Washington,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
8:00am
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Ongoing
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Civil War Ends in Yosemite: Nature and Politics in 19th-Century America
Bill Deverell,
director,
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
8:00am
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studies of Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Jose-Luis Jimenez,
assistant professor of chemistry and fellow,
the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES),
University of Colorado,
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Challenge of Converting Lignocellulose into Anything, Much Less Biofuel
Jared Leadbetter,
associate professor of environmental microbiology,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2008
8:00am
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
8:00am
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