Seminars
April 2006
Ongoing
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4/1
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
11:00am
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4:15pm
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2:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Chemical Transformations in Nanocrystals
Paul Alivisatos,
Chancellor's Professor,
department of chemistry and materials science,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
One-and-a-Half Quantum de Finetti Theorems
Matthias Christandl,
postdoctoral researcher and college research fellow,
Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Numerical Simulations of Biological Locomotion in Fluids in a Moderate Reynolds Number Regime
Jeff Eldredge,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
UCLA,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Coming Out of the Dark: Using Genomics to Shed Light on the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
Amy Schaefer,
research scientist,
department of microbiology,
University of Washington,
Friday, April 7th, 2006
12:00pm
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11:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
What Can Prehistoric Easter Island Teach Modern America about Sustainability?
Ashley Jones,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Power Supply Integrity: Integrated Circuit Design with Systems Techniques
Elad Alon,
doctoral candidate,
department of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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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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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Special Seminar
Machine Learning Reductions
John Langford,
research assistant professor,
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical Modeling and Impedance Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Professor Wolfgang Bessler,
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing,
University of Heidelberg, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
The Quantum Internet: How Einstein's Objection to Quantum Mechanics Leads to a Whole New Field in Physics
James Chin-Wen Chou,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
8:00am
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12:30pm
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10:00am
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Studying the BCX-BEC Crossover Regime with a Fermi Gas of ^{40}K Atoms
Cindy Regal,
postdoctoral researcher,
JILA, University of Colorado,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Advances in Low-Dimensional Modeling of Fluids: Cavities, Channels, and Airfoils
Clarence Rowley,
assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Land Use and Climate Change
Professor Eugenia Kalnay,
department of meteorology,
University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Approaches to Optical, Electronic, Magnetic, and Structural Materials through Control of Nanoscale Self-Organization
Sarah Tolbert,
associate professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Watson Lecture Dinner: Friends of Beckman Auditorium Event
See event detail for location
- Public Event
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
8:45am
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6:30pm
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8:45am
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6:30pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Observation of High-Temperature Superfluidity in a Gas of Fermionic Atoms
Martin Zwierlein,
graduate student in physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Modular Static Analysis with Sets and Relations
Viktor Kuncak,
PhD candidate, electrical engineering and computer science department, and research assistant,
computer science and artifical intelligence laboratory,
MIT,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Radar Sounding of Mars: MARSIS on Mars Express
Dr. Jeffrey Plaut,
co-principal investigator, MARSIS Instrument, Mars Express Spacecraft,
JPL,
Friday, April 14th, 2006
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
An Interdisciplinary Examination of Sustainable Development
Nathan Chan,
ESE,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar
Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with Cold Polar Molecules
Peter Zoller,
professor of theoretical physics,
University of Innsbruck,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
The VLSI Design of a Bio-Inspired Silicon Cortex: Mixed-Signal and Analog Approaches
George Yuan,
graduate student in electrical engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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)
Radar Sounding of Mars: MARSIS on Mars Express
Dr. Jeffrey Plaut,
co-principal investigator,
MARSIS Instrument, Mars Express Spacecraft,
JPL ,
Monday, April 17th, 2006
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Applications of the Jones Polynomial to Quantum Computation and Complexity Theory
Jon Yard,
postdoctoral scholar in physics,
Institute for Quantum Information,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Strings and Rods with Applications to Flagellar Motion
K. Ravi-Chandar,
professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics,
University of Texas, Austin,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Flow through Aquatic Vegetation
Heidi Nepf,
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering,
MIT,
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Friday, April 21st, 2006
10:00am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Death by Gas Station: The Continuing Struggle to Reduce Air Pollution at 4,000 Stations
Laurin Tuleja,
South Coast Air Quality Management District,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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