Seminars
March 2007
Ongoing
Ongoing
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3/9
5:00pm
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Slot Antenna Arrays for CMB Polarization Detection
Goutam Chattopadhyay,
senior member of the research staff,
JPL,
8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Spike-Based Silicon Cochlea
Shih-Chii Liu,
Institute of Neuroinformatics,
University of Zurich/ETH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Information Markets and Moral Hazard and Equilibrium Selection
Anthony Kwasnica,
assistant professor of business economics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Decoherence in Josephson Qubits: Noise Phenomenological Model and Its Microscopic Origin
Lara Faoro,
postdoctoral fellow,
department of physics and astronomy,
Rutgers University,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Behavior of Mercury in Practical Combustion Systems: Model Development and Industrial Application
Constance L. Senior,
manager of engineering research and development,
Reaction Engineering International,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Topic to be announced.
Nie Shuming,
professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, hematology, and oncology,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Synthetic Biology: From Bacteria to Stem Cells
Ron Weiss,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
Friday, March 9th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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GALCIT Colloquium
On the K-Version Least-Squares Finite Element Models of Problems in Mechanics
J.N. Reddy,
professor and chair of mechanical engineering,
Texas A&M University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
8:00am
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3/13
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrated Models of Scenes and Objects
Antonio Torralba,
research scientist,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Contextuality and Nonclassicality
Robert Spekkens,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Market Mechanisms for Agent Coordination
Sven Koenig,
associate professor of computer science,
USC,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
8:00am
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3/16
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Fundamentals and Application of Slow and Fast Light
Professor Robert Boyd,
The Institute of Optics,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Orbital Ordering in Perovskites
John B. Goodenough,
professor of mechanical engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
10:40am
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12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meet the Players: Direct Identification of Microorganisms Involved in Biogeochemical Cycling and Contaminant Degradation
Michael Friedrich,
group leader,
terrestrial microbiology,
Max-Planck-Institut Fuer,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
From Fluctuations to Phenotypes: Understanding Discrete and Stochastic Dynamics in Biological Circuits
Michael Samoilov,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, March 16th, 2007
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
8:00am
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
8:00am
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3/25
5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Artist Talk: Dan Goods Discusses "Art and the Cosmos"
See event detail for location
Art and the Cosmos
Monday, March 19th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Analog VLSI Auditory Separation and Localization
Gert Cauwenbergh,
professor of biology,
UC San Diego,
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
6:00am
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3/22
11:45pm
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Collapse or Collaborate: Using Synthetic Biology and Mathematical Analysis to Study Cooperation
Wenying Shou,
research associate,
Computational Biology Center,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
9:00am
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9:01am
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: New Details of Young and Old Stars
Richard Zurek,
project scientist,
JPL,
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: New Details of Young and Old Stars
Richard Zurek,
project scientist,
JPL,
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
9:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Adaptive Experimentation, Expected Value of Improvement, and Robust Design
Daniel Frey,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Interactions of Photonic Crystal Fibers
Alexander Gaeta,
professor of applied and engineering physics,
Cornell University,