Seminars
April 2007
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Algorithms for Variational Problems Constrained by Elliptic and Evolution Equations
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Formal Tools for Model-Based Biology
Hana El-Samad,
postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry,
UC San Francisco,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction
Todd Brun,
associate professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Adaptable Optimization
Constantine Caramanis,
assistant professor of physics,
department of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Design, Synthesis, and Control of Genetic and Genomic Systems
Farren Isaacs,
research fellow,
molecular technology group and Lipper Center for Computational Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Coding of Natural Stimuli: Information at Sub-Millisecond Resolution
Ilya Nemenman,
Computational Biology Group,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Friday, April 6th, 2007
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Bulk Nanostructed HCP Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation
Dr. Teresa Perez-Prado,
National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM), Madrid, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
High-Speed Data Communications in Modern VLSI Systems
Azita Emami-Neyestanak,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Columbia University,
Monday, April 9th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Generation, Concentration, and Detection
Professor Albert Polman,
Center for Nanophotonics,
FOM-Institute AMOLF (Netherlands) and University of Utrecht,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
I Can Name that Smell in 50 Voxels: Spatial Coding and Perceptual Decoding of Odor Quality in Human Olfactory Cortex
Jay Gottfried,
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimers Disease Center, and departments of neurology and psychology,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
The Energy Problem and What We Can Do about It
Steven Chu,
director,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamic Depletion of Vortex Stretching and Nonlinear Stability of 3-D Incompressible Flows
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Shock Load and Cavitation Reload Near Deformable Composites
Yin Lu (Julie) Young,
assistant professor of civil engineering,
Princeton University,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Stayin' Alive: How Bacteria Survive in Biofilm Communities
Tracy Teal,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Energy-Efficient Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Ultra-Wideband Radio
Brian Ginsburg,
graduate student,
department of electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Hot Topic, Cool Science: The Greenhouse Effect and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Friday, April 13th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Contaminated Site Cleanup, from Start to Finish
Jean Martin,
senior attorney,
BP America,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Microscale Particle Motions in Fluids: a unified approach addressing slip, diffusion, and the causes of arthritis
Kenny Breuer,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
What Do Optical Nanocircuits, Cloaking, Squeezing Light, and Supermicroscopy Have in Common?
Nader Engheta,
professor of electrical and systems engineering,
The University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Mm-wave Transistors and Integrated Circuits
Professor Mark Rodwell,
department of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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)
Hot Topic, Cool Science: The Greenhouse Effect and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Solving Intermediate Vision by Nonlinear System Identification
Jack Gallant,
associate professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Mapping of Probabilities: A Theory for the Interpretation of Uncertain Physical Measurements
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Mechanical and Thermal Interface Properties of Dense Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Tony Tong,
graduate student in mechanical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes?"
Professor Kerry A. Emanuel,
department of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites
Jeffrey Long,
professor of chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Overcoming Obstacles with Graph-Based Programming Models
Professor Scott B. Baden,
department of computer science and engineering,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Rethinking Biased Estimation: Improving Maximum Likelihood and the Cramèr-Rao Bound
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanisms of Gating of Mechanosensitive Channels of Large Conductance (MscL)
Xi Chen,
associate professor,
department of civil engineering and engineering mechanics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
The Transformation Design Method and Metamaterials: Tools to Realize Invisibility Cloaks and Other Interesting Devices
David Schurig,
postdoctoral fellow,
Duke University,