Seminars
May 2007
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5/1
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Practical Error Correction for Quantum Key Distribution
James Harrington,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrocarbon Giogeochemistry in a Seep Environment
Dave Valentine,
associate professor of earth science,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
4:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Structural System Selection Using Performance-Based Design
Farzin Zareian,
assistant professor,
department of civil and environmental engineering,
UC Irvine,
Friday, May 4th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Measurement of Nye Dislocation Density Tensor and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density Based Upon Lattice Rotation Measurements
Jeffrey W. Kysar,
associate professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems,
Columbia University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
8:00am
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9:00am
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9:01am
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4:15pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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MOVED: Chuck Palahniuk: (Event Moved to Vroman's Bookstore)
See event detail for location
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Geometry of Quantum Criticality
Paolo Zanardi,
associate professor of physics,
USC,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Monsoons as Eddy-Mediated Regime Transitions of a Hadley Cell
Simona Bordoni,
Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Search for Earth-like Planets: Looking for Signs of Life
Friday, May 11th, 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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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Effects of Air Pollution on Children's Health
Laurine Tuleya,
South Coast Air Quality Management District Hearing Board,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Experiments on the Stability and Receptivity of a Compressible Boundary Layer
Garry Brown,
professor,
department of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Princeton University,
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)
The Search for Earth-like Planets: Looking for Signs of Life
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
3:30pm
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength
Sir John Pendry,
professor of physics,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Nuclear Power: A New Dawn
Ted Quinn,
retired president,
American Nuclear Society,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Electromagnetic Integral Equations Requiring Small Numbers of GMRES Iterations
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Engineering: A Neuronal Modeling Framework Based on Population Codes
Charles Anderson,
research professor of neurobiology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Finding Braids for Topological Quantum Computation
Nick Bonesteel,
professor of physics,
Florida State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
2-D Protein Crystallization Induced by Shearing Bulk Flow: What Can Classical Fluid Mechanics Tell Us?"
Amir Hirsa,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Ordered Quantum and Dot Systems for Nano-Photonics Applications
Eli Kapon,
professor of physics,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
6:00am
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5/17
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Processes Controlling the Long-Term Stability of Uranium in Contaminated Environments: The Role of Reactions at the Solid-Water Interface
Daniel Giammar,
assistant professor,
department of energy, environmental, and chemical engineering,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
8:00am
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2:30pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Designing Neuronal circuits for Statistical Inference and Discrimination Tasks
Charles Anderson,
research professor of neurobiology,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Development of Seismic Design Procedure for a Type of Bolted Moment Frames
Chia-Ming Uang,
professor and vice chair,
department of structural engineering,
UC San Diego,
Friday, May 18th, 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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ESE & Society Discussion Group
"Science and Scientists of the Colorado River: My Observations and Thoughts on Management and Stewardship
Richard Wildman,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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5/19
8:00pm
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
3:30pm
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
4:15pm
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Identifying Hidden Polynomial Functions Graphs
Pawel Wocjan,
assistant professor of computer science,
University of Central Florida,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Filtered Two-Fluid Models for Fluidized Gas-Particle Suspensions
Sankaran Sundaresan,
professor of chemical engineering,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Chemical Vocabulary of a Microbial Conversation
Roberto Kolter,
department of microbiology and molecular genetics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Incredibly Complex Microwave and MM-Wave RFICs Including 16-Element to 64-Element Phased Arrays on a Single Chip
Gabriel M. Rebeiz,
professor of engineering,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
4:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
The High-Energy Universe in Focus: A New Telescope of High-Energy X-Rays
Hubert Chen,
graduate student in physics,
Caltech,
Friday, May 25th, 2007
8:00am
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