Seminars
March 2008
Ongoing
Ongoing
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3/12
5:00pm
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
When the Signal is the Noise: Stochastic Synchronization
Bard Ermentrout,
Professor of Computational Biology,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Measurement-only Topological Quantum Computation
Parsa Bonderson,
postdoctoral scholar,
Microsoft Station Q,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar: Special Kliegel Seminar
The Future of Oil and Gas Exploration and Recovery
Imran Kizilbash,
president,
reservoir characterization group,
Schlumberger Oilfield Services,
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Siderophore-Mediated Biogeochemical Cycling of Transition Metals
Owen Duckworth,
assistant professor of soil biogeochemistry,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—CANCELLED
Wulfram Gerstner,
professor of computational science,
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
Greg Critser,
journalist and author,
9:00am
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10:00am
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
What Is Wall Turbulence: How Can We Control It?
Jonathan F. Morrison,
professor of experimental fluid mechanics,
department of aeronautics,
Imperial College, London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Exploiting Capacitance for High-Performance Computer Systems
Ron Ho,
distinguished principal engineer,
Sun Microsystems,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
10:00am
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11:00am
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Silence and Noise in Gene Regulation by Small RNA
Erel Levine,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Recent Advances in Organic Nonlinear Optics and Photonics
Savas Tay,
postdoctoral researcher,
Optical Sciences Center,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Behavioral Variation in Production and Plasticity of Adult Birdsong
Michael Brainard,
assistant professor of physiology,
UC San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Solar Variability and Climate Change
Ka-Kit Tung,
professor of applied mathematics and adjunct professor in atmospheric science,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
8:00am
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3/16
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Between the Looking Glasses: Negative Refraction and Field-Effect Modulation in Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides
Jen Dionne,
graduate student in applied physics,
Caltech,
Friday, March 14th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Biomechanics of the Cytoskeleton: Cell Contractility and Mechanosensitivity of Cell Adhesion
Vikram Deshpande,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Metamaterial Antennas
Tatsuo Itoh,
professor of electrical engineering,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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5:16pm
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
8:00am
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3/19
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
On the Nature of Abstraction
Robert Irwin,
environmental artist and sculptor,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Systems Biophysics and Information Processing in Biological Networks
Ilya Nemenman,
technical staff member,
Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Cost of a Nonlocal Measurement
William Wootters,
professor of physics,
Williams College,
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
8:00am
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3/30
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Enceladus: The Newest Wrinkle from Saturn's Tiger-Striped Moon
Friday, March 21st, 2008
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)
Enceladus: The Newest Wrinkle from Saturn's Tiger-Striped Moon
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
6:30pm
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3/24
2:00am
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Working Memory and Distributed Cortical Processing
Charles Gray,
professor of biomedical sciences,
Center for Computational Biology,
Montana State University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Toward a New Science of Connectomics
Sebastian Seung,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
9:00am
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9:01am
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