Seminars
May 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
8:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Hawaii: The Endangered Species Capital of the World
Colette Salyk,
graduate student in Geology and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Seeing Is Believing: Visualization of Condensed-Matter Structures
Ding-shyue (Jerry) Yang,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium: Thesis Defense
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Converging Geometries
Manuel Lombardini,
graduate student in aeronautics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
P3: Parallel-Arrayed, Power-Optimal, Process-Calibrating, Interconnect Circuits for Future Multi-Core Computing
Patrick Chiang,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Oregon State University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
10:00am
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2:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Joint Caltech Library System and Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Neurocommons: Open-Source Knowledge Management for Neuroscience
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser
Avi Zadok,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Oceanic N-cycle
Marcel Kuypers,
scientist,
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Findings in Materials Under Extreme Pressures
Rus Hemley,
director of the geophysical laboratory,
the Carnegie Institution of Washington,
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability: Financial Choices for a Research University
Dean Currie,
vice president,
Business and Finance,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
10:00am
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11:30am
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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: Thesis Defense
Large-Eddy Simulation of Molecular Mixing in a Recirculating Shear Flow
Georgios Matheou,
graduate student in aeronautics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 12th, 2008
8:00am
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9:01am
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Blue Brain Project
Henry Markram,
project director, Blue Brain Project, and director,
Center for Neuroscience and Technology,
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Key Role of Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices
Liang Jiang,
graduate student in physics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Memory-encoding Shape Vibrations in a Disconnecting Air Bubble
Wendy Zhang,
assistant professor of physics,
the James Franck Institute and the University of Chicago,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Paul Polak: Out of Poverty: Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series
See event detail for location
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere
Allen Goldstein,
professor of biogeochemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
What Do We Know about How Polymeric Semiconductors Work?
Alberto Salleo,
assistant professor of materials science and engineering,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
9:00am
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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
Discrete Dislocation Modeling of Plastic Flow Processes
Alan Needleman,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Interfacing Living Sensory Systems to Mobile Robots
Charles M. Higgins,
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Arizona,
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)
Landing a Backhoe on Mars
Monday, May 19th, 2008
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
High-Frequency Scattering by Obstacles with Conical Singularities: Asymptotics and Numerics
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels
Graeme Smith,
postdoctoral scholar,
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Non-Linear and Non-Local Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisims
Eric Lauga,
assistant professor,
mechanical and aerospace engineering ,
UC San Diego,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The "*" in IPCC Predictions of Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea-Level Change
Ian Joughin,
applied physics laboratory, Polar Science Center,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Coherent Optics and Hybrid Silicon—III-V Devices
Amnon Yariv,
Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanomechanical Characterization and Modeling
Gang Feng,
professor of engineering,
Brown University,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
8:00am
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Ongoing
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Civil War Ends in Yosemite: Nature and Politics in 19th-Century America
Bill Deverell,
director,
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling Earthquakes as Frictional Ruptures: Slip Pulses, Fault Stress, and Supershear Propagation
Nadia Lapusta,
assistant professor in mechanical engineering and geophysics,
Caltech,