Seminars
May 2008
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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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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9:00am
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10:00am
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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,
Monday, May 26th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studies of Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Jose-Luis Jimenez,
assistant professor of chemistry and fellow,
the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES),
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Plaquette Polaron Paradigm for Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors
William A. Goddard III,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Jamil Tahir-Kheli,
senior staff scientist in chemistry,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Challenge of Converting Lignocellulose into Anything, Much Less Biofuel
Jared Leadbetter,
associate professor of environmental microbiology,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2008
8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium: Thesis Defense
The Development of a Microimpedance Pump for Pulsatile Flow Transport
Derek Rinderknecht,
graduate student in bioengineering,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
8:00am
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