Seminars
November 2008
Ongoing
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11/4
5:00pm
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11/1
1:00am
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Extreme Heat in Extremely Small Particles: Resonant Electromagnetic Heating and Peculiar Heat Conduction in Nanostructures
David Boyd,
lecturer in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Towards High-Performance and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Networks
Alan Willner,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical Pacific Climate during the Last Millennium
Julian Sachs,
associate professor of chemical oceanography,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Intermittency and Roughening in the Failure of Heterogeneous Brittle Materials: Some Possible Contributions from Statistical Physics
Daniel Bonamy,
division of physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces,
CEA-SACLAY,
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Water Use on Campus
Matt Berbee,
sustainability coordinator,
Caltech,
John Onderdonk,
manager,
Sustainability Programs,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
8:00am
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7:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Revisiting Log-Linear Learning: Asynchrony, Completeness, and a Payoff-based Implementation
Jason Marden,
postdoctoral fellow,
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar (SISL),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Art and Science of Large-Scale Disasters
Mohamed Gad-el-Hak,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
9:00am
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9:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Making and Using VO Tools to Study the QSO Distribution
Giuseppe Longo,
professor of physics,
University Federico II (Naples, Italy),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Social Environment Affects the Expression of Chemical Signals and the Frequency of Mating in Drosophila Melanogaster
Joel Levine,
assistant professor of biology,
University of Toronto,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Key Scales and Mechanisms in Fluid Particle Systems
Michele Guala,
postdoctoral scholar in aeronautics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Pollen and Asthma
Richard Flagan,
Irma and Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemical Engineering,
professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A Taxonomy of Nets and Crystal Design
Michael O'Keeffe,
professor of chemistry,
Arizona State University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Innovations in Environmental Education (aka: "Are You Smarter than a 6th Grader?")
Lindsay Yee,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
10:00am
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11:30pm
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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
Dislocation-Based Models of Deformation and Fracture of Structural Materials in Extreme Environments
Nasr M. Ghoniem,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Novel Electromagnetic Band Gap Designs: From Microwaves to Submillimeter Waves
Nuria Llombart,
postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering,
Caltech,
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)
New Discoveries from the Spitzer Telescope
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Daniel Lidar,
associate professor,
Department of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics,
USC,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 19th, 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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights on Redox Cycling and Microbial Function with in Situ Voltammetry
Greg Druschel,
assistant professor of geology,
University of Vermont,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Polar Oxide Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Functional Properties
P. Shiv Halasyamani,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Houston,
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
8:00am
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Ongoing
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8:00am
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8:45am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lake Baikal: The Blue Eye of Siberia
Kaitlyn Lucey,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,