Seminars
February 2009
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
8:00am
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2/10
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Wave in the Tropical Atmosphere: A New Theory of the Madden Julian Oscillation
Andrew Ingersoll,
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Climate Policy Making Learn from Air Pollution Policy Making? The Experience in Europe and the Enhanced Role of Science
Frank Raes,
head of the climate change unit,
Joint Research Center, European Commission in Ispra, Italy,
Institute for Environment and Sustainability,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
10:00am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Defense
Water Quality Implications of Changing Surface Water Levels at Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, and Groundwater Levels at the Mercer River, Central California, USA
Rich Wildman,
graduate students in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Virtual Heart: A Hierarchical Continuum Approach towards Computational Cardiology
Ellen Kuhl,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems and Sloan-Swartz Seminar
Sensory-Motor Integration and Plasticity in Spatial Orientation
Gary Paige,
professor and chairman,
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy,
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
The Development of Raptor Codes
Amin Shokrollahi,
professor of philosophy,
laboratoire des mathematiques algorithmiques,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Characterization of Snowpack and Its Variability in Mountainous Terrain
Steve Margulis,
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering,
UCLA,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
5:30am
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10:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lessons from the History of Air Pollution in Los Angeles for a Warming World
Chip Jacobs,
Bill Kelly,
Friday, February 13th, 2009
5:30am
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10:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lagrangian Dynamics of Intermittent Turbulence: Models and Synthesis
Charles Meneveau,
professor of mechanical engineering,
the Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
9:00am
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9:01am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Hector Bombín,
postdoctoral scholar,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Surface Plasmon Resonance Performance Enhancement with Applications in Nano Bio and Chemical Sensors
Lambertus Hesselink,
professor of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Three Results on the Broadcast Channel
Chandra Nair,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Including Information from Large Multi-model Archives in Climate-Change Detection and Attribution Studies: One Model, One Vote?
Benjamin David Santer,
physicist and atmospheric scientist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Galileo's Dream: The International Year of Astronomy 2009
Michelle Thaller,
manager, Education and Public Outreach,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
10:00am
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11:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Looming Crisis of Air Traffic Capacity—What Can Vortex Dynamics Do
Fazle Hussain,
professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Houston,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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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)
Galileo's Dream: The International Year of Astronomy 2009
Michelle Thaller,
manager, Education and Public Outreach,
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
3:30pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Memory Formation in the Hippocampal Formation: A Multi-region Analysis
James Knierim,
assistant professor of neurobiology,
University of Texas Medical School at Houston,
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Daniel Gottesman,
faculty member,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
Future Nuclear Energy: Advanced High Temperature Reactors
Per Peterson,
professor of nuclear engineering,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Extreme Terahertz Sources
Roberto Morandotti,
professor,
Ultrafast Optical Processing Group,
National Institute of Scientific Research in Varennes Canada (EMT-INRS),
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar
Who Am I Competing Against? Identifying Adversarial Protocols against TCP in a Congested Link
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Detection of Information Flow and Anonymous Networking
Lang Tong,
Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor,
Engineering,
Cornell Univerwity,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the Sahel, Past, Present and Future
Alessandra Giannini,
associate research scientist,
International Research Institute for Climate and Society,
Columbia University,
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
7:00am
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11:00pm
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