Seminars
March 2009
Ongoing
Ongoing
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3/11
5:00pm
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
The Role of Thermochemistry in Hypersonic Shear Flows
Joanna Austin,
assistant professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Astrophysical Jets and Radio Lobes: Observations and Simulations
Hui Li,
staff member,
Theoretical Astrophysics Group,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gauging Cryosphere-Driven Sea Level Rise: How Stable Are the Polar Ice Sheets?
Shawn Marshall,
associate professor of geography and Canada Research Chair in Climate Change,
University of Calgary,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 6th, 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
Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Wall-Stress-Producing Structures in an Axisymmetic Backward-Facing-Step Flow
Ahmed Naguib,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Michigan State University,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Advancing the Legacy of William James: The Radically Empirical Study of the Mind
B. Allan Wallace,
president,
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Thomas Vidick,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Active Control of High-Speed and High Reynolds Number Jets for Noise Mitigation Using Plasma Actuators
Mo Samimy,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Ohio State University,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Looking Beyond the Cosmological Horizon
Adrienne Erickcek,
graduate student in astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Cooperative Communications and Coding
Gerhard Kramer,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
8:00am
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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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Materials Research Lecture
Developments in Transformation Optics and Invisibility Cloaks
David R. Smith,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Duke University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
8:00am
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3/15
5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Production of Hydrogen from Water with Sunlight: Does the Hydrogen Economy Really Have a Chance?
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Terahertz Spectroscopy—From Free-Space To Waveguide Spectroscopy
Peter Uhd Jepsen,
professor of photonics engineering,
Technical University of Denmark,
Friday, March 13th, 2009
10:00am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanochemically Active Polymeric Materials
Nancy Sottos,
professor of materials science and engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
8:00am
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3/18
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Do We Perceive or Infer the Time When We Decided to Act?
William P. Banks,
professor of psychology,
California State Polytechnic University,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Turbulent Friction on Rough and Smooth Walls: It Is All in the Spectrum (Even in 2D)
Pinaki Chakraborty,
professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Smallpox: Death of a Disease: - A Premature Announcement?
See event detail for location
- Public Event
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
8:00am
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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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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
An Avalanche of Help: Analyzing Cooperative Broadcast Schemes in the Limit
Anna Scaglione,
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Personalized Energy: A Carbon-Neutral Energy Supply for 1 (x6 Billion)
Daniel G. Nocera,
professor of energy,
MIT,
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
8:00am
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3/29
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
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
Dan M. Goebel,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
Friday, March 20th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Large Scale Radiating Integrated Circuits
Aydin Babakhani,
postdoctoral scholar 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)
Advanced Propulsion for JPL Deep Space Missions
Dan M. Goebel,
senior research scientist,
JPL,
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
6:00am
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11:00pm
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