Seminars
April 2009
Ongoing
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
10:00am
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8:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Geoff Vallis,
senior scientist and professor,
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory,
Princeton University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Aerodynamic Flow Control Using Trapped Vorticity
Ari Glezer,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Synthetic Micro/Nanosystems for Rapid Biomolecule Analysis and Stem Cell Research
Jianping Fu,
postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering ,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:40pm
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5:40pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
8:00am
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11:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery
Sebastien Leprince,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Sergey Bravyi,
IBM,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Gwenn Flowers,
assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology,
Earth Sciences,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Interior of Single Molecules: The Uncharted Territory of Materials Future
Wilson Ho,
professor of chemistry and physics,
UC Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
What I Learned about Public Power in Pasadena
Carol Carmichael,
member of Pasadena's Environmental Advisory Commission and faculty associate,
engineering and applied science,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Career Opportunities in the Life Science Industries
Toby Freedman,
president,
Synapsis Search,
Friday, April 10th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nanodiamond-Based Therapeutic Delivery Agents For Cancer Treatment
Dean Ho,
assistant professor,
departments of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering ,
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Role of Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits for Vocal Learning
Michale Fee,
associate professor of computational and systems neuroscience ,
MIT,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Single-Molecule Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging: From Early Steps to Recent Advances
W.E. Moerner,
professor of chemistry,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
12:15pm
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2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Sergey Nizkorodov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Grain Boundaries in Solid Electrolytes: A Short-circuit or an Open-circuit?
Sangtae Kim,
associate professor,
chemical engineering and materials science,
UC Davis,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Potential of Fission and Fusion for Meeting Energy Demands
Paul Bellan,
professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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4/17
4:00am
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Glass Cages for Catching Light
Philip Russell,
director,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Rainbows, Red Sunsets, and Rocket Science Revisited
David J. Diner,
MISR principal investigator,
JPL,
Friday, April 17th, 2009
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
Physics of Aero-Optical Effects
Stanislav Gordeyev,
research assistant professor,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
4:40pm
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5:40pm
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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)
Rainbows, Red Sunsets, and Rocket Science Revisited
David J. Diner,
MISR principal investigator,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 19th, 2009
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simulating Quantum Systems Using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
Norbert Schuch,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Numerical and Physical Aspects of Coupled Phenomena
Marcel Ilie,
postdoctoral scholar in mechanical and aerospace engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:10pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Size Matters: Mechanical Properties of Materials at the Nano-Scale
Julia Greer,
assistant professor of materials science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
7:30am
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2:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Patchy Mixing Matters
Jennifer MacKinnon,
assistant research faculty,
physical oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Confined Liquid and Stress Corrosion Mechanisms in Glasses
Matthieu George,
University of Montpellier, France,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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