Seminars
December 2009
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/4
5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Knowledge Is Power but Ignorance is Bliss: An Introduction to Asynchronous Logic
Alain Martin,
professor of computer science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emulation of a Quantum Spin using a Superconducting Phase Qudit
Matthew Neeley,
graduate student,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Asian Monsoon Anticyclone, Pollution Near the Tropopause and Transport to the Stratosphere
Bill Randel,
director,
Atmospheric Chemistry Division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Nanoscopy with Focused Light
Stefan Hell,
scientific member of the Max Planck Society and a director,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface
Michael Abrams,
group supervisor,
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),
JPL,
Friday, December 4th, 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
Aeronautics at Low Reynolds Number
Geoff Spedding,
professor in aerospace and mechanical engineering,
USC,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interactions between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 during Slow-wave Sleep
Ming Gu,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture: "Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface"
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Monitoring Earth's Changing Land Surface
Michael Abrams,
group supervisor,
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
8:00am
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12/8
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
3:30pm
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Next Generation Large-Scale Chronically Implantable Precision Motorized Microdrive Arrays for Freely Behaving Animals
Jun Yamamoto,
professor of brain cognitive science,
MIT,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Photonic Non-equilibrium Quantum Transport in a Nonlinear Medium
Mohammad Hafezi,
postdoctoral scholar,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Research on a New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices
Amnon Yariv,
Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Maps, Connections and In-vivo Imaging in the Monkey Brain
Kadharbatcha Saleem,
researcher,
National Institute of Mental Health,
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Connectivity of the Primate Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dirk Neumann,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
Friday, December 11th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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6:00pm
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6:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Generic Reinforcement Learning Agents
Marcus Hutter,
professor,
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering,
Australian National University,
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Order: Stability Under Local Perturbations
Spiros Michalakis,
postdoctoral scholar,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum Electromechanics and Optomechanics of Tunneling Systems
Aashish Clerk,
professor of physics,
McGill University,
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009