Seminars
January 2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
12:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Order from Quantum Loops and Nets
Paul Fendley,
professor of physics,
University of Virginia,
Friday, January 8th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multiscale Experimental Study of Twinning Transformation in Ferroelastic and Ferroelectric Materials
Doron Shilo,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Israel Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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
Insights from a Coastal Ocean Time Series—Biogenic and Lithogenic Sedimentation
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth science,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The North Mudd Retro-Commissioning Project
Matthew Berbee,
energy LEED-EB manager,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Accurate Uncertainty Quantification Using Inaccurate Computational Models
Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis,
assistant professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Cornell University,
Friday, January 15th, 2010
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Use of Digital Image Correlation for the Multiscale Study of Heterogeneous Material Response
John Lambros,
professor of aerospace engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Attention can profoundly affect what we do and do not perceive
John Maunsell,
professor of neurobiology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
10:00am
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5:00pm
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MLK Week Event: Video Presentation of "I Have a Dream"
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fire Contributions to Contemporary Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System
James Randerson,
professor, Earth system science,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Smog in the Pearl River Delta
Zhihong Tan,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1985 to Present)
John Trauger,
principal investigator and project scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Saga of Very Large-Scale Motions in Wall Turbulence
Ronald Adrian,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Arizona State University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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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)
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1985 to Present)
John Trauger,
principal investigator and project scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
9:30am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Observation of Half-Fluid States in Mesoscopic Sr2RuO4 Rings
Raffi Budakian,
professor of physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Technology for High-Resolution Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
Larry Wald,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions from Non-uniform Fourier Data
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Fossil Fuel Supplies, Climate, and Climategate
David Rutledge,
Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Stochastic Methods for Bose Gas Dynamics
Crispin Gardiner,
professor of physics,
University of Otago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Single Photon Detectors—from A to B (from Astronomy to Biology, and Beyond)
Daniel Prober,
professor of applied physics and physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
3:30pm
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4:40pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nanoelectronics—Emerging Trends in Device Technology
H.-S. Philip Wong,
professor of electrical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why Is Monsoon Onset Rapid?
Simona Bordoni,
assistant professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
NanoMaterials for Energy Storage and Conversion
Linda F. Nazar,
professor of chemistry,
University of Waterloo, Canada,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Drinking Water Management in Korea
Dae Jung Kwon,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,