Seminars
February 2010
Monday, February 1st, 2010
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Quantum Entanglement
John Preskill,
John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Nano-Rectennas: A New Approach for Optical Energy Harvesting, Imaging and Detection
Jacob Scheuer,
School of Electrical Engineering,
Tel-Aviv University,
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Low-Frequency Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperature over the Past Millennium: Reconstruction and Error Estimates
Julien Emile-Geay,
assistant professor of Earth sciences,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Experimental Studies of Phase Transformation in Shape Memory Alloys
Samantha Daly,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Arctic sea ice retreat: Observations and Predictions
Ian Eisenman,
postdoctoral scholar in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, February 5th, 2010
1:45pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Computational Investigations of Gravity and Turbidity Currents
Eckart Meiburg,
professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Christiane Linster,
professor of computational physiology,
Cornell University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
9:30am
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2/7
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 7th, 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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Monday, February 8th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Wireless Network Coding Algorithms
Christina Fragouli,
assistant professor of computer science and communications,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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
Fermat's Last Theorem as a Visual Link from Superquadrics to String Theory
Andrew J. Hanson,
2010 Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Nonlinear MIMO Transceiver Design and Matrix Decomposition
Yi Jiang,
senior system engineer,
Qualcomm, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Holocene Evolution of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation Phenomenon
Christopher Charles,
professor,
Geosciences Research Division,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Understanding the Initiation of Failure in Metallic Glasses through Nanomechanical Testing
Corinne E. Packard,
postdoctoral associate,
MIT,
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Creating a Sustainable Future
Sossina Haile,
professor of materials science and chemical engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, February 12th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics
Michael I. Jordan,
professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Scinece and Statistics,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nano-Mechanics Based Theory of Strength and Lifetime Statistics of Quasibrittle Structures, and Analogy with High-k Gate Dielectrics
Jialiang Le,
graduate student in civil engineering and materials science,
Northwestern University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
9:00am
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11:00am
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Sunday, February 14th, 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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Monday, February 15th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Security from Physical Assumptions
Stephanie Wehner,
Institute for Quantum Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Flight of the Fruit Fly: Life at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers
Itai Cohen,
professor of physics,
Cornell University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
David Lea,
professor of paleochimatology, paleoceanography, geochemistry,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Humanlike Robots: The Realization of the Science Fiction of Synthetic Humans
Dr. Yosi Bar-Cohen,
senior research scientist and group supervisor,
Advanced Technologies and NDEAA Lab,
JPL,
Friday, February 19th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulence and Internal Gravity Waves in a Stratified Environment
Sutanu Sarkar,
professor of fluid mechanics,
UC San Diego,
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)
Humanlike Robots: The Realization of the Science Fiction of Synthetic Humans
Yosi Bar-Cohen,
senior research scientist and group supervisor,
Advanced Technologies and NDEAA Lab,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010