Seminars
March 2010
Ongoing
Ongoing
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3/10
5:00pm
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:15pm
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Accelerate Your Favorite Numerical Integrator with Two Lines of Code
Houman Owhadi,
assistant professor of applied and computational mathematics and control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
The Interaction of Light and Sound at the Frontiers of Nanotechnology and Quantum Mechanics
Matthew Eichenfield,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Short and Long-term Climatic Impacts on Water Circulation in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
Jason Antenucci,
associate professor and deputy director,
Center for Water Research,
University of Western Australia,
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscale Electro-thermal Energy Conversion Devices and Measurements
Ali Shakouri,
professor of electrical engineering and director,
Thermionic Energy Conversion Center,
UC Santa Cruz ,
Friday, March 5th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fish Swimming Stability
Bill Schultz,
professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
THz Bipolar Transistors and nm InP MOSFETS: Scaling principles, Scaling barriers, Technology Development
Mark Rodwell,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Optogenetics: Development and Application
Karl Deisseroth,
assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
9:30am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Distinguishing Convex Sets of Quantum Strategies
Gus Gutoski,
graduate student in mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
How Molecular Motors Move on Microtubules
Ahmet Yildiz,
professor of biophysics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change Impacts on Biogeochemical Cycling in a Temperate Estuary
Robinson Fulweiler,
assistant professor of marine geochemistry,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystals: from Cavity QED to Optical Switches and Quantum Gates
Jelena Vuckovic,
associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
8:00am
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3/14
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Deep Learning with Multiplicative Interactions
Geoffrey Hinton,
University of Toronto,
Friday, March 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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CACR Seminar
The Technical Challenges of Exascale Computing
Peter Kogge,
associate dean for research in engineering,
University of Notre Dame ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Integrated Circuit Design with Nano-Electro-Mechanical Relays
Elad Alon,
assistant professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
8:00am
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3/17
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
8:00am
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Transfer at C. elegans Synapses
Anusha Narayan,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Past 30,000 Years on the Southern Chile Margin: Ventilation, Productivity and Weathering
Zanna Chase,
assistant professor of chemical oceanography,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Seismology of the Sun and Stars
Laurent Gizon,
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung,
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
8:00am
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3/28
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Drift, Jump, Mix: Jet-Topography Interactions in the Southern Ocean
Andrew F. Thompson,
NERC postdoctoral fellow in applied mathematics and theoretical physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Olfactory Object Recognition and Generalization in the Insect Brain
Kai Shen,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Using NASA Satellites to Study the Earth's Climate
Dr. Eric J. Fetzer,
AIRS Atmospheric Science,
JPL,
Friday, March 19th, 2010
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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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)
Using NASA Satellites to Study the Earth's Climate
Eric J. Fetzer,
AIRS Atmospheric Science,
JPL,
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulation: From Statics to Dynamics
Peter Love,
assistant professor of physics,
Haverford College,
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
9:00am
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9:01am
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