Seminars
April 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metamaterial Hyperlenses and Spin-wave Resonators Fabricated by Rolled-up Nanotech
Stefan Mendach,
professor of physics,
University of Hamburg,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Functions of Key Structural Unit and Performance Optimization in Novel Thermoelectric Materials
Lidong Chen,
professor,
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
DNS of Boundary Layer Transition over Textured and Rough Surfaces
David Goldstein,
professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering ,
the University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Hydrodynamic Limits for the Boltzmann Equations
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, April 3rd, 2010
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Adaptive Data Analysis via Nonlinear Compressed Sensing
Thomas Y. Hou,
Powell Professor of Applied and Computional Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Mak Saito,
associate scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Crystallization of NiTi Shape Memory Thin Films
Ainissa G. Ramirez,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Yale University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Research Base for FailureCriteria.com
Richard Christensen,
professor of aeronautics and astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Genetics and Immunology of Narcolepsy and Hypocretin
Emmanuel Mignot,
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences,
Stanford University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CPA Career Development Brown-Bag Seminar
Winnett Lounge
Is a Start-up Right for You? An Intro to Industry Science
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Simple Geometric Model for Elastic Deformations // A Verifying Compiler for DNA Chemical Reaction Networks
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing
Tom Stace,
postdoctoral research fellow,
University of Queensland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand
Jeremy Levy,
professor of physics,
University of Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Impact of Turbulence on the Intensity of Hurricanes in Numerical Models
Richard Rotunno,
senior scientist in mesoscale meteorology,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
1:30pm
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2:20pm
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Thesis Defense
Formate Dehydrogenase Genes Form Termite Gut Microbiota: Insights on the Ricrobial Ecology of Acetogenic Bacteria
Xinning Zhang,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Analytical Development and Experimental Validation of a Structural-Fuse Bridge Pier Concept
Samer El Bahey,
graduate research assistant in physics,
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering,
University at Buffalo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Establishing Cellular Positional Information through Gradient Dynamics in the Developing Fruit Fly
Marcos Nahmad,
graduate student in control and dynamical systems,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
Friday, April 16th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Predicting Instabilities in Granular Materials: From Granular Avalanches to Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction
Jose Andrade,
assistant professor of civil engineering,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium, Thesis Defense
Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow over a Sphere
Adam Norman,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
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)
Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE
Peter Eisenhardt,
project scientist,
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE),
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 17th, 2010
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Normalization Model of Attention
David Heeger,
professor of psychology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
A Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Nanocavity on Gold: Towards the Ultimate Nanolaser
Se-Heon Kim,
KNI Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Complex Huygens Principles as Efficient Representations of Wave Fields
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Spectral FFT-Based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains
Oscar Bruno,
professor of applied and computational mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Cluster Expansions and the Stability of Topological Phases
Israel Klich,
assistant professor of physics,
University of Virginia,
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Novel Electro-Magnetic Phenomena: One-way-waveguides and Wireless Power Transfer
Marin Soljacic,
professor of physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Into and Out of the Last Glacial Maximum
Peter Clark,
professor of geosciences,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscale Materials for Solar Fuel Generation
Paul Alivisatos,
professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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