Seminars
May 2010
Ongoing
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
InAs/Ga(In)Sb Superlattice Based Infrared Detectors
Arezou Khoshakhlagh,
microdevices engineer,
Infrared Photonics Group,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Resonant Guided Wave Networks
Eyal Feigenbaum,
postdoctoral scholar in applied physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Jure Leskovec,
assistant professor of computer science,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
CMOS Nanowire Biosensor Systems
Mark Reed,
professor of engineering and applied science,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Connecting Marine Trace Metal Biogeochemical Cycles with Their Corresponding Metalloenzymes in Phytoplankton
Mak Saito,
Associate Scientist,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Block Copolymer Electrolytes for Fuel Cells and Batteries
Nitash P. Balsara,
professor of chemical engineering,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Chris Lynch,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
9:00am
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Understanding the Neural Networks of Attention: a New Global Player in Inferotemporal Cortex?
Winrich Freiwald,
assistant professor of neural systems,
The Rockefeller University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Future Innovations and What They Mean for Sustainable Cities
Paul Camuti,
president and chief executive officer,
Siemens Corporate Research,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor
Richard Harris,
senior experimental physicist,
D-Wave Systems,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Distinguishing Classical from Quantum Annealing in a Multi-qubit System
Mohammad Amin,
head theorist,
D-Wave Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving the Discrepancy between Laboratory and Field-based Reaction Rates: Insights from Isotopes and Reactive Transport Models
Kate Maher,
assistant professor of environmental isotope geochemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Molecular Studies of Catalytic Selectivity of Metal Nanoparticles under Reaction Conditions. New Instruments and Evolution of Concepts.
Gabor A. Somorjai,
professor of chemistry,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
4:00pm
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Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Nonlinear Hystectic Restoring Forces
Jin-Song Pei,
associate professor of structural engineering,
University of Oklahoma,
Friday, May 14th, 2010
8:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits
David Yu Zhang,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Ecology and Fluid Dynamics of Marine Microorganisms
Roman Stocker,
associate professor of environmental engineering,
MIT,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Frank E. Marble Lecture in Aerospace
New Perspectives in Combustion Dynamics and Control
Sébastien Candel,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Ecole Centrale ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Probing the Natural Scene by Echolocation in Bats
Cynthia Moss,
professor of psychology,
University of Maryland,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Discrete Stochastic Simulation of Spatially Inhomogeneous Biochemical Systems
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Adaptive Performance Optimization for Large Scale Web Application
David Wei,
Facebook,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Hidden Quadratic Polynomials and Dihedral Subgroups
Pawel Wocjan,
assistant professor of computer science,
University of Central Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Spark-Ignited Explosions: The Intersection of Chemistry, Fluid Mechanics, and Electrodynamics
Sally Bane,
graduate student,
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Wetting and Drying Effects on Soil Microbial Communities in a California Grassland Ecosystem
Patricia Holden,
professor of environmental microbiology,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Discovery and Characterization of Novel Materials for Electrical Energy Generation and Storage: Fuel Cells, Batteries, and Super-Caps
Hector Abruna,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Cornell University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
8:00am
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Moore Distinguished Lecture
Energy Materials and Climate Change
Linda F. Nazar,
professor of chemistry and electrical engineering,
University of Waterloo, Canada,
Friday, May 21st, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage
Leslie Lamberson,
graduate student in aerospace,
Caltech,