Seminars
October 2010
Friday, October 1st, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Lecture: "Women's Citizenship Status 90 Years After Suffrage"
Women's Citizenship Status 90 Years After Suffrage: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Jean Schroedel,
professor in the Department of Politics and Policy, and dean of the School of Politics and Economics,
Claremont Graduate University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Anatol Roshko Lecture in Aerospace
Structure and the Vorticity in Turbulent Shear Flow
Garry Brown,
professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Control & Dynamical Systems Seminar
Random Convex Programs
Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore,
assistant professor,
Politecnico di Torino,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sweeping Preconditioners for the Helmholtz Equation
Lexing Ying,
associated professor of mathematics,
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
the University of Texas at Austin,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Public Lecture
Many Suns, Many Worlds: The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets
Eric Ford,
professor of astronomy,
University of Florida,
Jason Wright,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Pennsylvania State University,
Natalie Batalha,
associate professor of physics and astronomy,
San Jose State University,
Mark Swain,
research scientist,
NASA and JPL,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains
Ronny Thomale,
postdoctoral scholar,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark Brongersma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch (Special Day/Location for This Week Only)
An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness
Mung Chiang,
associate professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Can Random Access Be Optimal?
Mung Chiang,
professor of electrical engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rainfall Patterns and Catchment Response during Extreme Flash Flood Events over the Dry Climate Regions of the Southeastern Mediterranean
Efrat Morin,
senior lecturer in geography,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
11:00am
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Micromechanics of Polycrystals: Full-Field Computations and Second-order Homogenization Approaches
Ricardo A. Lebensohn,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Josh Tenebaum,
associate professor of cognitive science and computation,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Scheduling for the Tail: Robustness versus Optimality
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Some Applications of Distributed Estimation and Control
Raffaello D'Andrea,
Dynamic Systems and Control,
ETH Zurich,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From Genes to Biogeochemical Cycles: A Marine Sulfur Cycle Case Study
Naomi Marcil Levine,
postdoctoral fellow organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Micromechanical Testing of MEMS Structures
Warren C. Oliver,
president of Nanomechanics, Inc.,
and adjunct professor,
University of Tennessee ,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Michael Werner,
chief scientist, Astronomy and Physics Directorate, JPL; project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Protocols for the Optimal Design of Multi-functional Structures: From Hypersonics to Micro-architected Materials
Lorenzo Valdevit,
UC Irvine,
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)
Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Michael Werner,
chief scientist, Astronomy and Physics Directorate, JPL; project scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sampling in Spaces of Bandlimited Functions and Variational Splines on Combinatorial Graphs
Misha Pesenson,
Research Scientist in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Isaac Z. Pesenson,
Mathematics,
Temple University,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Applications of High-Frequency Ultrasonics in Microfluidics and Microactuation
James Friend,
professor,
MicroNanophysics Research Laboratory,
Monash University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Micro- and Nano-structured Semiconductor Devices on Amorphous Substrates for Low-cost Energy Conversion, Sensing and Displays
M. Saif Islam,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Recovery of Compressively Sampled Signals Using Partial Support Information
Hasson Mansour,
postdoctoral research fellow in computer and communications engineering,
University of British Columbia,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Learning Tree and Latent Tree Graphical Models: Consistency,Sample Complexity and Error Rates
Anima Anandkumar,
assistant professor of electrical and computer science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of the Deep Ocean in Setting the Last Glacial Maximum Climate
Jess Adkins,
professor of geochemistry and global environmental science,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Insecticide Resistance in Bed Bugs
Morgan Raven,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
10:21am
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12:00pm
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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