Seminars
November 2010
Ongoing
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11/2
5:00pm
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
8:00am
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Rank/Sparsity Minimization and Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Variational Approach to Enhanced Geothermal Systems Reservoir Stimulation
Blaise Bourdin,
associate professor of mathematics,
Louisiana State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A (Hypothetical) Data to Discovery Engine
Mark Stalzer,
faculty associate in computing and mathematical sciences and executive director,
CACR,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spin Systemsas Toy Models for Emergent Gravity
Fotini Markopoulou,
professor of quantum gravity,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reaching the Wind and Invading New Territories: The Strategies of Stationary and Symbiotic Organisms
Anne Pringle,
associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Dislocation Multiplication and Nucleation
Wei Cai,
professor of mechanical engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be announced.
Anne Laraia,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants
Nabeel Riza,
distinguished lecturer, IEEE Photonics Society,
the College of Optics & Photonics,
University of Central Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
7:30am
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11/6
2:00pm
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7:30am
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11/6
2:00pm
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8:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
High-Speed Turbulent Boundary Layers with Non-Equilibrium Effects
Rodney Bowersox,
Texas A&M University,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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11/7
12:00am
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
9:00am
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Materials Research Lecture
Scattering of Neutrons and X-rays in Functional Materials
Raphael P. Hermann,
professor,
Institute for Solid State Research, JCNS and JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and,
University of Liège, Belgium,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Adam Oberman,
associate professor of mathematics,
Simon Fraser University,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Energy Dynamics
Igor Mezic,
professor of mechanical and civil engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
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
Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform
Carlton Caves,
professor of physics,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Dissipative Solitons: New Nonlinear Waves in Ultrafast Fiber Lasers
Frank Wise,
professor of applied physics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
Daniel Golovin,
postdoctoral scholar,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
A Generalized Coupon Collector Problem
Weiyu Xu,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
All Pairs Shortest Path in Quadratic Time with High Probability
Benny Sudakov,
professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
This is a test
Anony Mous,
Chief,
Earth,
Univeristy of the World,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changing Nutrient Biogeochemistry in a Warmer, More Acidic Future Ocean
David Hutchins,
professor of marine environment biology,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Sustainability of Worldwide Population Growth
Ramla Gabriel,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Syndrome Decoding and Overlapping Equalization for Wireless Transmission Systems
Klaus Hueske,
research assistant,
Information Processing Lab, EE Department,
TU Dortmund University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The JUNO Mission to Jupiter
Steve Matousek,
JUNO mission operations manager,
JPL,
Friday, November 12th, 2010
9:00am
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11/13
5:00pm
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Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Breaking Worlds: Life, Death and the Importance of Being Fractured
Kaliat T. Ramesh,
the Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Wireless Monitoring of Vital Signs—From Theory to Prototypes
Andreas F. Molisch,
professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
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)
The JUNO Mission to Jupiter
Steve Matousek,
JUNO mission operations manager,
JPL,
Monday, November 15th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Detection and Imaging with Waves in Heterogeneous, Strongly Backscattering Media
Liliana Borcea,
professor of computational and applied mathematics,
Rice University,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Network Model for Foam Dynamics
Peter Stewart,
postdoctoral researcher,
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Smart Grid
Steven Low,
professor of computer science and electrical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing
Hartmut Neven,
Google,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum Imaging of Topological Phases
Hari Manoharan,
professor of physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design
Andreas Krause,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
8:00am
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Position-Based Cryptography: Classical and Quantum
Rafail Ostrovsky,
professor of computer science and mathematics,
Center for Information and Computation Security,
UCLA,