Seminars
April 2011
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
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IST Lunch Bunch
Game Theory for Security: Lessons Learned from Deployed Applications
Milind Tambe,
professor of computer science and industrial and systems engineering,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Improving Telescopes with Quantum Repeaters
Daniel Gottessman,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Density Functional Simulations of Phase Change Materials: Amorphization and Crystallization in Nanoseconds
Robert O. Jones,
professor,
Juelich Research Center,
Institut fur Festkorperforschung (IFF) ,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Markov Logic in Machine Reading
Hoifung Poon,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent Developments in Real-World Tropical Cyclogenesis
Michael T. Montgomery,
professor of meteorology,
Naval Postgraduate School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Recent Theoretical Thermoelectric Work at ORNL
David Parker,
Physicist,
Materials Science and Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness (Thesis Defense)
Nicholas Boechler,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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4/23
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Transforming Light Polarization into Matter-spin-qubits and Back, Using Single, Semiconductor Quantum Dots
David Gershoni,
Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Algorithms, Obstructions, and Beating Exhaustive Search
Ryan Williams,
IBM Almaden Research Center,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Linear Algebra and Machine Learning of Large Informatics Graphs
Michael Mahoney,
research associate in mathematics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Revealed Preference Approach to Computational Complexity in Economics
Adam Wierman,
assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spacetime Could be Simultaneously Continuous and Discrete, in the Same Way that Information Can Be
Achim Kempf,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dissolved Oxygen in the Ocean: Why Is It Changing and What Can It Tell Us about Biological Productivity
Rachel Stanley,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Past and Future of the Linde-Robinson Coelostat
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Tapio Schneider,
Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Michael Hoffmann,
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
Friday, April 29th, 2011
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exploring the Mechanics of Flying and Swimming Creatures through Canonical Examples
Jeff Eldredge,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Robust System Design
Subhasish Mitra,
professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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