Seminars
May 2011
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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11:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:59pm
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
9:00am
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Climate Physics and Geoengineering Short Course
Phil Rasch,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Tom Painter,
JPL,
Graham Feingold,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Alan Robock,
Rutgers University,
Mike MacCracken,
Climate Institute,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Role of Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits in Vocal Learning in the Songbird: A Hypothesis
Michale Fee,
associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences,
MIT,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
On Growth and Form: Mathematics, Mechanics and Morphogenesis
L. Mahadevan,
professor of applied mathematics and professor of organismic and evolutionary biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Its Application to Some Engineering Problems
Konstantin Zuev,
postdoctoral scholar in computing and mathematical sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
What Can We Learn from Quantum Entanglement Spectra?
Daniel Arovas,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Response of the Sea Ice Seasonal Cycle to Climate Change
Ian Eisenman,
postdoctoral scholar in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Overview of the Factors Contributing to the Recent fFood-price Inflation
Xavier Levine,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, May 27th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
How to Help (and Be Helped) in Distributed Data Compression
Aaron Wagner,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Energy Dissipation and Conversion in Nanoscale Devices
Eric Pop,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nanosatellites from a CubeSat Designer's Perspective
Andrew Kalman,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Development of Next-generation Millimeter-wave Components and Subsystems for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Thermodynamic Profiles
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
8:00am
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5/31
5:00pm
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Graphene-Based Materials
Rod Ruoff,
Cockrell Family Regents Chair,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
the University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Trying to Compute Capacity of Two-Dimensional Constraints
Brian Marcus,
professor of mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Shangyu Zhang,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,