Seminars
October 2011
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sharp Thresholds in Statistical Learning
Andrea Montanari,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Statistics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Assimilation of Images: A Challenge
Francois-Xavier Le Dimet,
Professor,
France,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Raffle-Based Incentive Schemes for Congestion Management
Patrick Loiseau,
UC Santa Cruz / UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Automatic Verification of Region Stability of Hybrid Systems
Sayan Mitra,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Explaining the Strange Electronic Properties of Cuprates, Including Superconductivity
Jamil Tahir-Kheli and William A. Goddard III,
Materials and Process Simulation Center,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Space-based Measurements of NO2: Urban Trends, Rural Farms and Thoughts on OH
Ron Cohen,
Professor of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of California, Berkley,
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 8th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
9:30am
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Sensory Processing in a Small Brain
Rachel Wilson,
Associate Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Chi-Square and Classical Exact Tests Often Wildly Misreport Significance; the Remedy Lies in Computers
Rachel Ward,
Assistant Professor / Harrington Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Progress on Flapping-wing Robotic Insects
Robert Wood,
Associate Professor,
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Bridging Photonics and Computing
Mario Paniccia,
Intel Fellow and Director of the Photonics Technology Lab,
Corporate Technology Group,
Intel Corporation,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Number Form Area in the Human Inferior Temporal Cortex: An Intracranial Electrocorticography and Electrical Brain Stimulation Study in Conscious Human Subjects
Josef Parvizi,
Assistant Professor,
Neurology & Neurological Sciences,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Resnick Institute Lecture
Mechanochemistry for Biomass-Derived Chemicals
Richard Blair,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Central Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division
Wang Sang Koon,
Senior Scientist,
Control and Dynamical Systems ,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change and the End of Exponential Growth
Pieter Tans,
Senior Research Scientist,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Earnest C. Watson Lecture
Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions?
Antonio Rangel,
Professor of Economics and Neuroscience,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
9:00am
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5:00pm
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The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium
The Southern California Smart Grid Research Symposium
9:00am
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
A Self-Powered Underwater Robot
Dr. Yi Chao & Thomas Valdez,,
Principal Investigator, SOLO-TREC, ,
Engineering Staff, Electrochemical Technologies Group,
Friday, October 14th, 2011
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Experimental studies of shock-driven mixing
Megan Leftwich,
Dr.,
Extreme Fluids Team,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
High Dimensional Graphical Model Selection: Tractable Graph Families and Parameter Regimes
Animashree Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Irvine,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
A Self-Powered Underwater Robot
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Mathematics in Financial World: Practical Modelling and Trading
Wendong Qu,
Senior Vice President,
PIMCO,
Gang Hu,
Managing Director,
Credit Suisse, London,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Roughness, Fractality, Contact and Friction
James Barber,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Toward Discovering the 3D Geometrical and Semantic Structure of Objects and Scenes
Silvio Savarese,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Organisation of Diverse Phytoplankton Communities in the Ocean
Mick Follows,
Senior Research Scientist,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 21st, 2011
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Towards non-classical mechanical states in an optomechanical whispering gallery mode resonator
Warwick Bowen,
Professor,
Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
From Concept to Orbit: Developing a Student Satellite Program at The University of Texas
Glenn Lightsey,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics ,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Efficiency and Flexibility
Dejan Marković,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles.,
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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11:59pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Manipulation of light by strong interactions in nanostructures
Tal Ellenbogen,
Dr.,
Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Inverse Problems for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators
Mark Embree,
Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Rice University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Write or Radiate
Christopher Rose,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rutgers University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
8:00am
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Ongoing
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3:30pm
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