Seminars
November 2011
Ongoing
Ongoing
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11/1
5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
10:00am
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11/27
11:59pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Motion control of autonomous systems: reconfigurable spacecraft and fast air vehicles
Marin Kobilarov,
Control & Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Tools for Monitoring Biodegradation of Emerging Water Contaminants
Shaily Mahendra,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
10:30am
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11/4
6:00pm
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2011 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory
2011 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory
10:30am
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11/4
6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
OptaSense: (truly) Distributed Seismic Sensing using Standard Fiber Optic Cables
Gregory Duckworth,
Director,
OptaSense Technical and Operations ,
Friday, November 4th, 2011
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Developing and Validating Design Factors for Buckling-Critical Launch Vehicle Structures
Mark Hilburger,
Dr.,
Structural Mechanics and Concepts Branch,
NASA Langley Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
8:00am
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1:45pm
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
9:00am
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9:00pm
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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
The Convex Geometry of Linear Inverse Problems
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Toward a Computational Information Theory
Michelle Effros,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Draper Prize Lecture
Directed Evolution
Frances H. Arnold,
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Willem "Pim" Stemmer,
Chief Executive Officer,
Amunix, Mountain View, CA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Remote sensing of African smallholder farmers and their environment: Impacts of agricultural subsidies and climate adaptation
Gillian Galford,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Woods Hole Research Center,
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Energy and Momentum Transfer via Electromagnetic Fluctuations
Arvind Narayanaswamy,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Columbia University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Method for Computation of Discontinuous Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Solids
Kwang-Chun Park,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Broadcom Corporation and ADC-based Multi-GHz Wireline Transceivers
Afshin Momtaz,
Engineering Director ,
Broadcom,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Photons to Bits and Beyond: The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors
Eric Fossum,
Professor,
Engineering,
Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering,
5:30pm
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9:30pm
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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)
Bringing the High Energy Universe Into Focus
Dr. Fiona Harrison,
Principal Investigator,
NuSTAR,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
9:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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11:00pm
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Random matrix theory and the informational limit of eigen-analysis
Raj Rao Nadakuditi,
University of Michigan,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Random matrix theory and the informational limit of eigen-analysis
Raj Rao Nadakuditi,
Assistant Professor,
EECS,
University of Michigan,
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Formal Approach to Data Privacy
Katrina Ligett,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Equilibrium Pricing of Semantically Substitutable Digital Goods and Welfare Theorems for the Resulting Mixed Economy
Vijay Vazirani,
Professor,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Bio-Inspired Cognition and Diffusion Adaptation over Networks
Ali H Sayed,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CalTech vs GaTech: Secondary organic aerosol and soluble brown carbon
Rodney Weber,
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Tsunami Interaction with Nearshore Infrastructure
Patrick Lynett,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Friday, November 18th, 2011
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
High Reynolds Number Wall Turbulence
Ivan Marusic,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Melbourne,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Analysis of Large-Scale Interconnected Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezic,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Price competition in spectrum trade in cognitive radio networks
Saswati Sarkar,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept.,
University of Pennsylvania,