Seminars
January 2012
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
1:00am
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fatigue of structures: basic concepts, cyclic behavior, numerical procedures and lifetime models
Mahaman Habibou Maitournam,
Professor,
Ecole Polytechnique,
Monday, January 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Features
Yann LeCun,
Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Neural Science,
New York University,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Towards a Science of Integrated Systems Design
Radu Marculescu,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
Dr. Peng Jiang,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest
Roger Bales,
Professor,
Engineering,
University of California, Merced,
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Probing Inter-Atomic Interactions in a 87Sr Optical Lattice Clock via Precision Spectroscopy
Michael Martin,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fish, Dipoles and Vortices
Eva Kanso,
Associate Professor ,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Algorithmic Challenges for Greening IT
Adam Wierman,
Assistant Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Probabilistic Models of Sensorimotor Control and Decision Making
Daniel Wolpert,
rofessor,
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
David Romps,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkley,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seismic Hazards in Japan: Role of Seismology in a Modern Living Environment
Hiroo Kanamori,
John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics,
Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Lecture
Nanorod Materials for Energy Device Applications
Dan Dapkus,
William M. Keck Professor of Engineering,
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Skewness-Variance Approximations for Dynamic Rate, Multi-Server Queues with Abandonment
William Massey,
Edwin S. Wilsey Professor,
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Art of Image Processing
Dr. Robert Hurt,
Visualization Scientist,
Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
Friday, January 20th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Recent Experience Applying Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification to Spacecraft Integrated Modeling
Lee Peterson,
Dr. ,
JPL,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Women Mentoring Women Seminar
Beyond Bias and Barriers: Current Prospects for Women in Science
Joan Steitz,
Sterling Professor,
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
Yale University,
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)
The Art of Image Processing
Dr. Robert Hurt,
Visualization Scientist,
Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing low-rank matrix decompositions
Joel Tropp,
Assistant Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Parallel Thinking
Gerard Holzmann,
Chief Scientist,
Laboratory for Reliable Software,
JPL/NASA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean, and variability in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over long timescales
Michael Bender,
Professor of Geosciences,
Earth History and Geochemistry,
Princeton University,
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be Announced
Riley Duren,
Chief Systems Engineer,
Earth Science & Technology Directorate,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Still Water: Dead Zone and Collimated Ejecta from the Impact of a Granular Jet
Wendy W. Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Physics and James Frank Institute,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
God and the 80386: Where the Engineer of the Most Famous CPUs Finds his Motivation
Patrick Gelsinger,
President and Chief Operating Officer,
EMC Corporation,
Friday, January 27th, 2012
9:00am
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5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lecture & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Materials for the Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity
Richard D. James,
Professor,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Energy Exchange and Control of Unsteady Lift in Gusting Flows
David Williams,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Illinois Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
10:30am
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian
Amit Singer,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Weapons of Math Induction for the War on Error
Robert A. van de Geijn,
Professor,
Department of Computer Sciences and Texas Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interaction of Planning Areas in Cerebral Cortex
R. Chess Stetson,
Computation & Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technolgoy,