Seminars
February 2012
Ongoing
Ongoing
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2/27
11:59pm
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
7:00am
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2/26
11:59pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Environmental Sciences & Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Informing Climate and Other Contentious Decisions Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty
Robert Lempert,
Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition,
Professor,
Pardee RAND Graduate School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Semianr
Digital Image Correlation A Revolution in Experimental Mechanics
Phillip Reu,
Sandia Laboratories,
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Aerospace Structural Scaling and Performance Metrics
Martin Mikulas,
Senior Research Fellow,
National Institute of Aerospace,
4:00pm
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2/28
11:59pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
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
Compressive Sensing: Dynamics, Multichannel Sampling, and Parametric Estimation
Justin Romberg,
Associate Professor ,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Smooth Direction Fields on Surfaces
Peter Schröder,
Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Understanding RVB states with PEPS
David Perez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Mathematical Analysis,
Complutense University of Madrid,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Controlling Light with Meta-Symmetries and Couplings
Boubacar Kante,
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations
Eric Kort,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies,
JPL/Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
On the diversity equivalence theorem
Joseph Boutros,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Texas A&M University at Qatar,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Using High-Order CFD Methods to Predict and Understand Complex Unsteady Flows
Antony Jameson,
Thomas V. Jones Professor in the School of Engineering,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Friday, February 10th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, February 13th, 2012
9:00am
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9:01am
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Strategies for Solving Complex Problems in Chemical, Materials, Biological, and Physical Sciences
William A. Goddard,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor,
Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Random Matrices and Dyson Brownian Motion
Horng-Tzer Yau,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Who, Where and When - Targeting for Display Advertising
Vanja Josifovski,
Yahoo! Research,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
Fernando Pastawski,
Max-Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Channel Coding in Wireless
Martin Bossert,
Channel Coding in Wireless,
Communications Engineering,
University of Ulm, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
A Complementary Pivot Algorithm for Market Equilibrium under Separable, Piecewise-Linear Concave Utilities
Vijay Vazirani,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Group-testing meets compressive sensing: Novel LP-based decoding algorithms for non-linear (disjunctive) measurements
Sidharth Jaggi,
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Information Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper
Jake Gebbie,
Assistant Scientist,
Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Simulating Atomization
Marcus Herrman,
Assistant Professor,
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy,
Arizona State University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Climate Sciences and the Climate Center of JPL
Dr. Graeme Stephens,
JPL Center for Climate Science Director; CloudSat Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Friday, February 17th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Analytical & Experimental Studies on Layered Multiferroic Materials (Macro-Nano)
Greg Carman,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies
Maysam Ghovanloo,
Associate Professor,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
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)
Climate Sciences and the Climate Center of JPL
Dr. Graeme Stephens,
JPL Center for Climate Science Director; CloudSat Principal Investigator,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012
4:00am
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11:15am
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The complexity of the Local Separable Hamiltonian Problem lem
André Chailloux,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
9:00am
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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
The Weather Underground: New speleothem records of Late Holocene climate
Kathleen Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Earth System Science School of Physical Sciences ,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
8:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California
John Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Control of Magnetic Drug Targeting
Benjamin Shapiro,
Assistant Professor,
Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the Institute of Systems Research,
University of Maryland at College Park,
Friday, February 24th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlinear Gravity-Capillary Wave Patterns Generated by a Slow-Moving Pressure Source
James Duncan,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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