Seminars
May 2012
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
10:30am
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11:30am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Microstrip Reflectarrays for Large-Aperture Interferometric Radars
Sembiam Rengarajan,
CSU Northridge/JPL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar -- A Special IST Lunch Bunch Event
A Perfect Storm of Opportunity
Bill Gross,
Chief Executive Officer,
Idealab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Graphene Mechanical Resonators and Applications
Changyao Chen,
Columbia University,
5:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiple constraints on net community production and its regulating factors in the Southern Ocean
Nicolas Cassar,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Ocean Sciences,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Surface Engineering in Nano-Fabrication, Catalysis, and Energy Conversion
Sundeep Mukherjee,
Yale University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA Dawn Mission,
JPL/Caltech,
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seedbanks as Biodiversity Reserves: Not Your Typical Public Storage
Kaitlyn Lucey,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Error in Constitutive Equations Approach for Materials Identification
Wilkins Aquino,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Duke University,
Friday, May 4th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Aeroelastic Tailoring using Variable Stiffness Approaches
Paolo Ermanni,
Professor,
ETH Zurich,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
Michael Jordan,
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor,
EECS & Statistics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Characterizing the Time Domain
Matthew Graham,
Computational Scientist,
Center for Advanced Computing Research,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Applications of Surface Plasmons Polaritons in Opto-electronics & in Early Health Diagnosis
Alain Dereux,
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chlorophyll fluorescence from space, new avenues in carbon cycle research
Christian Frankenberg,
Scientist,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Discrete Differential Geometry: Helping Machines (and People) Think Clearly About Shape
Keenan Crane,
Graduate Student,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Science at Conservation International
Andrew Rosenberg,
Chief Scientist,
Conservation International,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soil Phenomena at the Particle/Pore Scale
Carlos Santamaria,
Senior Research Engineer,
Georgia Tech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Quest for Other Worlds Like Earth
Dr. Thomas Gautier,
JPL,
Friday, May 11th, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Boundary Kernels for Dissipative Systems
Boundary Kernels for Dissipative Systems
Shih-Hsien Yu,
Professor,
Mathematics,
National University of Singapore,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Homer J. Stewart Lecture in Aerospace
Technological and Engineering Challenges in Robotic Space Exploration
Speaker: Charles Elachi,
Director,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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 Quest for Other Worlds Like Earth
Dr. Thomas Gautier,
JPL,
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
6:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Implicit Sampling, with Applications to Data Assimilation
Alexandre Chorin,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Design and Analysis of Safety Critical Systems
Peter Seiler,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Perihuman aerosol science: UFPs, SVOCs, and the indoor microbiome
William Nazaroff,
Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkley,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
POLYMER DEFORMATION DURING NANOSTRUCTURE FABRICATION BY MECHANICAL PROCESSING
Graham Cross,
CRANN Institute and School of Physics,
Trinity College Dublin,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Navigating Without Eyes Or Ears: A Worms Tale of Survival Using the Sense of Smell
Adler Dillman,
Graduate Student,
Biology,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Atmospheric Black Carbon: Measurements in the Los Angeles Atmosphere and Aging by Condensation of Organic Aerosol
Andrew Metcalf,
Graduate student ,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines
Peter Welinder,
graduate student,
Compuation & Neural Systems,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change, from CMIP5 to IPCC Reports
Jinqiang Chen,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Design with Topology Optimization - From Material Architectures to Structural Systems
James Guest,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering,
John Hopkins University,
Friday, May 18th, 2012
8:00am
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Fluid Dynamics of Embryonic Heart
Mory Gharib,
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metal-filled Photonic Crystal Fibers: Plasmonics and Polarizers
Patrick Uebel,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen,
Monday, May 21st, 2012
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural Patterns Similarity and Visual Perception
Jonathan Harel,
Computation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrative Moral Cognition
Joshua Greene,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Regularization of Positive Definite Matrices: Connections Between Algebra, Graph Theory and Statistics
Bala Rajaratnam,
Statistics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
2:00pm
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
8:00am
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Materials Research Lecture
Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Long-Qing Chen,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,