Seminars
November 2012
Ongoing
Ongoing
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11/6
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Focused Ultrasound to Expel Calculi from the Kidney
Michael Bailey,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 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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GALCIT Colloquium
Bio-inspired Hierarchical Materials: Micromechanics, GPU-Based Simulation and 3D Printing
Matthew Begley,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Resnick Sustainability Institute Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Lecture
A Discussion with Dr. Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar,
Founding Director of ARPA-E and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy,
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Network Approach to Public Goods
Matt Elliott,
Assistant Professor,
Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Alejandro López Ortega,
"Numerical simulations of Richtmyer-Meshkov flow in multi-material problems",
Jason Rabinovitch,
"A Proposed Vertical Expansion Tunnel",
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Photochemical signatures in rocks
James Lyons,
Associate Researcher,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bounding the Size of Inclusions in a Body from Boundary Measurements
Graeme Milton,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Utah,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Friday, November 9th, 2012
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Metamaterials from Rods and Pivots
Graeme Milton,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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)
Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Monday, November 12th, 2012
9:00am
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9:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Place Learning in Drosophila
Michael Reiser,
Ph.D,
Janella Farm Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Solution Structure and Operator Symmetries: A Spin on High-Order, Compact and Practical Numerical Schemes for Differential Equations
Jean-Christophe Nave,
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
McGill University,
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Unified Framework for Approximating and Clustering Data
Michael Langberg,
Mathematics and Computer Science,
The Open University of Israel,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Frankenstein Revisited: How a jellyfish made from rat and rubber advances engineering of artificial organs
Janna Nawroth,
Graduate Student,
Department of Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Jason Damazo,
"Investigating the Boundary Layer Induced by Gaseous Detonations",
Rashad Moarref,
"Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers",
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate battles between hemispheres during and since the ice age: Palaeoclimate insights from the record of Earth's mountain glaciers and drylands
Aaron Putnam,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Department of Geochemistry,
Columbia University,
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Experimentalists Guide to Galactic Reynolds Numbers
Henrick Alfredsson,
Professor,
Department of Fluid Physics,
KTH Sweden,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of Earth's Hadley circulation
Xavier Levine,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Seminar
Prineha Narang,
Zn-IV Nitride Based Light Absorbers for Photovoltaics & Photoelectrochemistry,
Materials Science,
Caltech,
Rob Usiskin,
Measuring Activity of Fuel Cell Catalysts via Electrosprayed Dots,
Materials Science,
Caltech,
Friday, November 16th, 2012
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Unfolding Spiral Vortex Breakdown as a Codimension-3 Global Bifurcation
Jean-Marc Chomaz,
Professor,
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX),
Ecole Polytechnique,
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 18th, 2012
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Uri Hasson,
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multiprocessor Deadline Scheduling for Large Scale Charging of Electric Vehicles
Lang Tong,
Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair Professor in Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emergence and frustration of Magnetism in a trapped ion quantum simulator
Wes Campbell,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Southern California,
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
8:00am
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
8:00am
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11/23
5:00pm
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
8:00am
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical circuits underlying olfaction
jeffrey Isaacson,
Associate Professor,
University California, San Diego,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Yuri Feldman,
"A Free Convection in Thin Spherical Shells as a Key to a Precise Estimation of the Titan Montgolfier Heat Performance",
Julia Cosse,
"Breaking the Symmetry with Flexible Blades",
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron driven anaerobic methane oxidation in lake sediments
Orit Sivan,
Visiting Associate in Geobiology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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On interactive wireless network security
EE Systems Seminar
Suhas Diggavi,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Seismic Retrofit of Structures Using Innovative Sustainable Systems
Reginald Desroches,
Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,