Seminars
January 2013
Monday, January 7th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
New Coding Methods for Nonvolatile Memories
Andrew Jiang,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 10th, 2013
8:00am
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Ongoing
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
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
Cavitation in Rubber: An Elastic Instability or a Fracture Phenomenon?
Oscar Lopez-Pamies,
Assistant Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Saturday, January 12th, 2013
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Resource Allocation Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Siva Theja Maguluri,
Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Lee E. Miller,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Neuroscience,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Optimization Over Graph with Application to Power Systems
Javad Lavaei,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Contrasting Biophysical Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Niño
Michelle Gierach,
Scientist,
Oceans and Ice Group and PO.DAAC,
JPL,
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Estimating the Overall Response of Nonlinear Composites via Iterated Microgeometries
Martin Idiart,
Professor,
Department of Aeronautics,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Optoelectronic Devices Based on Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids
Ted Sargent,
Optoelectronic Devices Based on Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids,
University of Toronto,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Probing the Dark Sector with Euclid
Dr. Jason Rhodes,
JPL Research Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, January 18th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hollow Vortices
Stefan Llewellyn Smith,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
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)
Probing the Dark Sector with Euclid
Dr. Jason Rhodes,
JPL Research Scientist,
JPL,
Sunday, January 20th, 2013
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 21st, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Lessons Learned: The Journey Of One Technical Woman
Telle Whitney,
CEO,
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Associated Stratification of the Ocean
Maxim Nikurashin,
Physical Oceanographer,
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies,
University of Tasmania,
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Locomotion of Microorganisms in Complex Fluids
Roberto Zenit,
Professor,
Departmento de Mecánica de Materiales y Reologia,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:20pm
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Friday, January 25th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Some Experiments on Nonlinear Waves in Solids
Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar,
Temple Foundation Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
University of Texas at Austin,
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Optimisation and Learning for Artificial Swimmers
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, January 28th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision Making
David Freeman,
Ph.D.,
Neurobiology,
The University of Chicago,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Quantifying uncertainty and improving statistical predictions for partially observed turbulent dynamical systems
Michal Branicki,
Research Fellow,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Collaborative Image Analysis with the Masses: Challenges and Opportunities
Alexandre Cunha,
Center for Advanced Computing Research and Meyerowitz Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Deglacial CO2 release from the North Pacific constrained by boron isotopes, radiocarbon and earth system modeling
James Rae,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geochemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Earnest C. Watson Lecture
For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past
Tracy K. Dennison,
Professor of Social Science History,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
On Measuring the Dynamic Response of Soft Materials
Rodney Clifton,
Professor,
Engineering,
Brown University,