Seminars
February 2013
Ongoing
All Day
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Energy-Inconsistent Objective Stress Rates in ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Other FE Codes: Magnitude of Errors and How to Correct Them
Zdenek Bazant,
McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern University,
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
10:00am
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10:00am
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Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Nadine Dabby,
Computation and Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
The James Webb Space Telescope: Exploration Beyond the Mighty Hubble
Dr. Rolf Danner,
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Building an Information Theory for Layered Packet Communication
Tracey Ho,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Quantification of Nonlinearity
Norden Huang,
Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis,
National Central University, Taiwan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles Megacity as Observed in Pasadena
Sally Newman,
Senior Research Scientist,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Particle Suspensions Near Jamming: Stresses, Moduli, Diffusion, and Rheology
Craig Maloney,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Quantization in Economics: Mechanism Design with Limited Information
Edmund Yeh,
Associate Professor,
Northeastern University,
Friday, February 8th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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TOSHI KUBOTA LECTURE in Aerospace
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Ian A. Waitz,
Dean of the School of Engineering, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Challenges and Opportunities for Long Life Energy Storage Technologies
Ping Liu,
ARPA-E,
Monday, February 11th, 2013
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Gabriel Kreiman,
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Neurons Anticipated Mathematical Statistics and Information Theory by 100 Million Years
Toby Berger,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone frequency to climate changes
Timothy Merlis,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for Theoretical Science and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ,
Princeton,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, February 14th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Highly Turbulent Flames: Another Variation on the Counterflow Theme
Alessandro Gomez,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know
Dr. Riley Duren,
Chief Systems Engineer,
Earth Science & Technology Directorate ,
JPL,
Friday, February 15th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium (PhD thesis talk)
Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework
Alejandro Lopez-Ortega,
Graduate Student,
Aerospace,
California 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)
Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know
Dr. Riley Duren,
Chief Systems Engineer,
Earth Science & Technology Directorate ,
JPL,
Sunday, February 17th, 2013
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 18th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
9:00am
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9:01am
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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, February 20th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
The Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments
James Belak,
Dr.,
Condensed Matter and Materials Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Regulation of the ocean's deep overturning circulation by Antarctic easterly winds
Andrew Stewart,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Lecture
Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers
Jim Bell,
Arizona State University,
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Engineering Infrastructure Efficiency
Eleni Chatzi,
Institut fur Baustatik and Konstruktion,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion
Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion: Distributed Energy Resource Services & Pricing
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, February 22nd, 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
Mean-field and Statistical Thermodynamic Formulation of Models for Dislocation Systems
Bob Svendsen,
Chair Professor,
Institute for Mechanics of Materials,
RWTH Aachen University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME/LOCATION**
Cluster Trees, Near-Neighbor Graphs, and Continuum Percolation
Sanjoy Dasgupta,
Computer Science and Engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled - Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Michael Mauk,
Professor in Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Neurobiology,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
MisMatch.com: Ethics Education and Engineering Practice
Robert McGinn,
Professor ,
Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Towards control of waves and mixing in two-fluid flows
Dr. Outi Tammisola,
Research Associate,
Department of Engineering,
Cambridge University,
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Learning and Optimization
Karthik Sridharan,
Department of Statistics,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biologically Induced Snowball Initiation, and Snowball Ocean Dynamics
Eli Tziperman,
Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,