Seminars
April 2013
Monday, April 1st, 2013
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
9:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Propagating vs. Non-propagating Madden-Julian Oscillation Events
Daehyun Kim,
Assistant Research Professor ,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Uncertainty Propagation in Structural Dynamics: Physics Based Methods
Sondipon Adhikari,
Professor,
College of Engineering,
Swansea University,
6:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
Resnick Sustainability Institute Flow Program Seminar
Smart Grid: A Road Guide to Smart Choices for the Technology Entrepreneur
Friday, April 5th, 2013
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Large Deformations and Instabilities in Soft Materials
Shengqiang Cai,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
3:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
Monday, April 8th, 2013
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Early Warning, Aftershock Reliability, and Life Cycle of Degrading Structures: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering at Three Scales
Iunio Iervolino,
Associate Professor,
Dipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura,
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Aerospace Seminar
On a Path to Electric Propulsion Immortality: Magnetic Shielding of Hall-effect Plasma Accelerators
Dr. Ioannis G. Mikellides,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Pierre Baldi,
Computer Science, School of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of California in Irvine,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
9:00am
–
10:00am
Add to Cal
Thesis Defense Seminar
Chemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Lindsay Yee,
Graduate Student ,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High-Frequency Deterministic Earthquake Simulation: Recent Efforts, Present Challenges, and Future Opportunities
Ricardo Taborda,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
10:00am
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Algebraic aspects of secret sharing and erasure decoding
EE Systems Seminar
Iwan Duursma,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Coordinated Sciences,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaine,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Blooming of oceanic phytoplankton
Amala Mahadevan,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Regenerative Fuel Cells, Energy Storage Systems for Space Applications
Thomas Valdez,
Senior Member of the Engineering Staff,
Fuel Cell Group,
JPL,
Friday, April 12th, 2013
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Response of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers to Global and Local Distortion
Joanna Austin,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Quadrature by Expansion: A New Method for the Evaluation of Layer Potentials
Leslie Greengard,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Regenerative Fuel Cells, Energy Storage Systems for Space Applications
Thomas Valdez,
Senior Member of the Engineering Staff,
Fuel Cell Group,
JPL,
Monday, April 15th, 2013
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake Engineering Systems: Where it all Begins
Ting Lin,
Postdoctoral Fellow ,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
The Right Kind of Crazy: Risk, Reason, and the Physics of Landing
Adam D. Steltzner,
Manager of the Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing and the Small Body Access Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Imaging neural ensembles during learning
Takaki Komiyama,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology/Neurosciences,
University California, San Diego,
4:15pm
–
5:15pm
Add to Cal
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
Frederic Gibou,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
5:30pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
21st-Century Energy: Solar Storage in Hydrogen Gas
Everhart Lecture Series
James McKone,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How, why, and when is Pacific climate changing (and who cares)?
Amy Clement,
Professor,
Meteorology & Physical Oceanography,
Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami,
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nitinol: from Magic to Saving Lives
Tom Duerig,
Nitinol Devices and Components, Inc.,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:30pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion
Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion: Transactive Energy & Distributed Markets
Friday, April 19th, 2013
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling the Biomechanics of Human Cornea
Anna Pandolfi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Structural Engineering,
Politecnico di Milano,
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
10:00am
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterization of Ground Motions for Assessing Seismic Risk to Infrastructure
Jack Baker,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Aerospace Seminar
Developing New Materials & Manufacturing Processes for Aerospace Applications
Dr. Douglas Hofmann,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
tba
Bence Olveczky,
Assistant Professor,
Neuroscience,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
–
5:15pm
Add to Cal
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spectral Element Methods in Motion
David Kopriva,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
The Florida State University,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
Networking Data Centers Randomly
Philip Brighten Godfrey,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Urban Water Infrastructure and the Water and Energy Nexus
Richard Luthy,
Silas H. Palmer Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
6:40pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, April 26th, 2013