Seminars
May 2013
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Regimes of aerosol-stratocumulus cloud-climate interaction
Chris Bretherton,
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Wireless Cyber-Physical System Framework for Enhancing the Resiliency of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Jerry Lynch,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Measurement of Velocity and Concentration in Complex Turbulent Flows
John Eaton,
Professor,
Center for Turbulence Research, Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 4th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 6th, 2013
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission for Earth Systems Monitoring
Dr. Dana Entekhabi,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME**
Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films
James Sethian,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Fresh Perspective: Learning to Sparsify for Detection in Massive Noisy Sensor Networks
Matthew Faulkner,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Surface ocean impacts on the chemistry of the tropical free troposphere
Rainer Volkamer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition Experiments in a Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel
Jerrod Hofferth,
Aerospace Engineering Department,
Texas A&M University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner,
Research Scientist,
Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group,
JPL,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
3:00pm
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CLARK B. MILLIKAN Lecture in Aerospace
Logarithmic scaling in wall-bound turbulent flows
Alexander Smits,
Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
High-Resolution mm-Wave Pulsed Radar for Imaging and Gesture Detection
Amin Arbabian,
Assistant Professor ,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
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)
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner,
Research Scientist,
Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group,
JPL,
Monday, May 13th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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1:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural substrates of memory
Loren M. Frank,
Associate Professor,
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience Department of Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Morphological Reduction of Neurons
Steven Cox,
Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Rice University,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
The Myth of Economies of Scale: The Vendor Business Model
Janet Campagna,
Chief Executive Officer,
QS Investors, LLC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Advances in combustion and aerospace propulsion applications
Sebastien Candel,
Professor,
Ecole Centrale Paris,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Warming Yardstick: What Warming Oceans and Rising Seas Tell Us about Anthropogenic Climate Change
Josh Willis,
Project Scientist - Jason-3,
Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Sciences,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Progress and Challenges in Liquid Rocket Combustion Stability
Venke Sankaran,
Senior Scientist/ST,
AFRL/RQ, Edwards AFB,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Optimal Online Bin Packing in an Infinite Server System
Yuan Zhong,
Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Global Analysis of Tonal-Noise Generation on Airfoils
Peter Schmid,
LadHyx, Department of Mechanics,
Ecole Polytechnique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
Nonlinear Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Hossein Hashemi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California (USC),
Monday, May 20th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one
Michael D. Mauk,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Solving Hard Problems in Science and Education with Game-Based Expert Development
Zoran Popović,
Director, Center for Game Science,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Multilevel Monte Carlo Method
Mike Giles,
Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance at St Hugh's College,
University of Oxford,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
John R. Taylor,
University Lecturer,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Materials Research Seminar
Novel Materials, Computational Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics
Marco Bernardi,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:30am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion
Jonathan Malen,
Assitant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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CMS Seminar
Big Data, Deep Data, and the Effect of System Architectures on Performance
Peter M. Kogge McCourtney,
Professor of CSE,
Univ. of Notre Dame,
Friday, May 24th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special JCAP Seminar
A Versatile Materials Platform from New Functional Epoxide Polymerizations
Nathaniel A. Lind,
Materials Research Laboratory,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Is the Sky Falling?
James Cutler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,