Seminars
October 2013
Ongoing
Ongoing
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10/14
5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heterogeneous Photochemistry and Interfacial Redox Processes of Environmental Significance
Wonyong Choi,
Visiting Associate,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanostructured 3-D Architectures: Mechanics and Physics of Deformation and Fracture in Nanomaterials for Biomimetics, Batteries, and Lightweight Structural Materials
Julia Greer,
Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
8:00am
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10/13
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Community Seismic Network and Quake-Catcher Network: monitoring building response to earthquakes through community instrumentation
Monica Kohler,
Senior Research Fellow ,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 4th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Life-Cycle Performance Monitoring and Evaluation of Civil Infrastructure
Hui Li,
Harbin Institute of Technology, China,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Julian Cole Lecture in Aerospace
Progress and challenges in numerical simulation of multi-physics turbulent flows in complex geometry
Parviz Moin,
Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor in the School of Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering - Flow Physics and Computation,
Stanford University,
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 6th, 2013
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2013
7:50am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Identification & Modeling of Complex Nonlinear Systems from Uncertain/limited Information
Eleni Chatzi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
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, October 9th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Piecing the puzzle of gas exchange and inorganic carbon transport in the polar sea ice zone
Brice Loose,
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Oceanography,
University of Rhode Island,
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning
Philippe Rigollet,
Assistant Professor,
Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Theodore von Karman and Rocketry at Caltech
Erik Conway,
Historian,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, October 11th, 2013
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multiscale Modeling & Experimental Validation of Material Deformation & Fracture in Severe Environments
Nasr Ghoniem,
UCLA Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
Design, Test, and EDA Research for 3D ICs at GTCAD Laboratory
Sung Kyu Lim,
Professor,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia 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)
Theodore von Karman and Rocketry at Caltech
Erik Conway,
Historian,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Ravi Kannan,
Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research, India,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Approximate Formal Verification Using Model-Based Testing
Rance Cleaveland,
Professor of Computer Science,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What controls sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate reduction?
Min Sub Sim,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 17th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Estimating Collapse Vulnerability of Buildings in Earthquakes using a Butterworth Filter
Song Shiyan,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Scalable Multi-Class Traffic Management in Data Center Backbone Networks
Amitabha Ghosh,
UtopiaCompression,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 18th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Project Design with Limited Commitment and Teams
George Georgiadis,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Business, Economics, and Management,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Fellows Emily Kosten on Limiting Emission Angle for Improved Solar Cell Performance and David Brown on Phase Transition Enhanced Thermoelectrics
Saturday, October 19th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2013
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The evolutionary origins of human cognition viewed from the study of chimpanzees
Tetsuro Matsuzawa,
Professor,
Kyoto University,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Chemistry as a New Information Technology
Erik Winfree,
Professor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, and Bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of oceans in setting climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks
Brian Rose,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences,
University at Albany, SUNY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Designing metallic glasses with tailored radiation response using reduced order mesoscale models
Michael J. Demkowicz,
John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 24th, 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
Premixed Combustion Subjected to Intense Turbulence Levels - Physical Mechanisms Identified Using High Speed Imaging
James F. Driscoll,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers
Persi Diaconis,
Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 25th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Size-dependent Continuum Modeling of Flowing Granular Media
Ken Kamrin,
Class of '56 Career Development Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Instittute of Technology,
Monday, October 28th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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