Seminars
November 2013
Ongoing
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11/5
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Friday, November 1st, 2013
10:00am
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Network Improvement Problem for Equilibrium Routing
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Microscopic Suspension Feeders Near Boundaries: Feeding Restrictions and Strategies Due to Eddies
Rachel Pepper,
Miller Inst. Research Fellow,
Integrative Biology and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 4th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Market Designs for Reserve Capacity in the Presence of Renewable in-feed and Demand Response
Tobias Haring,
Power Systems Laboratory,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice
Marta Kwiatkowski,
Trinity College, University of Oxford,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
EE Systems Seminar
Mung Chiang,
Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University,
Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium / EE Systems Seminar
From Cloud to Fog
Mung Chiang,
Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
MOOC, MIIC, MOOE
Mung Chiang,
Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Diversity and Evolution of Aerobic Respiration and Denitrification
James Hemp,
Agouron Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Optical stimulation of distinct cell assemblies generates a new artificial associative-memory
Kaoru Inokuchi,
Professor,
University of Toyama,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 7th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Pattern Formation in Soft Elastic Films and Methods to Enhance Adhesion
Manoj Chaudhury,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Lehigh University,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Fellows Subrahmanyam Duvvuri on "A Fresh Approach to Turbulence Towards Reduction of Skin-friction Drag" and Michael Webb on "Path-Integral Methods in Stable Isotope Studies: Implications for Geochemical and Atmospheric Isotope Analysis"
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
From IRAS to Spitzer and Beyond: 30 years of Space-Based Infrared Astronomy
Luisa Rebull,
Associate Research Scientist,
Spitzer Science Center (SSC), Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC),
Caltech,
Friday, November 8th, 2013
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamic Eshelby Micromechanics (with inertia effects)
Xanthippi Markenscoff,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
X-ray Electron Densities as a Tool in Materials Research
Bo Brummerstedt Iversen,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Aarhus University, Denmark,
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)
From IRAS to Spitzer and Beyond: 30 years of Space-Based Infrared Astronomy
Luisa Rebull,
Associate Research Scientist,
Spitzer Science Center (SSC), Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC),
Caltech,
Monday, November 11th, 2013
9:00am
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9:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sampling Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra and Their Application
Yousef Saad,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Calculus for the Optiman Quantification of Uncertainties
Houman Owhadi,
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Free Public Lecture
Theodore von Kármán and Rocketry at Caltech
Erik M. Conway,
Historian,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Empirical Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice
Rachel Cummings,
PhD Student,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
(A Chemist's) Exploration of the Potential Atmospheric Impacts of Carbonaceous Aerosol
Jon Abbatt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Damage Detection in Civil Structures Using High-Frequency Seismograms
Vanessa Heckmann,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Spatiotemporal patterns of sub-threshold oscillatory activity in the inferior convexity of the macaque prefrontal cortex
Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos,
Ph.D.,
Biological Cybernetics,
Max Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Multi-Dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Arbitrary Nodes
Professor Dongbin Xiu,
Department of Mathematics, and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute,
Unversity of Utah,
Friday, November 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Market Equilibrium: Complementary Pivot Algorithms and How They Led to a New Class of Utility Functions
Vijay Vazirani,
School of Computer Science,
Georgia Tech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling of Chemically Reacting, Nonequilibrium Flows Using Particle Approaches
Deborah Levin,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 18th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Stability
Professor Bin Yu,
Departments of Statistics and EECS,
University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Topic to be announced.
Bin Yu,
Chancellor's Professor,
Statistics / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
From the jungle to telemedicine: towards integration and translation in cognitive neurosciences
Ricardo Gil da Costa,
SALK Institute,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Reservoir Modeling and Simulation with Uncertainty
Xiao-Huo Wu,
Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Watching the wave function collapse: observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting qubit
Kater Murch,
Department of Physics,
Washington University, St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Energetically Consistent Sub-Grid Eddy Parameterizations for Eddy-Permitting Ocean Models
Malte Jansen,
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow,
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Learning the Learning Rate: How to Repair Bayes When the Model is Wrong
Professor Peter Grünwald,
CWI Amsterdam & Leiden University ,
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Micro-Deformation Mechanisms of Particle-Filled Magnetorheological Elastomers: Experiments, Theory and Numerics
Kostas Danas,
Research Assistant Professor,
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides,
LMS, Ecole Polytechnique,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Complexity of Nash Equilibria as Revealed by Data
Siddharth Barman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Generation of Stress in the Storage Particles of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Robert McMeeking,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Structural Materials,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Saturday, November 23rd, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 24th, 2013
3:30pm
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Monday, November 25th, 2013
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The cross-linguistic prevalence of SOV and SVO word orders reflects the sequential and hierarchical representation of action in Broca's area
David Kemmerer,
Professor,
SLHS Department,
Purdue University,