Seminars
January 2014
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
11:15am
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12:15pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Spin Transport and Majorana Fermions: Exploiting Spin-Orbit Coupling in Semiconductor Nanowires and Topological Insulators
Vlad Pribiag,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience,
Delft University of Technology,
Monday, January 6th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dopamine, subjective value and decision making
Paul E. M. Phillips,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pharmacology,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
9:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, January 10th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shearing Resistance of Elastomers at Extreme Loading Conditions
Rodney Clifton,
Professor of Engineering,
Brown University,
Monday, January 13th, 2014
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Tracking Influence in Dynamic Social Networks
Rebecca Willett,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Surveillance and Privacy: A Computer Science Perspective
Edward Felten,
Director,
Center for Information Technology Policy,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anthropogenic Aerosol Water: Rediscovering the Importance of Atmospheric Multiphase Chemistry
Annmarie Carlton,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Environmental Sciences,
Rutgers University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploring Mission Concepts with the JPL Innovation Foundry A-Team
John Ziemer,
Concept Innovation Methods Chief,
Innovation Foundry,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 16th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Characterizing the Deformation Signatures of Human Neutrophils in Two and Three-Dimensional Environments
Christian Franck,
Assistant Professor,
School of Engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Photonic generation of ultrastable microwave signals
Scott Diddams,
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration
John Callas,
Project Manager,
Mars Exploration Rover Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, January 17th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Toward Solving Eisenhower's Atomic Dilemma (and Climate Change): A Strategy for U.S. Civil Nuclear Leadership
Victor Reis,
Senior Advisor,
U.S. Department of Energy,
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)
The Mars Exploration Rovers: A Decade of Exploration
John Callas,
Project Manager,
Mars Exploration Rover Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Sunday, January 19th, 2014
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 20th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Molecular Programming with Synthetic Nucleic-Acid Systems
Lulu Qian,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Scaling controls on carbon cycling from organisms to ecosystems: Insights from novel isotopic measurements in temperate forests and thawing permafrost wetlands
Scott Saleska,
Associate Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Conference Lecture
The Next Life of Silicon
Gabriel Aeppli,
Director,
London Centre for Nanotechnology,
Friday, January 24th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:30am
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6:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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James K. Knowles Lecture
Model Reduction in Multiscale Problems Focusing on Polar Ice
Pierre M. Suquet,
Senior Researcher,
National Center of Scientific Research in Marseille,
9:00am
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6:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Model Reduction in Multiscale Problems Focusing on Polar Ice
Pierre M. Suquet,
Senior Researcher,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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4:45pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Information Flows, Technology Bubbles, and Gravity Models
Andrew Odlyzko,
School of Mathematics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Marsh collapse does not require sea level rise
Sergio Fagherazzi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environment,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
G. Jeffrey Snyder,
Faculty Associate,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
G. Jeffrey Snyder,
Faculty Associate,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 30th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High-Level Verifiable Robotics
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Assistant Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
Friday, January 31st, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Large-Eddy Simulations of Fully Developed Turbulent Channel and Pipe Flows with Smooth and Rough Walls
Namiko Saito,
Graduate Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Extracting hidden structure from data: Robust Subspace Clustering and Phase Retrieval
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,