Seminars
April 2014
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Energy Leadership: Integrating Policies Across Sectors
Catherine Sandoval,
Commissioner,
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Austin Minnich,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
5:30pm
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5:45pm
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Everhart Lecture
A Molecular View of Cancer: Chemically synthesized agents for early detection and screening
Kaycie Deyle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Fracture Driving Force and Energy Dissipation in Li-Si Alloy Battery Electrodes
Min Zhou,
Professor,
The School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Hamid Nazerzadeh,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Spikes and bubbles in turbulent mixing: The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Daniel Livescu,
Fluid Dynamics Team Leader,
Computer and Computational Sciences Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 7th, 2014
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Seminar Title TBA
Paul Dimotakis,
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spatio-Temporal Correlation Mining
Professor Alfred Hero,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
University of Michigan ,
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
In situ constraints on reactive nitrogen cycling at atmospheric interfaces
Timothy Bertram,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
4:00pm
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MedE Seminar
Making waves in biomedical imaging with micro-ultrasound
Stuart Foster,
Senior Scientist- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Canada Research Chair in Ultrasound Imaging,
Professor-Department of Medical Biophysics,
University of Toronto,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
'For the Benefit of All Mankind': The JPL Technology Transfer Program
Indrani Graczyk,
Manager,
Commercial Program Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
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
Size and Temporal Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Nanofibers
Ioannis Chasiotis,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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)
'For the Benefit of All Mankind': The JPL Technology Transfer Program
Indrani Graczyk,
Manager,
Commercial Program Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 13th, 2014
3:30pm
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Monday, April 14th, 2014
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Circuits underlying cortical decisions
Anthony Zador,
Professor,
Biology,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Free Open Lecture
The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes Using Space Observations
Dr. Andrea Donnellan,
Principal Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Mars Code
Gerard Holzmann,
Laboratory for Reliable Software (LaRS),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:30pm
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GSC Graduate Development Workshop
Doing Big Things: Project Management in Graduate School
Charles Elachi,
Director,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Larissa Charnsangavej,
Residential Life Coordinator,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Is there a need for an ice-sheet—ocean observation system?
Knut Christianson,
Postdoctoral Scientist,
Department of Environmental Studies and Physics,
St. Olaf College,
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
9:30am
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Friday, April 18th, 2014
8:00am
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions (joint with Isa Hafalir)
Antonio Miralles,
Assistant Professor,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
The Reach and Relevance of the Indian Space Program
K. Radhakrishnan,
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO),
Saturday, April 19th, 2014
Monday, April 21st, 2014
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Neural circuits for sensing directional motion
Andrew Huberman,
Assistant Professor,
University of California, San Diego,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Statistical Learning and Optimization Based on Comparative Judgements
Robert Nowak,
McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Fred Farina,
Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director,
Office of Technology Transfer,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A metabolic tree of life: from geochemical roots to oceanic ecosystems
Rogier Braakman,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials
Ronaldo Borja,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geological & Environmental Sciences,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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Friday, April 25th, 2014
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GALCIT Colloquium
Theory and Experiments are Strongly Connected in Nonlinear Mechanics
Davide Bigoni,
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics,
Civil, Environmental & Mechanical Engineering,
University of Trento, Italy,