Seminars
May 2014
Ongoing
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5/6
5:00pm
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Thursday, May 1st, 2014
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Theory and Applications of Bacterial Surface Polarizability
Cullen Buie,
Assistant Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction
Charles R. Plott,
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2014
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Next: Breakthrough Technologies for National Security
Arati Prabhakar,
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The physiological consequences of altering stomatal developent in plants -- lessons from Arabidopsis
Graham Dow,
NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Aseismic Slip and Seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Stimulation of Geological Faults
Frederic Cappa,
Associate Professor,
Geoazur Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory,
University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis,
Friday, May 9th, 2014
9:00am
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3:00pm
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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
The Art of Optimizing via Simulations: Empirical Dynamic Programming
Rahul Jain,
Associate Professor, Kenneth C. Dahlberg Early Career Chair,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Paco A. Lagerstrom Lecture
The Interplay of the Concrete and General: from Mathematics to the Brain
Athanassios S. Fokas,
Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
Saturday, May 10th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, May 12th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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4:00pm
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Cancelled - CNS Seminar
Cancelled
Nicole Rust,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Michelle Effros,
George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Michelle Effros,
George Van Osdol Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New perspectives on the ocean's role in transient climate change
Kyle Armour,
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Advanced semiconductor devices: from nanotechnology-based photovoltaics to infrared thermal sensing
Dr. Giacomo Mariani,
Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, May 15th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Interaction of a Mach 2.25 Turbulent Boundary Layer with Elastic Panels using Direct Numerical Simulation
Daniel Bodony,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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MedE Seminar
"Vascular Surgery: More than just glorified plumbing and pipes?"
Jason T. Lee, MD,
Associate Professor of Surgery,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Friday, May 16th, 2014
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
Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows
Ketan Savla,
Assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Advancing EDL Technologies for Future Space Missions: From Ground Testing Facilities to Ablative Heatshields
Jason Rabinovitch,
Graduate Student,
Aeronautics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems
Tony Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular nad Optical Physics (ITAMP),
Harvard University,
Monday, May 19th, 2014
8:15am
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12:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Multi-Functional Energy Projecting Systems for Planetary Exploration
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Banach Space Projections and Petrov-Galerkin Estimates
Ari Stern,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
How to Create a Perfect Microscope by Adding a Computer
Changhuei Yang,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Medical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Earth system response to massive carbon release: Atmospheric CO2, climate sensitivity, and ocean chemistry through time
Richard Zeebe,
Professor of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology,
Department of Oceanography,
University of Hawai'i at Manoa,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
8:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Fast Pressure-Correction Method for Simulating Two-Fluid Flows and DNS of Droplet-Laden Isotropic Turbulence
Antonino Ferrante,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MedE Seminar
Calhoun Vision: The Excitement and Perils of Physician Driven Innovation
Dan Schwartz,
MD,
Ophthalmology,
UCSF School of Medicine,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Putting the 'P' in 'JPL'--The Past, Present, and Future of Propulsion at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Todd Barber,
Cassini Propulsion Lead Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Underbidding and Experience and USFS Timber Auctions
Benjamin Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Resolving the Mesoscale Response of Heterogeneous Materials Under Extreme Dynamic Loading Conditions
John Borg,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Marquette University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Transfer-matrix treatment of surface disorder in topological insulator
Kun Woo Kim,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory - Refael Group,
Caltech,
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)
Putting the 'P' in 'JPL'--The Past, Present, and Future of Propulsion at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Todd Barber,
Cassini Propulsion Lead Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, May 24th, 2014
6:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 26th, 2014
8:00am
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