Seminars
October 2014
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
10:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Photonic crystal cavities for nonlinear optics
Sonia Buckley,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
High Energy Density Solids from Extreme Conditions
Choong-Shik Yoo,
Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and Institute for Shock Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Washington State University,
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermal Energy Transport and Conversion in Nanostructures
Renkun Chen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum networks with spins in diamond: From remote entanglement to unconditional quantum teleportation
Hannes Bernien,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft, Netherlands,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs of Proximity with Zero-Knowledge
Mor Weiss,
Technion,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Operating Rooms of the Past, Present and Future: Translating Engineering into Progress"
Yuman Fong, MD,
Professor of Surgery and Chair,
Department of Surgery,
City of Hope National Medical Center,
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Plasma Stabilization of a Low Reynolds Number Channel Flow
Rodney Bowersox,
Professor and Department Head,
Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
John Harter,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
10:00am
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Resnick Fellows Seminar
Two Seminars: Better Enzymes for Biofuels and Green Chemistry--Solving the Cofactor Imbalance Problem & Model Complexes for Studying Heterometallic Effects Relevant to Fuel Cell Chemistry
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why do plants grow where and when they grow?
Kyla M. Dahlin,
ASP Postdoctoral Fellow,
Climate & Global Dynamics Division, Terrestrial Sciences,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Rosetta – A Lesson on Comets, the Solar System and Mysteries of Earth
Art Chmielewski,
Manager, U.S. Rosetta Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, October 10th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Coherent Lagrangian Vortices in Unsteady Continua
George Haller,
Prof. Dr.,
Nonlinear Dynamics,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity
Georgios Piliouras,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Complex Rocking Response of Large Statues atop Ancient Multispondyle Columns Under Ground Motion: A Genious & Challenging Structural System
Anthony Kounadis,
Professor Emeritus,
Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems
Noravee Kanchanavatee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Maple Group,
Univ of California, San Diego,
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)
Rosetta – A Lesson on Comets, the Solar System and Mysteries of Earth
Art Chmielewski,
Manager, U.S. Rosetta Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Monday, October 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Synthesis of Contact-Rich Behaviors with Optimal Control
Professor Emo Todorov,
Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks
Jordan Boyd-Graber,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Yi-Chen Huang,
IQIM,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
J. E. Bowers,
University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biogenic reactive oxygen species in the cycling and mineralization of manganese
Colleen Hansel,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Average-case tightness of semidefinite relaxations of maximum likelihood estimation problems
Afonso Bandeira,
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Princeton University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 16th, 2014
11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Multi-phase Rarefied Plumes into Space: Examples of Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Io and Saturn's Moon Enceladus
David Goldstein,
Professor,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Lecture in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution
Christos H. Papadimitriou,
C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 17th, 2014
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GALCIT Colloquium
Living Fluids: Modeling and Simulation of Active Suspensions
David Saintillan,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
MIT,
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, October 20th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Linear Genetics: (the Linear Algebra of) Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies
Professor Lior Pachter,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California at Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Real Data Science @ NASA
Chris Mattmann,
Chief Architect,
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-scale Observational Constraints on GPP in Earth System Models using Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide
Elliott Campbell,
Associate Professor,
Department of Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Merced,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Complexify Biomimetics
Filipe Natalio,
Group Leader of Bioinorganic & Biomimetic Chemistry,
Chemie, Physik und Mathematik,
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg,
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling and Computational Challenges for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion Systems
Suresh Menon,
Professor,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
Friday, October 24th, 2014
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Masayuki Okano,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Attosecond Electron Control
Mohammed Tharwat Hassan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Zewail group,
Caltech,
Monday, October 27th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Implementing Probabilistic Graphical Models with Chemical Reaction Networks
Ryan P. Adams,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can I Take a Peek? Continuous Monitoring of Online A/B Tests
Professor Ramesh Johari,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Understanding Opinions and Preferences in Product Networks
Julian McAuley,
Assistant Professor,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Optical Communication and Quantum Optics
Matt Shaw,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Nash Codes for Noisy Channels
Bernhard von Stengel,
Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
8:00am
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Analysis and Design of Optimization Algorithms via Integral Quadratic Constraints
Laurent Lessard,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Berkeley Center for Control and Identification,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming
Angie Pendergrass,
ASP Postdoctoral Fellow,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,