Seminars
April 2015
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Experimental microbial sedimentology: seeing the processes that shaped enigmatic sedimentary structures
Giulio Mariotti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences,
Louisiana State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Mars Helicopter Scout
MiMi Aung,
Autonomous Systems Deputy Division Manager,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hybrid Unsteady-flow Simulation Combining PIV/PTV and DNS: Family of data-assimilation algorithms and their capabilities
Takao Suzuki,
The Boeing Company,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Multi-Resource Allocation: Fairness, Efficiency, and Applications
Carlee Joe-Wong,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MedE Distinguished Speaker Seminar
INNOVATION IN RARE DISEASES IN THE REAL WORLD
James E. Lock,
Cardiologist-in-Chief and Chairman ,
Department of Cardiology ,
Children’s Hospital Boston,
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Instabilities in shear flows: local versus global analyses
Patrick Huerre,
Research director Emeritus (CNRS),
Hydrodynamics Laboratory - LadHyX,
Ecole Polytechnique,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence
Fernando Pastawski,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Monday, April 6th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Interdependency and Reliability of Natural Gas & Power Grid Systems
Misha Chertkov,
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, T-4, Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Towards the Next 40 Years Supersonic Aerodynamic Decelerators: An Overview of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Project
Ian Clark,
Dr.,
Planetary Entry, Descent, and Landing,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrea Bertozzi,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Computational Methods for Mesoscopic Fluid-Structure Interactions Subject to Thermal Fluctuations : Applications in Soft Materials and Microfluidics.
Professor Paul J. Atzberger,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics Department of Mechanical Engineering ,
University of California Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Rights in the online world from the EFF viewpoint, the challenges of privacy and what Edward Snowden has showed us about the new surveillance state
Brad Templeton,
Electronic Frontier Foundation ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Enrique Mallada,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Two talks: The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon: future UV observations of the circumgalactic medium AND High Performance Silicon Detectors for UV/Visible/NIR Applications
Erika T. Hamden,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics,
Caltech,
April D. Jewell,
Advanced Detectors, Systems & Nanoscience,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Two talks: The TIME-Pilot CII Intensity Mapping Experiment - Detectors of Electromagnetic Radiation Based on Superconducting Magnesium Diboride
Abigail Crites,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Keck Institute for Space Studies,
Caltech,
Boris Karasik,
Principal Research Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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Blending Mathematical Models and Data: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications in the Geophysical and Medical Sciences
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrew Stuart,
Warwick University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oceans of Information
Steven Hallam,
CIFAR Scholar and Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
University of British Columbia,
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Geometrical derivation of a set of ODEs of motion for constrained mechanical systems
Sotirios Natsiavas,
Professor,
Aristotle University,
Friday, April 10th, 2015
10:00am
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GALCIT Colloquium
Entry, Descent and Landing Technology Investments Designed to Enable a New Era of Mars Exploration
Robert Braun,
David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology,
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Matter Wave Interferometry in Microgravity - Towards Quantum Sensors in Space
Markus Krutzik,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Communications Architectures and Research ,
JPL,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Sunday, April 12th, 2015
3:30pm
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Monday, April 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Designing Dynamic Contests
Mohamed Mostagir,
Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
From Mars to the Stars: Exploring New Worlds
Louis Friedman,
Dr.,
The Planetary Society,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian Inversion for Large Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow
Professor Omar Ghattas,
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Collective behavior of asperities as a model for friction and adhesion
Srivatsan Hulikal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Month Speaker Event
Climate Change Adaptation
Robert Lempert,
Director,
Pardee RAND Graduate School,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Getting More Women into Tech Careers and Why It Matters
Maria Klawe,
President,
Harvey Mudd College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Enrique Mallada,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Building a Brighter Future: Spectrum-Splitting as a Pathway for >50% Efficiency Solar Cells
Carissa Eisler,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
7:30am
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Thursday, April 16th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermoelectric and spin-thermal solid-state energy conversion
Joseph Heremans,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Ohio State University,
Friday, April 17th, 2015
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unfolding the color code
Alex Kubica,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement detection by interfering quantum many-body twins
Rajibul Islam,
Postdoctoral Fellow - Greiner Group, Rubidium Gas Microscopy,
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Detection of Planted Solutions for Flat Satisfiability Problems
Quentin Berthet,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Molecular-Level Simulations of Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Gases
Michael Gallis,
Engineering Sciences,
Sandia National Laboratories,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
9:00am
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
3:30pm
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Monday, April 20th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Dawn, Asteroid Retrieval and Solar Electric Propulsion
John Brophy,
Dr.,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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JCAP Seminar
In Situ Study of Materials Transformations at the Atomic Level
Haimei Zheng,
Staff Scientist,
Materials Science Division ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Enabling Physics Discoveries, Networking for High Energy Physics and Data Intensive Science
Dorian Kcira,
Research Scientist,
Compact Muon Solenoid group, High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Coarsening of Particle Systems
Professor David Levermore,
Mathematics Department,
University of Maryland, College Park,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Dendrites Inhibition in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries
Asghar Aryanfar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Global Warming be Held to 2 Degrees Celsius above Pre-Industrial?
David Lea,
Professor,
Department of Earth Science,
UC Santa Barbara,