Seminars
April 2015
Monday, April 20th, 2015
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Recent Progress in the Development of Efficient Thermoelectric Materials: The Case of Mg2Si1-xSnx Solid Solutions
Ctirad Uher,
C. Wilbur Peters Collegiate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unraveling yielding in BCC metals from crystal plasticity calculations: A multiscale computational approach fitted to first principles calculations
Jamie Marian,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MedE Special Seminar
Computing with Microfluidics
Elliot Hui,
Assistant Professor ,
Biomedical Engineering ,
University of California, Irvine,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Seminar Title TBA
Roarke Horstmeyer,
Graduate Student,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help
Brett Kennedy,
Supervisor,
Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group,
JPL,
Friday, April 24th, 2015
8:30am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlinear Model Reduction in Computational Mechanics: Local Reduced Bases, Hyper Reduction, and Real-Time Simulations
Charbel Farhat,
Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, Chairman of Department of Aeronautics an dAstronautics,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unfolding the color code
Alex Kubica,
Graduate Student - Preskill Group,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Earth Month Workshop
It's not easy being green, or is it? How to reduce your carbon footprint in academia.
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)
Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help
Brett Kennedy,
Supervisor,
Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group,
JPL,
Saturday, April 25th, 2015
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 27th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Mars 2020 Spacecraft Systems
Matthew Wallace,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Manifolds, maps, and reinforcement learning
Sam Gershman,
Postdoctoral fellow,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Innovate or die
Chris House,
Vice President,
Advanced Concepts and Technology Research,
BlackBerry,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Solar Geoengineering and Climate Risks
Douglas MacMartin,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in climate and ITCZ migrations
John Marshall,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography,
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
High Efficiency Lanthanide-based Thermoelectric Materials for Space Power Generation Applications
Sabah Bux,
Technologist,
Thermal Energy Conversion Technologies Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Control: How cilia-generated flows affect bacteria-host associations
Eva Adnan Kanso,
Associate Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Reverse Mechanism Design
Nima Haghpanah,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT,