Seminars
May 2015
Ongoing
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Friday, May 1st, 2015
12:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Set membership with two bit probes
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan,
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TBC),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Prosthetic heart valves: ideas for improvement
Roberto Zenit,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules
James Douglas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics,
ICFO, Barcelona,
Saturday, May 2nd, 2015
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Shock Wave Behavior of Particulate Composites
Michael Rauls,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Do Online Social Networks Increase Welfare?
Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Recovery from Linear Measurements via Denoising and Approximate Message Passing
Dror Baron,
Assistant Professor,
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
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,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Advanced Detectors, Systems & Nanoscience,
JPL,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Experimental Study on Inertial Effects in Liquid-Solid Flows
Esperanza Linares,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving Discrepancies in High Global Warming Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Atmospheric Measurements
Ray Weiss,
Distinguished Research Professor of Geochemistry,
Department of Geosciences Research,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
John M. Logsdon,
Professor Emeritus ,
Political Science and International Affairs,
George Washington University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 7th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Jamming, Flow, and Fluctuations for Granular Materials
Robert Behringer,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Fundamental Trade-offs in Primal-Dual Optimization
Volkan Cevher,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne ,
Friday, May 8th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system
Scott Geraedts,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,
Monday, May 11th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Precision Landing for SpaceX's Reusable Rockets
Lars Blackmore,
Dr.,
SpaceX,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Genetic dissection of visual circuits for sensing direction
Andrew Huberman,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Neurosciences,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning
Professor Richard G. Baraniuk,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Founder and Director, OpenStax ,
Rice University,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Democratizing 3D Human Capture: Getting Hairy!
Hao Li,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
1:30pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Braced Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations
Ramses Mourhatch,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Plant waxes as environmental proxies in the tropics
Sarah J. Feakins,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Ultra-hot and Ultra-thin Microstructures
Igor Bargatin,
Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM),
Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, May 14th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials
Zachary Aitken,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Breaking Ground – Mechanics of Variably Saturated Crushable Soils for Natural Hazard Assessment
Giuseppe Buscarnera,
Assistant Professor,
Departmnet of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System
Rosaly M. C. Lopes,
Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, May 15th, 2015
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations
Hemanth Siriki,
Ph.D.,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Kolmogorov width of discrete linear spaces: an approach to matrix rigidity
Sergey Yekhanin,
Microsoft Research,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Ryan Mishmash,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Monday, May 18th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Space Technology: Investments in our Future
Robert Braun,
Dr. ,
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Single Engineered Donor Atoms with Nuclear and Electron Spin Readout for Quantum Bits
David N. Jamieson,
Professor of Physics,
Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Toppling Analysis of Precariously Balanced Rocks under Earthquake Excitation
Swetha Veeraraghavan,
Ph.D.,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Gaurav Sukhatme,
Professor and Chairman,
Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate and Conflict
Mark A. Cane,
G. Unger Vetlesen Professor Of Earth and Climate Sciences,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials in 2-dimension and Beyond: 10 Years After Graphene
Philip Kim,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bubbles, Bubbly Flows and Pseudo-Turbulence
Roberto Zenit,
Professor,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Search for Planets, Habitability, and Life in our Galaxy
Nick Siegler,
Technology Manager,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Advances and challenges in first-principles simulations of materials at extreme conditions
Igor A. Abrikosov,
Professor,
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM),
Linköping University, Sweden,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling
Yonggang Huang,
Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Quantum Matter: From Superfluids to Low-Dimensional Electrons
Johannes Pollanen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein 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)
The Search for Planets, Habitability, and Life in our Galaxy
Nick Siegler,
Technology Manager,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Monday, May 25th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Development of an ensemble-based, triggerable single photon source
Kate Ferguson,
Research School of Physics & Engineering, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences,
Australian National University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Security of Logic and Logic of Security: Protecting Content and Devices in the Pervasive Computing Era
Farinaz Koushanfar,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rice University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Caltech OSA Student Chapter & the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science
X-ray Lasers: From Star Wars to the Table-Top
Joseph Nilsen,
Physicist, Fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,