Seminars
October 2015
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
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CANCELLED: Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Slender structures of active materials
CANCELLED - Kaushik Bhattacharya,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flow Stabilization by Crystals
Mahmoud Hussein,
Associate Professor, H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow,
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
11:00am
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10/9
8:00pm
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Monday, October 5th, 2015
9:30am
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3:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Mathematical and Experimental Frameworks to Study Fluctuations in Cells
Professor Johan Paulsson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Water, Satellites and Sustainability: The California Drought, The Global Groundwater Crisis and 21st Century Realities
Jay Famiglietti,
Senior Water Cycle Scientist and JPL Water Initiative Leader,
Department of Earth Science,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 8th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Electrical manipulations of coherent phononic functionalities"
Young-Dahl Jho,
Professor,
School of Information and Communications,
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Unveiling an Alien World: Dawn at Ceres
Carol Raymond,
DAWN Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Friday, October 9th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Construction of Non-equilibrium Hydrodynamic Models for Atmospheric Entry Plasmas
Marco Panesi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR
Andrew Mounce,
Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,
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)
Unveiling an Alien World: Dawn at Ceres
Carol Raymond,
DAWN Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Monday, October 12th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Grid of the Future: Is Distributed Control the Answer?
Sonja Glavaski,
Program Director,
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Next Generation of Polymeric Membranes and Media for Sustainable Water Purification and Resource Recovery
Mamadou S. Diallo,
Associate Professor & Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Systems for Water Sustainability,
Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
In Situ Materials Science: Probing Microstructural Evolution of Metallic Materials in Real-Time
Nik Chawla,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
Jackie Chen,
Sandia National Laboratories, Combustion Research Facility,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Speaker
Presbyopia: The Final Frontier in Vision-Correction Surgery
Daniel Chang,
MD,
Empire Eye & Laser Center,
Friday, October 16th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Rapid, High Quality Hypersonic Mission Design Using Indirect Methods
Michael Grant,
Assistant Professor ,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
Saturday, October 17th, 2015
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 18th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar in Applied & Computational Mathematics
A Hybrid Framework with Analysis for Stochastic Wave Propagation Models
Mahadevan Ganesh,
College of Engineering & Computational Sciences,
Colorado School of Mines,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Sub-Linear Time Algorithms for "Big Data" Recovery Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Professor Kannan Ramchandran,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Coarse-grained representations of information in complex systems
Greg Ver Steeg,
Professor,
Information Sciences Institute,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Discharge in Li-Air Battery
Panagiotis Natsiavas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Charge in Lithium Batteries
Panagiotis Natsiavas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Enabling Large Scale Sustainable Lighting through Efficient Heat Dissipation in LEDs & Controlled Mixing of Fresh Water & Salt Water for Renewable Energy
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Submesoscale turbulence in the upper ocean
Jörn Callies,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Phonon Dynamics in Simple and Complex Materials
Li Shi,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute,
University of Texas,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Theory of Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems with Applications in Energy Systems
Shuo Han,
Electrical & Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Speaker
Rays vs. Shadows: Fighting Global Blindness through Ophthalmic Genetic & Bioengineering
Bala Ambati, MD, PhD, MBA,
Professor & Director, Cornea Research,
Moran Eye Center,
University of Utah,
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
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GALCIT Colloquium
Organization and Evolution of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Boundary Layers
Ellen Longmire,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
Monday, October 26th, 2015
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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