Seminars
November 2015
Ongoing
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11/3
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Sunday, November 1st, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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12:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Fundamentals of Optical Frequency Comb Technology and Applications
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Fast Solvers for the High-Frequency Helmholtz Equation
Assistant Professor Leonardo Andrés Zepeda Núñez,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Coding Techniques for Emerging DNA-Based Storage Systems
Professor Olgica Milenkovic,
ECE Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Algorithms in nature
Saket Navlakha,
Assistant Professor,
Integrative Biology Laboratory,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma that assures Semantic Security in Wiretap Channels
Paul Cuff,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Mechanistic Insights into the Base Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia -AND- Cytochrome P450-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer: A Platform for Green Amination Chemistry
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean turbulence: from micro scale to large scale circulation
Ali Mashayek,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Materials for Energy Applications
Marco Bernardi,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Light, Atomic Clocks, and Testing Einstein's Assumptions
Dr. John L. Hall,
JILA, University of Colorado and NIST,
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Triumph of Control Theory: How Hybrid System Models and Nonlinear Control Realized Efficient Dynamic Walking on the Humanoid Robot DURUS
Aaron Ames,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Speaker
MEMS, a Perspective from Berkeley
Richard S. Muller,
Professor,
Director of Dept. of EECS, BSAC ,
University of California - Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Juno Mission to Jupiter
Steven Levin,
Project Scientist,
JUNO,
JPL,
Friday, November 6th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Scheduling in Hadoop clusters: Novel algorithms, state space collapse and delay minimization in heavy traffic
Yi Lu,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Constrained Trajectory Optimization from Formula 1 Racing to Hypersonic Vehicles
Timothy Jorris,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics & California State University, Long Beach ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Opportunities and Challenges for Photonics in Next-Generation Data Centers
Clint Schow,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
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 Juno Mission to Jupiter
Steven Levin,
Project Scientist,
JUNO,
JPL,
Monday, November 9th, 2015
9:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Frequency Regulation, Energy Trading, and Load Scheduling in Smart Grid
Vincent Wong,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mixing Light and Sound in Nanophotonic Circuits
Peter T. Rakich,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Faster Convex Optimization: Simulated Annealing with an Efficient Universal Barrier
Professor Elad Hazan,
Department of Computer Science,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Energy Efficient Design: From Computing To Biomedical Devices
Azita Emami,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Civil Engineering Seminar
Brighton i360 Tower Dynamics & Damping 2006 – 2015
Max Irvine,
Professor Emeritus,
University of New South Wales,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Physics of Atmospheric Instability, Lightning, and Global Warming
David Romps,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science ,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Multiple Phonon Scattering at Proximal Interfaces
Pawel Keblinski,
Materials Science and Engineering Department ,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
Thursday, November 12th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Topological Methods in Robot Motion Planning
Subhrajit Bhattacharya,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics ,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, November 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 1 of 2
Gil Cohen,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
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
Creating Giant Reconfigurable Space Systems Using Thousands of Spacecraft: Guidance & Control Perspectives
Soon-Jo Chung,
Associate Professor,
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
The quenched-induced geometric Hall response
Justin Wilson,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Introduction to Radio Astronomy
IEEE MTT-S, Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Sander Weinreb,
Sr. Faculty Associate,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Saturday, November 14th, 2015
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 16th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
The Application of Cryogenic Rare Earth Ion Dopants for Quantum Information and Biomedical Imaging
Jevon Longdell,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Physics,
University of Otago, New Zealand,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Chaos in a Bottle: Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Population Dynamics
Robert Desharnais,
Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
California State University, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Giant planet polar cyclones: lessons from terrestrial hurricanes
Morgan O'Neill,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Strongly Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions using Plasmonic Nanocavities
Maiken Mikkelsen,
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering and Assistant Professor of Physics,
Duke University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Ultrafast Spectroscopy for Energy Research
Xianfan Xu,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Complex Polynomial Optimization and its Application to Power Systems
Cédric Josz,
Applied Mathematics,
Paris VI University,
Friday, November 20th, 2015
8:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Spacecraft Optical Navigation using a Planet's Lit Horizon
John Christian,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
West Virginia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator' photonic crystal waveguide
Jonathan Hood,
Graduate Student,
Kimble Group,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 23rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
A New Perspective to Synchronization in Networks of Coupled Oscillators: Reverse Engineering and Convex Relaxation
Lijun Chen,
University of Colorado at Boulder,