Seminars
January 2016
Monday, January 4th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biomimetic processes for water treatment - CANCELLED
Julie Zilles,
Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, January 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, January 8th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Super-Linear Gate and Super-Quadratic Wire Lower Bounds for Depth-Two and Depth-Three Threshold Circuits
Ryan Williams,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Non-Linear Scale Interactions in a Forced Turbulent Boundary Layer
Subrahmanyam Duvvuri,
Graduate Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories
Anna Komar,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
Sunday, January 10th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
Peng Jiang,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Arithmetic and neural circuits underlying dopamine reward prediction errors
Naoshige Uchida,
Professor,
Center for Brain Science / Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
From Language to the Mind: Learning to Read Deception, Connotation, and Literary Success
Yejin Choi,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron supply to an anemic ocean: Using Fe isotopes to trace global Fe sources
Seth John,
Associate Professor (Research),
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Atomic Packing and Structure-Property Correlations in Amorphous Metals
Evan Ma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Building the First Spaceport in Low Earth Orbit
John Blincow,
Gateway Foundation,
Dr. Thomas R. Spilker,
Retired (JPL),
Thursday, January 14th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Speaker
Innovations in Patient Monitoring: A Masimo Story
Joe Kiani,
Chairman, CEO,
Masimo Corporation,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely,
DSAC Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Allen H Farrington,
DSAC Project Manager,
JPL,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
"A Continuum Model for Slip-Twinning Interactions in Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys"
Yingrui (Ray) Chang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multifield Interactions for Programmable Metamaterials
Massimo Ruzzene,
Professor,
D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering ,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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)
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely,
DSAC Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Allen H. Farrington,
DSAC Project Manager,
Sunday, January 17th, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 18th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Medicine, Math, and Computing
Marie Csete,
President & Chief Scientist,
Huntington Medical Research Institutes,
Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemical Tracers of Particle Dynamics in the Ocean
Phoebe Lam,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Ocean Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Some Recent Opinions in Mechanical Behaviors of Amorphous Solids
Mo Li,
School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 21st, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, January 22nd, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Navigating Chaos: Applications of Dynamical Systems Theory to Astrodynamics and Celestial Mechanics
Natasha Bosanac,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock
Boris Braverman,
Graduate Student,
Vladan Vuletić Group,
MIT,
Monday, January 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Real-Time Bayesian Analysis of Ground Motion Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning
Gokcan Karakus,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Quantum Computing: Transforming the Digital Age
Krysta Svore,
Senior Researcher,
Microsoft Research, Redmond,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
9:00am
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4:00pm
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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
Stochastic dynamical systems and seasonal climate dynamics
Woosok Moon,
Herchel-Smith Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
When Twins Collide: adventures in nanocrystals
David Srolovitz,
Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering and Applied Science,
Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania ,
Thursday, January 28th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Optimal Ergodic Control for Active Search
Dr. Lauren Miller,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Properties and Generalizations of the Moser-Tardos Process
Aravind Srinivasan,
University of Maryland in QuICS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Excess-distortion analysis of lossy compression
Yuval Kochman,
Senior lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent),
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Friday, January 29th, 2016
10:30am
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11:30am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
On Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis and Some Applications
Professor Norden E. Huang,
Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis,
National Central University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Drag reduction and the dynamics of turbulence in simple and complex fluids
Michael Graham,
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Professor,
College of Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Convex Optimization Approaches to Protein Structural Calculation from NMR
Yuehaw Khoo,
Physics and Applied Math,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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10:30pm
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