Seminars
March 2016
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Small scale turbulence in high Karlovitz number premixed flames
Brock Bobbitt,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Larry Abbott - Special Seminar in Computational Neuroscience
Sense from Randomness in Neural Circuits
Larry Abbott,
William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience,
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A hidden mode of decadal ocean variability
Georgy Manucharyan,
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
8:00am
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3/16
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Micro/Nano Acoustofluidics"
James Friend,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Two Talks: The Commelec Framework // Load-Flow Problem in Distribution Networks: Local Existence and Uniqueness, Novel Fixed-Point-Based Solution Method with Linear Complexity Per Iteration, and Applications for Real-Time Control
Andrey Bernstein,
EPFL, Switzerland,
Niek J. Bouman,
EPFL, Switzerland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
What Does Freedom Looks Like? How LGBTQI Activists are Fighting for Social Change Around the World and What We Do To Support Them
Naomi Sobel,
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice,
Friday, March 4th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optomechanical, vibrational and thermal properties of graphene nanoresonators
Cornelia Schwarz,
Institut Néel, CNRS,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Counting with Symmetry for Structural Mechanics
Simon Guest,
Reader in Structural Mechanics,
Department of Engineering ,
University of Cambridge,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, March 7th, 2016
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
International Women's Day Celebration and Photography Opening Lunch Reception
Azita Emami,
Professor of Electrical Engineering ,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Simona Bordani,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Atomic-Layer Semiconducting Crystals for Emerging 2D Devices and Nanosystems
Philip Feng,
Assistant Professor,
Case School of Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University,
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Bacteria as electrochemical catalysts
Sarah Glaven,
Research Biologist,
Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering,
United States Naval Research Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, March 10th, 2016
8:00am
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3/13
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea
Alberto Pepe,
Co-founder of Authorea,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Small is Different: Accelerating Innovation in Microrobotics through Biology"
Nick Gravish,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Microbiotics Lab,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
ARPA-E: Opportunities for Students and Faculty and an Overview of its Portfolio
David Brown, PhD,
Fellow,
ARPA-E,
Isik C. Kizilyalli, PhD,
Program Director,
ARPA-E,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
Her Story: a 6-episode new-media series that looks inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Saturday, March 12th, 2016
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, March 14th, 2016
8:00am
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3/16
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Thursday, March 17th, 2016
8:00am
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3/27
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
Interactive Modelling of Search Intent for Exploratory Search
Antti Kangasrääsiö,
Aalto University, Finland,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Towards greater autonomy in small flying vehicles: multicopter actuator failsafe, fast trajectory generation, and state estimation
Mark Müller,
PhD Candidate,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, March 21st, 2016
9:00am
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9:00am
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Women's History Month Event
LGBTQ Meet and Greet with Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi
Carolyn Bertozzi,
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology at Stanford Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator,
Stanford,
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 24th, 2016
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
In the Blink of the Eye: What 10 Years at Mars Can Tell Us About the Planet
Leslie Tamppari,
MRO Deputy Project Scientist,
Friday, March 25th, 2016
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)
In the Blink of the Eye: What 10 Years at Mars Can Tell Us About the Planet
Leslie Tamppari,
MRO Deputy Project Scientist,
Monday, March 28th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Panel: Creating an Organization Where Both Men and Women can Thrive
Susan Murphy,
Author and Management Consultant,
Beverley McKeon,
GALCIT Associate Director,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Robert Papppalardo,
EUROPA Project Scientist,
JPL,
Serina Diniega,
Scientist/System Engineer,
JPL,
Cinzia Zuffada,
Moderator of the Panel and Associate Chief Scientist ,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 1 of 2)
Hu Fu,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
The Dark Side of Artificial Photosynthesis
Manny Soriaga,
Visiting Faculty Associate and Principal Investigator ,
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 31st, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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(CANCELLED) - Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
(CANCELLED) Allen Fuhs,
Distinguished Professor (Emeritus),
Naval Postgraduate School,