Seminars
April 2016
Friday, April 1st, 2016
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science
Nanophotonics for Tailoring the Flow of Thermal Radiation
Ognjen Ilic,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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• High Enthalpy Hypervelocity Experiments: Bridging the Scales
Susan and James Wu Lecture in Aerospace
Joanna Austin,
Professor of Aerospace,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas,
Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group,
Harvard University,
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Krishna Shankar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky,
ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations
Seyed Madaeni,
Principal,
Energy Storage, Grid Engineering Solutions,
SolarCity,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Hu Fu,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Sources of Methane in the Biogeosphere and Beyond
Frank Keppler,
Professor,
Institute of Earth Sciences,
Heidelberg University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Is Diamond the Best Conductor of Heat?
David Briodo,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Boston College,
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Recent Theoretical and Experimental Progress on Near-Field Thermal Radiation"
Zhuomin Zhang,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: How to Help Someone You Care About
Jenny Mahlum,
Health Educator ,
Counseling Center ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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CD3 Seminar
Off Campus
Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond
Padhraic Smyth,
Director, UCI Data Science Initiative,
Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics,
University of California, Irvine,
Friday, April 8th, 2016
12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Communication Networks and Cybersecurity for Heterogeneous Teams of Robots
Stephanie Gil,
Research Scientist,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Saturday, April 9th, 2016
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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9:00pm
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4/11
12:00am
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Monday, April 11th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar (Special Date)
Control of agile robots in complex environments with formal safety guarantees
Anirudha Majumdar,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Professor Marsha Berger,
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Creating programmable disorder in self-assembled DNA nanostructures
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Conservation Profiles, Functional Enrichment, and the Tree of Life
Benny Chor,
School of Computer Science,
Tel-Aviv University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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A Drunken Trajectory: Tracking Active Matter Systems
Everhart Lecture
Sho Takatori,
Graduate Student - Brady group,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Microscopic Origin of Macroscopic Strength in Granular Media: A Numerical and Analytical Approach
Alex Jerves,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Fast Distributed Algorithm for α-Fair Packing Problems
Jelena Marašević,
Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering - Benefits and Risks
Alan Robock,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Environmental Sciences,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems
Susan Trolier-McKinstry,
Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, Director W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory,
Material Research Institute,
Pennsylvania State University,
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
A new model of stars
David Hogg,
Professor of Physics and Data Science at New York University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Evolution of submarine landslides: Unifying shear band propagation approach"
Alexander Puzrin,
Professor,
Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Redundancy // Admitting More Tenants with Tail Latency SLOs
Kristy Gardner,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Timothy Zhu,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Unsteady aerodynamics and optimal control of an airfoil at low Reynolds number
Jeesoon Choi,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
8:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multiscale experiments and models for advanced materials - a few examples from the Solid Mechanics Lab.
Patrick Le Tallec,
Professor,
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides,
École Polytechnique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides
Alberto de la Torre,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Week Speaker Event
Data Science for Water Sustainability
Noah Olsman,
Graduate Student, Control and Dynamical Systems,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Patrick Atwater,
Project Manager,
initial phase of the California Statewide Data Collaborative,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Subtle Is the noise, but malicious it is not: exploring the dynamic benefits of intracellular randomness
Professor Mustafa Khammash,
Control Theory and Systems Biology, Head, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE),
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ),
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Week Speaker Event
Winnett Lounge
The 21st Century Solar Army
Bryan Hunter,
Caltech Graduate Student, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Spy vs. Spy: Anonymous Messaging over Networks
Giulia Fanti,
Coordinated Science Lab,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Earth Week Speaker Event
Challenges and Opportunities for Renewable Fuel Technologies
John Gregoire,
Thrust 2 Coordinator for Photoelectrocatalysis,
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP),
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How did we get the Water System we have and what are the Implications for Contemporary Water Policy?
Gary Libecap,
Professor of Corporate Environmental Management,
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
How single neuron biophysics influences network function
Adrienne Fairhall,
University of Washington,