Seminars
May 2016
Ongoing
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5/3
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Sunday, May 1st, 2016
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS & CNS Seminar
The brain architecture of embodied action: The Distributed Adaptive Control Theory of decisions at a choice point
Paul F.M.J. Verschure,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Illuminating the cortical circuits underlying decision making
Karel Svoboda,
Group Leader,
HHMI - Janelia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian inference and the low-dimensional structure of measure transport
Professor Youssef Marzouk,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Numerical Simulations of Droplet Aerobreakup
Jomela Meng,
Numerical Simulations of Droplet Aerobreakup,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Decision making at scale: Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Platforms
Ashish Goel,
Professor,
Departments of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Terahertz Driven Linear Acceleration and X-ray Sources
Franz X. Kartner,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 2 of 2)
Anand Kumar Narayanan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
9:30am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using Clumped Isotopes to Determine the Origins of Arctic Methane Point-Source Emissions
Peter Douglas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Anomalous Liquids: Common features of Water, Metallic glassformers, and Chalcogenide PCMs (Phase Change Materials)
Austen Angell,
Regents’ Professor ,
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department,
Arizona State University,
Thursday, May 5th, 2016
4:00pm
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2016 David Goodwin Memorial Lecture
"Materials and Devices for Efficient Solar and Thermal Energy Utilization"
Gang Chen,
Department Chair and Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 6th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Fast distance product of bounded difference matrices with applications to language edit distance and RNA folding
Virginia Vassilevska Williams,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Thesis Defense: Mixing, Chemical Reactions, and Combustion in Supersonic Flows
Niccolo Cymbalist,
PhD Candidate ,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms underlying Economic Choice
Gideon Nave,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Real-Time Load-Side Control of Electric Power Systems
Changhong Zhao,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 7th, 2016
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 8th, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 9th, 2016
8:00am
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9:00am
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Computational Biology in Translational Cancer Research
Xiaole Shirley Liu,
Professor,
Biostatistics and Computational Biology,
Harvard School of Public Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Collaboration opportunities with NASA Langley Research Center
Steven Reznick,
Dr.,
GALCIT,
NASA,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Operator scaling and applications to non-commutative rational identity testing
Ankit Garg,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Investigation of methane sources in the Netherlands and in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf with isotope measurements
Thomas Röckmann,
Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry,
Utrecht University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Control Thermal Radiation with Nanophotonic Structures
Shanhui Fan,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
10:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Quantum of Vision: the speed vs accuracy tradeoff in visual recognition
Bo Chen,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"M -2.5 to M -8 Laboratory-Generated Earthquakes Recorded From Calibrated Rock Deformation Experiments"
Gregory McLaskey,
Professor,
Cornell University,
Friday, May 13th, 2016
8:00am
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Using data to Inform, Drive and Scale STEM Instructional Reform
Marco Molinaro,
Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Effectiveness,
Student Success Through Evidence-Based Actions,
University of California, Davis,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument
Molly Roberts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
8:00am
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9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Shock wave propagation in composites and electro-thermomechanical coupling of ferroelectric materialsExploring thermal phonon transport from atomic to macroscopic scales for energy conversion and management
Chengyun Hua,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Earthquakes, Landslides, Floods: Non-Steady-State C, Fe, S Diagenesis in Coastal Marine Sediments
Will Berelson,
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A Quantum of Light for Materials Science: Merging QED and TDDFT
Angel Rubio,
Director,
Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
Max Planck Institute ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Limiting Spectrum of Random Kernel Matrices
Xiuyuan Cheng,
Gibbs Assistant Professor,
Applied Mathematics,
Yale University,
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Carbon-based nanomaterials: from combustion nanoparticles to chiral"
(CANCELLED) Angela Violi,
Professor,
Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biophysics,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Scenery Reconstruction
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Speaker
Optical Microscopy Techniques for Mapping the Brain Connectome with Nanoscale Resolution
Emmanouil Karagiannis, Ph.D.,
Research Scientist,
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Medial Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary
Sara Hendren,
Artist, Design Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design,
Olin College of Engineering,
Ken Pickar,
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Fire and Ice...and Methane—Exploring Mars and Titan using laboratory and field analogues on Earth
Morgan Cable,
Assistant Project Science Systems Engineer, Cassini Mission and Technologist, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section,
JPL,
Friday, May 20th, 2016
9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Shock wave propagation in composites and electro-thermomechanical coupling of ferroelectric materials
Vinamra Agrawal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
9:00am
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5:30pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High temperature mechanical performance of metallic and metal-ceramic nanoscale multilayers
Javier LLorca,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science,
Polytechnic University of Madrid,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Spectrahedral lifts of polytopes, sums of squares, and quantum information
James Lee,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Approaching the complexity of combustion kinetic models through chemical time scale investigations
Benjamin Akih-Kumgeh,
Assistant Professor,
Engineering & Computer Science,
Syracuse University,