Seminars
May 2016
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
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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10:00am
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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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12:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems
Michael Kolodrubetz,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Berkeley,
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)
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,
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
A Rodent Model of the "Cocktail Party Problem"
Michael DeWeese,
Associate Professor,
Physics & Neuroscience,
University of California Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
10:30am
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11:30am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of chemically active suspensions
Wen Yan,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Data-Driven Design
Ranjitha Kumar,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom,
Principal Scientist (Retired),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural and hormonal systems underlying human reward-seeking behavior
Simon Dunne,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 26th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
(CANCELLED) - "Manufacturing and applications of carbon nanotube surfaces"
(CANCELLED) John Hart,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Spying on Nature As It Moves: New Technologies and Probes for Cellular Imaging
Jay Nadeau,
PhD,
Scientific Researcher, Caltech and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, McGill,
Friday, May 27th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Tunable adhesion of soft elastomers
Kevin Turner,
Gabel Family Term Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE),
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective
Sarang Gopalakrishnan,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Saturday, May 28th, 2016
8:00am
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5/31
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, May 30th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Building the Next Generation Power Grid
Pedro Pizarro, PhD,
President,
Southern California Edison,