Seminars
October 2016
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
What is Exploration Telepresence and How Can it Help Us Explore Planetary Surfaces of the Solar System?
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration
Marina Azzimonti,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss
Why Social Justice?
Hanna Song,
Senior Director for Diversity,
Office of the Probost,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives
Ashish Khisti,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global climate impacts of fixing large long-standing shortwave radiation biases in the Community Earth System Model
Jennifer E. Kay,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Flat and Conformal Optics with Dielectric Metasurfaces
Andrei Faraon,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics,
Applied Physics and Materials Science Department,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Phonon spectroscopy and thermal transport using predictive atomistic simulations"
Xiulin Ruan,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar
Implantable Biomedical Microsystems: Permanent and Biodegradable Devices
Dr. Mark Allen,
Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering/Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering ,
Friday, October 7th, 2016
10:00am
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GALCIT Colloquium
Computational Modeling and Experimental Characterization of the Damage and Fracturing Behavior of Textile Composites for Large Aeronautical Structures
Marco Salviato,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics
Liyuan Zhao,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, October 10th, 2016
12:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Secure State-Estimation and Control for Dynamical Systems Under Adversarial Attacks
Professor Paulo Tabuada,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Los Angeles,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
12:00pm
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Arun Viswanathan,
The New Space Race: Cyber Security for Space Missions,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
Jeremy Pecharich,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonic Quantum Networks in Diamond
Alp Sipahigil,
Senior Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Catalysis and Chemical Mechanisms of Calcite Dissolution in Seawater
Adam Subhas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Impact of Defects on Efficiency of Light Emitters
Chris van de Walle,
Professor of Materials Science and the Herbert Kroemer Chair in Materials Science,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Enabling large eddy simulations of realistic turbulent flows"
Johan Larsson,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
From algorithms to lower bounds and back via the statistical query complexity
Vitaly Feldman,
IBM Research Almaden ,
Friday, October 14th, 2016
8:00am
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GALCIT Colloquium
Compliance and Instability in Hierarchical Structures: from morphing wings to metamaterials
Andres Arrieta,
Purdue University,
Saturday, October 15th, 2016
4:00pm
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Monday, October 17th, 2016
12:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Difference-of-Convex Programming
Professor Jong-Shi Pang,
Viterbi School of Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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From Pixels to Depth: Learning to Predict Shape from a Single Photograph
Oisin Mac Aodh,
Postdoc in Pietro Perona's Computational Vision Lab,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Cody Finke & Resnick Postdoctoral Scholar Justin Jasper
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Hotter Droughts" and the fate of Tropical Forests
Sassan Saatchi,
Senior Scientist,
Carbon Cycle Science Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Where Does the Entropy of Materials Come From?
Brent Fultz,
Barbara and Stanley Rawn, Jr., Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics,
Applied Physics and Materials Science Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Thursday, October 20th, 2016
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Realistic grain shapes in the discrete element method with dilated polyhedral"
Christopher Senseney,
Professor - Lt. Col.,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
US Air Force Academy,
12:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Asteroid Anchors, Rock Climbing Robots, Gecko Grippers, and Other Ways to Stick in Space
Aaron Parness,
Extreme Environment Robotics Group,
JPL,
Friday, October 21st, 2016
8:00am
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6:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Microscale "Turbulence" induced by Electrochemical Interfaces
Ali Mani,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects
Alon Ron,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
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)
Asteroid Anchors, Rock Climbing Robots, Gecko Grippers, and Other Ways to Stick in Space
Aaron Parness,
Extreme Environment Robotics Group,
JPL,
Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
5:30pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Next Generation Computer Simulations for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Electromagnetic Applications
Professor Jin-Fa Lee,
ElectroScience Lab., ECE Dept. College of Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
12:00pm
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How Bitcoin enables a Machine-Payable Web
Balaji S. Srinivasan,
CEO of 21.co and a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.,