Seminars
April 2017
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
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EE Special Seminar
Interferometric Vibration Sensing for Biomedical Applications and Nanostructures
Christian Rembe,
Professor of Applied Metrology,
Technische Universität Clausthal,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Experimenting with Legitimacy: How Leaders' Choices about Group Profiling and Error Reduction Affect Compliance
Greg Huber,
Professor of Political Science,
Yale University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
The Transport of Heat by Charge Carriers, Lattice Vibrations, and Spin Waves in Complex Materials
Annie Weathers,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Cover's Open Problem: "The Capacity of the Relay Channel"
Ayfer Ozgur Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climatic teleconnections during the last ice age: postcards and text messages from the North Atlantic
Christo Buizert,
Assistant Professor,
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences,
Oregon State University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 20th, 2017
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Physics-Based Approaches to Model Form Uncertainty Quantification for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
Michael E. Mueller,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Bryan Hunter & Postdoctoral Scholar Zhu Liu Ph.D.
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, April 21st, 2017
8:00am
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Dennice Gayme,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Breaking Lorentz Reciprocity: From Physics to New Wireless Communication Paradigms
Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Negar Reiskarimian,
PhD candidate ,
Electrical Engineering ,
Columbia University.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2017
8:00am
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11:00am
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
The James Webb Space Telescope; Its Mission, Design and Development
Jonathan Arenberg,
Chief Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope and Space Science Missions,
Northrop Grumman,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Using Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Deep Neural Networks to Uncover Principles of Brain Representation and Organization
Daniel L.K. Yamins,
Assistant Professor ,
Psychology and Computer Science,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Impact of Deep Neural Networks and One of Its Mobile Applications
Charles Fan,
CTO of Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM),
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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EE Systems Seminar
Measurement-dependent Noisy Search: An Information Acquisition Approach
Tara Javidi,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Electroactive biofilms - key characteristics and applications
Korneel Rabaey,
Professor,
Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology,
Ghent University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Universal avalanche statistics across 16 decades in length: From nanocrystals (and neurons) to earthquakes and stars
Karin Dahmen,
Professor,
Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Carbon-based nanomaterials: from combustion nanoparticles to chiral nanomaterials"
Angela Violi,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Biophysics Program,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise
Andrei Shkel,
Prof.,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Building Science: Multiple Agendas
Thom Mayne,
Architect and Design Director,
Morphosis,
Friday, April 28th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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EE Special Seminar
Real-time Biosensors for Continuous Measurements of Specific Biomolecules in Live Animals
H. Tom Soh,
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering & Department of Radiology,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Integrating the Design of Structure, Control, and Signal Processing
Robert Skelton,
Research Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Plasmonics for Chemistry: Sensing and controlling chemical reactions using plasmons
Andrea Baldi,
PhD,
Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
Ioana Craiciu,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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11:00pm
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