Seminars
April 2019
Monday, April 1st, 2019
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PhD Thesis Defense
Decoding the Past
Siddharth Jain,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Seven Deadly Sins of Aircraft Design
Barnaby Wainfan,
Technical Fellow for Aerodynamics Design,
Northrop Grumman Corporation,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Adventures with carbon monoxide: Space-based constraints on the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere
Dylan Jones,
University of Toronto,
5:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Learning in Human-Robot Interaction: Optimization as an Inductive Bias
Anca Dragan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, April 5th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
"Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate"
Jon Kindem,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Multi-contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography: Seeing through small-animal wholebody and whole brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
Lei Li,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Charged Particle Dynamics of Advanced Space Propulsion
Richard Wirz,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Monday, April 8th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ken Nakayama,
Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
TBA
Hongyao MA,
Graduate Student,
Economics and Computation,
Harvard,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
3:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar - Special Event with Condensed Matter Physics
Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Jonathan Simon,
Associate Professor of Physics & The James Franck Institute, and IME Fellow,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dual-Comb Spectroscopy for Open-Path Atmospheric Gas Measurements
Nathan Newbury,
National Institute of Standards & Technology,
4:00pm
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Intergranular Strain Localization Patterns in Extremely Anisotropic Polycrystalline Aggregates of Magnesium
C. Can Aydıner,
Visiting Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Metasurfaces: beyond diffractive and refractive optics
Ehsan Arbabi,
Graduae Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Special Seminar
Statistical Guarantees for the Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems
Richard Nickl,
Professor of Mathematical Statistics,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
Xiao-Gang Wen,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS
Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
Katherine (Katie) Bouman,
Visiting Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, April 13th, 2019
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 15th, 2019
11:00am
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CDS Special Seminar
Material barriers to diffusive and stochastic transport
George Haller,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Role of Information and Learning in Bayesian Routing Games
Saurabh Amin,
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Automated Data Summarization for Scalability in Bayesian Machine Learning
Tamara Broderick,
Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT,
EECS,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Observing the evolution of the Earth's carbon cycle from space
Anthony Bloom,
JPL,
4:00pm
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Thursday, April 18th, 2019
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Architected Materials for Adaptive Energy Absorption and Bioinspired Self-Adaptable Materials
Sung Hoon Kang,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Hopkins Extreme Materials,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Zhenan Bao
Skin-Inspired Polymer Electronic Materials and Devices
Zhenan Bao, Ph.D., K.K. Lee Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering,
By courtesy Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering,
Director, Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR),
Stanford University,
Friday, April 19th, 2019
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Hechen Ren,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Natural Features: Artists, Architects, and Scientists Imagine Space
Lize Mogel,
Artist and Counter-Cartographer,
Jeff Stuart,
Mission Design & Navigation Systems Engineer,
JPL,
Dilip da Cunha,
Architect and Planner; Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Adjunct Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hairy Hydrodynamics
Peko Hosoi,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, April 20th, 2019
11:30am
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Monday, April 22nd, 2019
1:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Approaching Moons in Chaotic Environments with Applications to Europa Lander
Rodney L. Anderson,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture: The California Experience Goes Global with Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
The California Experience Goes Global
Terry Tamminen,
CEO,
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
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