Seminars for 2006-2007

Friday September 29, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday October 3, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Discreteness and the Origin of Probability in Quantum Mechanics
Speaker: Stephen Hsu, University of Oregon
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday October 4, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fire and Ice: Dynamics of Climate Variability at High Latitude
Speaker: Peter B. Rhines, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Friday October 6, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reviewing for Journals & Funding Agencies
Speaker: Janet Hering, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday October 11, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Tale of Two Sludges: Metagenomic Analysis of Two Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) Sludge Communities
Speaker: Phil Hugenholtz
Location: 142 Keck
Friday October 13, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday October 17, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optimal Quantum Measurements
Speaker: Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday October 18, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Kissing Butterflies and Chips Bag: Unraveling the Chemistry of Phenazine Biosynthesis
Speaker: Dr. Wulf Blankenfeldt, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
Location: 142 Keck
Friday October 20, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday October 24, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale
Speaker: Paul Goldbart, University of Illinois
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday October 25, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Basis and Consequences of Phenotypic Variation in Vibrio Cholerae
Speaker: Fitnat H. Yildiz, UC Santa Cruz
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday October 31, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum vs. Classical One-Way Communication Complexity
Speaker: Iordanis Kerenidis, CNRS-University of Paris
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday November 3, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 7, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Control of Coupled Spins in a Mesoscopic Environment
Speaker: Jake Taylor, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 8, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling PAH and PCB Sources and Degradation in Aquatic Sediments Based on Factor Analysis with Nonnegative Constraints
Speaker: Professor Erik Christensen, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Location: 142 Keck
Friday November 10, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 14, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
What's Entanglement Good For?
Speaker: Steve Flammia, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 15, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Importace of Biofilms in Environmental Mercury Methylation and Persistence of Enteric Bacteria in Beach Sediments
Speaker: Jenny Ayla Jay, UCLA
Location: 142 Keck
Friday November 17, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong
Speaker: King-Fai Li, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Monday November 20, 2006 2:00 PM
James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
The Power and Weakness of Randomness (When You Are Short on Time)
Speaker: Avi Wigderson, Princeton University
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Wednesday November 22, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 142 Keck
Friday November 24, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—CANCELLED
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 28, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Ancillae with Homogeneous Errors
Speaker: Bryan Eastin, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 29, 2006 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Massive Releases of Radioactivity—A Retrospective Look
Speaker: Charles S. Shapiro, San Francisco State University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: 142 Keck
Friday December 1, 2006 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday December 5, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Sound of Inflation: Phonon Correlations in a Chirped Ion
Speaker: Nicolas Menicucci, Princeton University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday December 12, 2006 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Network Coding—The Butterfly and Beyond
Speaker: Debbie Leung, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 3, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Importance in Biofilms in Environmental Mercury Methylation and Persistence of Enteric Bacteria in Beach Sediments"
Speaker: Jenny Ayla Jay, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 142 Keck
Friday January 5, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 9, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Error-Correcting Codes for Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Stephen Jordan, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday January 12, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 16, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Copy-Protection
Speaker: Scott Aaronson, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday January 19, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 23, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Superpolynomial Speedups Using Almost Any Quantum Circuit
Speaker: Aram Harrow, University of Bristol
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 24, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Trace Metals and the Terrestrial Nitrogen Cycle: Uptake of Essential and Toxic Axoanions in Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Speaker: Anne M. L. Kraepiel, Princeton University
Location: 142 Keck
Friday January 26, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Friday February 2, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Chernoff Bound and Asymptotic Error Exponents in Quantum Hypothesis Testing
Speaker: Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 7, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 142 Keck
Friday February 9, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday February 14, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Great Basin Hot Spring Cafe: Who's the Clientele and What's on the Menu?
Speaker: Brian P. Hedlund, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: 142 Keck
Friday February 16, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 20, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Cloning and Broadcasting in Generalized Probabilistic Theories
Speaker: Matthew Leifer, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 21, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Searching for Unknown Unknowns in Atmospheric Oxidation Chemistry
Speaker: William H. Brune, The Pennsylvania State University
Location: 142 Keck
Friday February 23, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday February 28, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reconstructing Hydrogen Isotopic Ratios of Past Continental Precipitation from Lake Sediments: Method Validation and High-Resolution Records
Speaker: Yongsong Huang, Brown University
Location: 142 Keck
Friday March 2, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday March 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Decoherence in Josephson Qubits: Noise Phenomenological Model and Its Microscopic Origin
Speaker: Lara Faoro, Rutgers University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 7, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Behavior of Mercury in Practical Combustion Systems: Model Development and Industrial Application
Speaker: Constance L. Senior, Reaction Engineering International
Location: 142 Keck
Friday March 9, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday March 13, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Contextuality and Nonclassicality
Speaker: Robert Spekkens, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday March 15, 2007 10:40 AM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meet the Players: Direct Identification of Microorganisms Involved in Biogeochemical Cycling and Contaminant Degradation
Speaker: Michael Friedrich, Max-Planck-Institut Fuer
Location: 142 Keck
Friday March 30, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 3, 2007 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tuesday April 3, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error Correction
Speaker: Todd Brun, USC
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday April 6, 2007 12:30 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
IPCC and Global Warming in California—UCS Web Seminar
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Friday April 13, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Contaminated Site Cleanup, from Start to Finish
Speaker: Jean Martin, BP America
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday April 18, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes?"
Speaker: Professor Kerry A. Emanuel, MIT
Location: 142 Keck
Friday April 20, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—CANCELLED
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 24, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Toward Photonic Crystal Quantum Circuit Boards and Networks
Speaker: Durdu Guney, UCSD
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 25, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Minerals, Microbes, and Contaminants: The Wonderful World of Iron Redox Chemistry
Speaker: Michelle Scherer, The University of Iowa
Location: 142 Keck
Friday April 27, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Considerations of Alternative Fuels
Speaker: Alec Brooks, EeroVironment, Inc
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 1, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Practical Error Correction for Quantum Key Distribution
Speaker: James Harrington, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 2, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrocarbon Giogeochemistry in a Seep Environment
Speaker: Dave Valentine, UC Santa Barbara
Location: 142 Keck
Friday May 4, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—CANCELLED
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 8, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Geometry of Quantum Criticality
Speaker: Paolo Zanardi, USC
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 9, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Monsoons as Eddy-Mediated Regime Transitions of a Hadley Cell
Speaker: Simona Bordoni, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Friday May 11, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Effects of Air Pollution on Children's Health
Speaker: Laurine Tuleya, South Coast Air Quality Management District Hearing Board
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 15, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Finding Braids for Topological Quantum Computation
Speaker: Nick Bonesteel, Florida State University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 16, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Processes Controlling the Long-Term Stability of Uranium in Contaminated Environments: The Role of Reactions at the Solid-Water Interface
Speaker: Daniel Giammar, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: 142 Keck
Friday May 18, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
"Science and Scientists of the Colorado River: My Observations and Thoughts on Management and Stewardship
Speaker: Richard Wildman, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 22, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Identifying Hidden Polynomial Functions Graphs
Speaker: Pawel Wocjan, University of Central Florida
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 23, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Chemical Vocabulary of a Microbial Conversation
Speaker: Roberto Kolter, Harvard University
Location: 142 Keck
Friday May 25, 2007 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Scott Fruin, Air Resources Board
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday May 30, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean fronts: Conduits of Vertical Exchange between the Ocean Surface and Interior
Speaker: Leif Thomas, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday July 10, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Gaussian Protocols for Quantum Key Distribution
Speaker: Nicolas Cerf, University of Brussels
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday August 7, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Falk Unger, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), the Netherlands
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Environmental Science and Engineering