Seminars for 2008-2009

Thursday September 18, 2008 4:00 PM
Trans-Boundary Air Pollution: Tracking Sources of Aerosols in the Middle East
Speaker: Professor Yigal Erel, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday October 1, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Long-Term Changes in the Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Sink
Speaker: Nicole Lovenduski, Colorado State University
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 2, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Organizational Meeting
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday October 8, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Simple Model of Subtropical Stratocumulus Cloud Feedbacks
Speaker: Peter Caldwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 9, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Low Energy-Use Design for the Building and Its Associated Laboratories
Speaker: Eric Soladay, Rumsey Engineering
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday October 15, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reconstructing Climate Deep in Earth history
Speaker: John Eiler, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 16, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
A History of Water Use in the West: Lessons from Cadillac Desert
Speaker: Ashley Jones, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Monday October 20, 2008 1:00 PM
Implementation of a Titan Saturn System Mission: One Giant Leap Beyond Cassini-Huygens
Speaker: Kim R. Reh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 21, 2008 12:00 PM
Titan and Enceladus: What Now Beyond Cassini-Huygens?
Speaker: Jonathan Lunine, University of Arizona
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 21, 2008 8:00 PM
Wouk Lecture: Jörg Imberger: Life in a Changing Climate
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday October 22, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Predicting Sea Ice-Climate Interactions
Speaker: Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 23, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
California Ballot Initiatives, 1A, 2, 7, and 10
Speaker: Nathan Dalleska, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Monday October 27, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Rocky Mountain Institute: Abundance by Design
Speaker: Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday October 29, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Interpreting the Variability of Oceanic Oxygen
Speaker: Curtis Deutsch, UCLA
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 30, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Global Water Issues
Speaker: Zack Lebo, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday November 5, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical Pacific Climate during the Last Millennium
Speaker: Julian Sachs, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 6, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Water Use on Campus
Speaker: Matt Berbee, Caltech
Speaker: John Onderdonk, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday November 12, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Pollen and Asthma
Speaker: Richard Flagan, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 13, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Innovations in Environmental Education (aka: "Are You Smarter than a 6th Grader?")
Speaker: Lindsay Yee, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 18, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Daniel Lidar, USC
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 19, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights on Redox Cycling and Microbial Function with in Situ Voltammetry
Speaker: Greg Druschel, University of Vermont
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 20, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lake Baikal: The Blue Eye of Siberia
Speaker: Kaitlyn Lucey, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday December 2, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Speaker: Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday December 3, 2008 9:00 AM
Thesis Defense
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday December 3, 2008 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—cancelled
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday December 4, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Basic Problems and Plans of Environment Protect in China
Speaker: Da Yang, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Monday December 8, 2008 1:30 PM
E/ME 105 Presentation: Product Design for the Developing World
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Tuesday December 9, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Mohammad Amin, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 7, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can We Tackle Air Pollution and Climate Change Simultaneously and Expect Only Benefits?
Speaker: Frank Raes, Environmental Institute European Commission
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 8, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
What Are the Opportunities in a Declining Economy?
Speaker: Bharat Patel, HOK architecture firm
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Monday January 12, 2009 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Speaker: Peter Drummond, Swinburne University of Technology
Location: 156 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 14, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Shape of Things to Come: The Potential and the Potential Limits of Global Climate Predictions
Speaker: Gerard Roe, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 15, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environment and Society: Xinjiang and China
Speaker: Ted Crovello
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 20, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Speaker: Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 21, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Natural Photochemical Nanoreactors in Aquatic Systems
Speaker: Kristopher McNeill, University of Minnesota
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 22, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tuesday January 27, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
Speaker: Christian Schaffner, Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI)
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 28, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Western Boundary Current Jets: An Observationally-Driven Theoretical Study
Speaker: Stephanie Waterman, massachusetts institute of technology and Woods Hole Oceanographi Institution
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 29, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Overview and Tour of Caltech's Central Plant
Speaker: Ben Smith, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Friday January 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Speaker: Daniel Lindner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 4, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Wave in the Tropical Atmosphere: A New Theory of the Madden Julian Oscillation
Speaker: Andrew Ingersoll, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday February 5, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Climate Policy Making Learn from Air Pollution Policy Making? The Experience in Europe and the Enhanced Role of Science
Speaker: Frank Raes, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Friday February 6, 2009 1:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
Water Quality Implications of Changing Surface Water Levels at Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, and Groundwater Levels at the Mercer River, Central California, USA
Speaker: Rich Wildman, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday February 11, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Characterization of Snowpack and Its Variability in Mountainous Terrain
Speaker: Steve Margulis, UCLA
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday February 12, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lessons from the History of Air Pollution in Los Angeles for a Warming World
Speaker: Chip Jacobs
Speaker: Bill Kelly
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 17, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Speaker: Hector Bombín, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 18, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Including Information from Large Multi-model Archives in Climate-Change Detection and Attribution Studies: One Model, One Vote?
Speaker: Benjamin David Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday February 24, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Speaker: Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 25, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the Sahel, Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Alessandra Giannini, Columbia University
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday February 26, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory: An Early postmortem and prospects for future observations of CO2 from space
Speaker: Paul Wennberg, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday March 4, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gauging Cryosphere-Driven Sea Level Rise: How Stable Are the Polar Ice Sheets?
Speaker: Shawn Marshall, University of Calgary
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday March 5, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday March 10, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Speaker: Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 11, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—cancelled
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday March 12, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Production of Hydrogen from Water with Sunlight: Does the Hydrogen Economy Really Have a Chance?
Speaker: Michael Hoffmann, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Friday March 13, 2009 3:00 PM
Thesis Defense
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday April 1, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Speaker: Geoff Vallis, Princeton University
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday April 7, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Speaker: Sergey Bravyi, IBM
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 8, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Speaker: Gwenn Flowers, Simon Fraser University
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday April 9, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
What I Learned about Public Power in Pasadena
Speaker: Carol Carmichael, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday April 15, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Speaker: Sergey Nizkorodov, UC Irvine
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday April 16, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Potential of Fission and Fusion for Meeting Energy Demands
Speaker: Paul Bellan, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 21, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simulating Quantum Systems Using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
Speaker: Norbert Schuch, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 22, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Patchy Mixing Matters
Speaker: Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday April 23, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Potential Role of Hydrogen Vehicles in our Energy and Climate future
Speaker: Rody Stephenson
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
Speaker: Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 29, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards Improved Prediction
Speaker: Ginny Catania, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday April 30, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past
Speaker: Jess Adkins, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 5, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers
Speaker: Avinatan Hassidim, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 6, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Aerosols in the United States: Observation from Space and Pollution-Climate Interactions
Speaker: Daniel Jacob, Harvard University
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday May 7, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Greening Pasadena: The City's Plans for a Sustainable Future
Speaker: Alice Sterling, City of Pasadena
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday May 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Micro-Granular Adsorptive Membrane Filtration: A New Hybrid Membrane/Adsorbent Process for Water Treatment
Speaker: Mark Benjamin, University of Washington
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Wednesday May 13, 2009 5:15 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
How We Became Human
Speaker: Michael Balter
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Thursday May 14, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
New Directions in Urban Planning
Speaker: Stefanos Polyzoides, Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 19, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Matthew Elliott, University of Southern Indiana
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Contribution of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones to the Rainfall Climatology of the Southwest United States
Speaker: Kristen Corbosiero, UCLA
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday May 21, 2009 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
From Horse Power to Horsepower: Transportation Externalities in the 19th Century City
Speaker: Eric Morris, UCLA
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday May 27, 2009 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Measuring VOCs at 150 ms-1 over the Tropical Rainforest
Speaker: Jonathan Williams, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Otto Hahn Institute
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Tuesday June 23, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Quantum Approach to Thermal Equilibrium
Speaker: Tony Short, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday June 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Some Topological Applications of Tensor Networks
Speaker: Miguel Aguado, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Environmental Science and Engineering