Seminars for 2004-2005

Wednesday September 29, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Agricultural Chemical Transport along a Short Flow Path, Merced River Basin, California
Speaker: Joseph Domagalski, U.S. Geological Survey
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday October 6, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"The Effect of Bubble Dynamics and Mining on Gases in the Ocean: Implication for Productivity Measurements near Hawaii"
Speaker: Roberta Hamme, University of California, San Diego
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday October 20, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Advective Transport Processes in Sediments and Effects on the Biogeochemistry
Speaker: Wiebke Ziebis, University of Southern California
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday October 27, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What Controls the Carbon Cycle Over Geologic Time?
Speaker: Daniel Schrag, Harvard University
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday November 2, 2004 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Entropy of Random Critical Points in One Dimension
Speaker: Gil Refael, UCSB
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 3, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Ocean Circulation: A Heat Budget Perspective
Speaker: Giulio Boccaletti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday November 9, 2004 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exploring Quantum Control with Quantum Information Processors
Speaker: David Poulin, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 10, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mechanistic and Structural Studies of Biogenic Manganese Oxides
Speaker: Samuel Webb, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Location: 142 Keck
Monday November 15, 2004 4:00 PM
James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
Is a Mathematical Theory of Cryptography Possible?
Speaker: James L. Massey, ETH Zurich
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Wednesday November 17, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Structure and Origin of Southern California Climate Variations
Speaker: Alex Hall, UCLA
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday December 1, 2004 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reconstruction of Deep Sea Chemistry and Temperature during the Last Glacial
Speaker: Pamela Martin, The University of Chicago
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday December 7, 2004 3:30 PM
Computer Sciences Holiday Party
Location: Dabney Lounge
Wednesday January 5, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of Cell Surface Macromolecules on Bacterial Adhesion and Transport in Aquatic Environments
Speaker: Sharon Walker, University of California, Riverside
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday January 11, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Thermodynamical Cost of Erasure of Correlations in Quantum Systems
Speaker: Michal Horodecki, University of Gdansk
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 12, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The North Atlantic-Mediterranean-Red Sea Teleconnection: A New View of Subtropical Aridity
Speaker: Gidon Eshel, University of Chicago
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday January 19, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Beyond the Mass-Dependent/Mass-Independent Dichotomy
Speaker: Alon Angert, University of California, Berkeley
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 20, 2005 1:30 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Reflection Positivity for Smooth Manifolds Fails in Dimension Four and Higher
Speaker: Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research
Location: 239 Moore
Thursday January 20, 2005 2:30 PM
Optimal Vortex Formation as a Unifying Principle for Biological Fluid Transport
Speaker: John O. Dabiri, California Institute of Technology
Location: 102 Steele
Tuesday January 25, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
CANCELLED
Speaker: Wim van Dam, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 26, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemical Reactivity of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
Speaker: R. Lee Penn, University of Minnesota
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday February 1, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bell Inequalities and the Communication Cost of Simulating Non-Locality
Speaker: Stefano Pironio, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 2, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Investigating the Sources of Halogenated Organic Compounds in Marine Mammals: Are They Naturally Produced or Industrially Derived?
Speaker: Christopher Reddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday February 9, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Antibiotics in Biological Control: Not Just for Competition Anymore!
Speaker: Leland (Sandy) Pierson III, University of Arizona
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday February 15, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Capacity Theorems for Quantum Multiple Access Channels
Speaker: Jon Yard, Stanford University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 16, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Cirrus Clouds/Aerosols: Remote Sensing and Climatic Implication
Speaker: Kuo-Nan Liou, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday February 22, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entangled-Pair Projected States: Properties and Applications
Speaker: Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 23, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Diverse Microbial Partnerships Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane
Speaker: Victoria Orphan, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday March 1, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced
Speaker: Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 2, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Water Framework Directive as the Paradigm for the Ecological and Chemical Protection of European Surface Waters
Speaker: Steven Eisenreich, JRC (Joint Research Centre)
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday March 8, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Applications of Quantum Information to Theories of Unconventional Antiferromagnets and Superconductors
Speaker: Joel Moore, Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 15, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Generalized Entanglement as a Resource for Efficient Computation
Speaker: Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 29, 2005 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Plenty of Room at the Bottom: The Strange World of One-Dimensional Quantum Physics
Speaker: Ulrich Schollwöck, Technical University of Aachen
Location: 156 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 29, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Spectra of Quantum States and Representation Theory
Speaker: Matthias Christandl, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 29, 2005 4:00 PM
Characterization of Slip Behavior at Liquid/Solid Interfaces: Influence of Liquid Ordering, Wall Roughness, and Substrate Surface Patterning
Speaker: Sandra Troian, Princeton University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Thursday March 31, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 114 E. Bridge
Tuesday April 5, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information with Optical Lattices
Speaker: Jiannis Pachos, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 6, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Air Pollutants in Asthma and Cardiovascular Disease: Role of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation
Speaker: Andre Nel, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday April 7, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Obesity Epidemic: What Role for Planning?
Speaker: Marlon G. Boarnet, University of California, Irvine
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday April 13, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron and Macronutrients in Coastal Upwelling Regimes: Central California and Peru
Speaker: Kenneth Bruland, University of California, Santa Cruz
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday April 14, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Green Architecture and Smart Growth
Speaker: Elizabeth Moule
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 19, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Phases for Quantum Computation: Their Properties and Physical Realization
Speaker: Jiri Vala, UC Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 20, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Views on Sediment Chemistry, Toxicity, and Treatment (If You Are a Clam, You're Not Necessarily What You Eat!)
Speaker: Richard Luthy, Stanford University
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday April 21, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environmental Enforcement
Speaker: James Potter
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 26, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Martin Roetteler, NEC-Labs
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 27, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Estimating Primary Production Rates in the Ocean: Recent In Situ Versus Traditional In Vitro Methods
Speaker: Paul Quay, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday April 28, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Modern Biodiversity Crisis
Speaker: Richard Wildman, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday May 4, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Upper Ocean Dynamics
Speaker: Raffaele Ferrari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 5, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Fuel Cells and Their Role in a Sustainable Energy Future
Speaker: Sossina Haile, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 10, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bipartite Entanglement in the Stabilizer Formalism
Speaker: David Fattal, Stanford University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 11, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fe-NOM Interactions and the Photodegradation of Natural Organic Matter
Speaker: Patricia Maurice, University of Notre Dame
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 12, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
How to Deal with Radioactive Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?
Speaker: Ashley Jones, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 17, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Theory of Quantum Gravity Based on Quantum Computation
Speaker: Seth Lloyd, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 18, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Bioremediation of Atomic Bomb Wastes: Adventures in the Near-Source Zone
Speaker: Craig Criddle, Stanford University
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 19, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: How an Environmental Engineer Works at JPL
Speaker: Annmarie Eldering, JPL
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 24, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum State Reconstruction via Continuous Measurement
Speaker: Andrew Silberfarb, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 25, 2005 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Homeostatic Mechanisms in Algae for Trace Element Utilization
Speaker: Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 26, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environmental Cooperation and Economic Fairness
Speaker: Gretchen Aleks, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 31, 2005 10:00 AM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of Surface Fluxes and Ocean Coupling in the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Speaker: Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tuesday May 31, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Adiabatic Computation: From Hilbert's Tenth Problem to the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Quantum Phase Transition
Speaker: Tien D Kieu, Swinburne University of Technology
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday June 2, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Clean Water-Clean Air Advocate for Environment California
Speaker: Sujatha Jahagirdar
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday June 8, 2005 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Symmetric Group Defies Fourier Sampling: Finding Hidden Subgroups Requires Non-Separable Measurement
Speaker: Alexander Russell, University of Connecticut
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday June 9, 2005 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday July 12, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Capacity of Bosonic Gaussian Channels with Memory
Speaker: Nicolas Cerf, University of Brussels
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday July 19, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Tour of Variational Quantum Field Theory
Speaker: Henri Verschelde, Ghent University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday July 26, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
New Tales of the Mean King
Speaker: Martin Roetteler, NEC-Labs
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday August 2, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
From Quantum Computers to Identification of Molecules
Speaker: Tal Mor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Environmental Science and Engineering