Seminars for 2007-2008

Wednesday October 3, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hubbert's Peak, the Coal Question, and Climate Change
Speaker: David Rutledge, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday October 10, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Biogeochemical Dynamics of the Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Lessons from Three Extreme Environments
Speaker: Samantha B. Joye, University of Georgia
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday October 10, 2007 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Direct Product Theorems for Communication Complexity via Sub-Distribution Bounds with Application to Communication-Entanglement Trade-Offs in Quantum Communication Protocols
Speaker: Rahul Jain, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday October 11, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Fast Food and Farm Policy
Speaker: Dan Feldman, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday October 16, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simple Universal Hamiltonians
Speaker: Peter Love, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday October 17, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding Recent Atmospheric Circulation Trends: The Relative Impacts of Oceanic vs. Atmospheric Radiative Forcing
Speaker: Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 18, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Omnivore's Dilemma Part 2: Big Organic vs. Beyond Organic
Speaker: Ashley Jones, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday October 24, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: California and Beyond
Speaker: David B. Lobell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday October 25, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Omnivor's Dilemma 3: Hunting and Gathering
Speaker: Gretchen Keppel Aleks, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Friday October 26, 2007 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Rotating Photons
Speaker: Steven van Enk, University of Oregon
Location: 114 E. Bridge
Wednesday October 31, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mass Dependent and Mass Independent Fractionation of Mercury Isotopes in Aquatic Systems
Speaker: Bridget Bergquist, University of Michigan
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 1, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Societal and Environmental Topics Regarding Pennsylvania's Natural Resources: Amish Farmlands and Anthracite Coal
Speaker: Zachary J. Lebo, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Power of Quantum Systems on a Line
Speaker: Sandy Irani, UC Irvine
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 7, 2007 3:45 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anticipating Threats from New Chemicals and Mixtures: Linking Molecular Models to Field-Scale Forecasts
Speaker: Samuel Arey, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 8, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Washington Agriculture
Speaker: Nathan Honsowetz, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 13, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Phase Transition to Topological Order and Topological Entropy
Speaker: Alioscia Hamma, USC
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 14, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemistry and Phase Partitioning in Atmospheric Organic Aerosols: A Dynamic Interaction
Speaker: Neil M. Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 15, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Noise Effect on Humans and Animals
Speaker: Man Nin Chan, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 20, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments
Speaker: Eduardo Novais, Duke University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 21, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday November 28, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into Lignocellulose Degradation by Termite Gut Microbes
Speaker: Jared Leadbetter, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday November 29, 2007 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Typhoon in Taiwan
Speaker: Yi-Chun Chen, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday December 4, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
An Overview of Quantum Expanders
Speaker: Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday December 5, 2007 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Apparent North-South Symmetry of Climate Variatility at Orbital Time-Scales
Speaker: Peter John Huybers, Harvard University
Location: 142 Keck
Friday December 7, 2007 1:30 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Verifying Multimode Entanglement
Speaker: Pavel Lougovski, University of Oregon
Location: 214 Steele Laboratory
Friday December 14, 2007 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
NMR and Quantum Information Processing
Speaker: Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 9, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Minerals and Humic Substances-Consequences for Pollutant Transformation and Degradation
Speaker: Andreas Kappler, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen
Location: 142 Keck
Wednesday January 16, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Elucidating Chemical Mechanisms of Aerosol Formation through Studies of the Oxidation of Simple Hydrocarbons
Speaker: Paul J. Ziemann, UC Riverside
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 17, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Will the "Big One" Collapse Our Big Buildings?
Speaker: Swaminathan Krishnan, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday January 23, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gyoxal as a New Tracer of Photochemical Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
Speaker: Frank N. Keutsch, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 24, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Goods Movement and Air Pollution: How Many People Died for your Nikes?
Speaker: David Pettit, Natural Resources Defense Council
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 29, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulated Annealing
Speaker: Sergio Boixo, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 30, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Speaker: Benjamin Van Mooy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday January 31, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Markets and Environmental Regulation
Speaker: John Ledyard, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday February 6, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric Dynamics, Ozone, and Climate Change
Speaker: Theodore Shepherd, University of Toronto
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday February 7, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Sustainability Metrics for Caltech
Speaker: Asa Hopkins, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 12, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nanoscale Quantum Optics: From Single-Photon Devices to Strongly Correlated Systems
Speaker: Darrick Chang, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday February 14, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Mind of the Market
Speaker: Michael Shermer, Skeptic magazine, and executive director, Skeptics Society
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 19, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
How to Quantum Compute Against Biased Noise
Speaker: Panos Aliferis, IBM, Watson Research Center
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 20, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday February 26, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Complementarity and Wave-Particle Duality
Speaker: Berthold-Georg Englert, National University of Singapore
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday February 27, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation
Speaker: Brian Soden, The University of Miami
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday February 28, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Pasadena: Striving to Become a Sustainable Community
Speaker: Mauricio Mejia, City of Pasadena
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday March 4, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Measurement-only Topological Quantum Computation
Speaker: Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 5, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Siderophore-Mediated Biogeochemical Cycling of Transition Metals
Speaker: Owen Duckworth, North Carolina State University
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday March 6, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
Speaker: Greg Critser
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday March 12, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Solar Variability and Climate Change
Speaker: Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday March 13, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
NO SEMINAR
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday March 18, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Cost of a Nonlocal Measurement
Speaker: William Wootters, Williams College
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 26, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday April 1, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Physical Underpinnings of Privacy
Speaker: Jean Christian Boileau, University of Toronto
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 2, 2008 1:30 PM
Engineering for Space Exploration
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2008 1:30 PM
Engineering for Space Exploration
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Christopher Higgins, Johns Hopkins University
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday April 8, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Out-of-Equilibrium Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Speaker: Ulrich Schollwock, Technical University of Aachen
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 9, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Sensitivity of Low Clouds to Aspects of Climate Change
Speaker: Robert Wood, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday April 10, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environmental Impacts of Coffee Agriculture
Speaker: Gretchen Keppel Aleks, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 15, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Algebraic Quantum Circuits
Speaker: Wim van Dam, UC Santa Barbara
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 16, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Roles of Redox-Active "Antibiotics" in Iron Acquisition and Microbial Physiology
Speaker: Yun Wang, MIT
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday April 17, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
One Fish Two Red Fish No Fish: A Discussion on Fishing Around the World
Speaker: Zachary Lebo, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 22, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar—cancelled
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 23, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Adventures in Snow Photochemistry: From PAH Photodegradation to Light Absorption by Unknown Chromophores
Speaker: Cort Anastasio, UC Davis
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday April 29, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Speed-Up via Quantum Sampling
Speaker: Pawel Wocjan, University of Central Florida
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 30, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Frontiers of Aerosol Chemistry: Fundamental Studies of Chemical Reactions at Gas-Liquid Interfaces using Field Induced Droplet Ionization
Speaker: Jesse L. Beauchamp, Caltech
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 1, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Hawaii: The Endangered Species Capital of the World
Speaker: Colette Salyk, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 6, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser
Speaker: Avi Zadok, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 7, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Oceanic N-cycle
Speaker: Marcel Kuypers, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 8, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability: Financial Choices for a Research University
Speaker: Dean Currie, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 13, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices
Speaker: Liang Jiang, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 14, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere
Speaker: Allen Goldstein, UC Berkeley
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 15, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 20, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels
Speaker: Graeme Smith, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 21, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The "*" in IPCC Predictions of Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea-Level Change
Speaker: Ian Joughin, University of Washington
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 22, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Civil War Ends in Yosemite: Nature and Politics in 19th-Century America
Speaker: Bill Deverell
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday May 28, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studies of Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Speaker: Jose-Luis Jimenez, University of Colorado
Location: 142 Keck
Thursday May 29, 2008 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Challenge of Converting Lignocellulose into Anything, Much Less Biofuel
Speaker: Jared Leadbetter, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday June 4, 2008 4:00 PM
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The Quantum Spin Hall Effect and the Topological Magneto-Electric Effect
Speaker: Shou-Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
Location: 107 Downs Laboratory
Wednesday June 11, 2008 3:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biomineralization Mechanisms in Corals and Forminifera in View of Ocean Acidification
Speaker: Erez Jonathan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday June 17, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Fastest Rate
Speaker: Jonathan Oppenheim, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday June 24, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Networking with Atomic Ensembles
Speaker: Hui Deng, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday August 19, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Environmental Science and Engineering