Seminars for 2010-2011

Tuesday October 5, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains
Speaker: Ronny Thomale, Princeton University
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday October 6, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rainfall Patterns and Catchment Response during Extreme Flash Flood Events over the Dry Climate Regions of the Southeastern Mediterranean
Speaker: Efrat Morin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday October 13, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From Genes to Biogeochemical Cycles: A Marine Sulfur Cycle Case Study
Speaker: Naomi Marcil Levine, Harvard University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday October 20, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of the Deep Ocean in Setting the Last Glacial Maximum Climate
Speaker: Jess Adkins, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday October 21, 2010 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Insecticide Resistance in Bed Bugs
Speaker: Morgan Raven, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday October 26, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
Speaker: David Gossett, MIT
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday October 27, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gases and Their Masses: Using Dissolved O2 Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios to Qualify the Pacific Ocean Biological Carbon Pump
Speaker: Laurie Juranek, University of Washington and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday October 28, 2010 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Evaluation of the Importance of In-could SOA Formation
Speaker: Xuan Zhang, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 2, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spin Systemsas Toy Models for Emergent Gravity
Speaker: Fotini Markopoulou, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday November 3, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Reaching the Wind and Invading New Territories: The Strategies of Stationary and Symbiotic Organisms
Speaker: Anne Pringle, Harvard University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday November 4, 2010 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Anne Laraia, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 9, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform
Speaker: Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday November 10, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changing Nutrient Biogeochemistry in a Warmer, More Acidic Future Ocean
Speaker: David Hutchins, USC
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday November 11, 2010 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Sustainability of Worldwide Population Growth
Speaker: Ramla Gabriel, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 16, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing
Speaker: Hartmut Neven, Google
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday November 17, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ecoclimate Teleconnections: Remote Effects of the Interactions between Ecosystems and Climate
Speaker: Abigail Swann, Harvard University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday November 18, 2010 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Generational Changes in Environmental Consciousness and Attitudes
Speaker: Wilton Mui, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday November 23, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information Processing with Atomic Spin Ensembles
Speaker: Eugene Polzik, Copenhagen University
Location: 107 Annenberg
Tuesday November 30, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Money
Speaker: Andrew Lutomirski, MIT
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday December 1, 2010 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mutualistic Interactions between Free-living Marine Phytoplankton and Heterotrophic Bacteria
Speaker: Erik Zinser, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday December 2, 2010 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Characteristics of Urban Nonpoin Source Pollution: A Case Study in Korea
Speaker: Kangwoo Cho, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday December 7, 2010 2:30 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
Speaker: Andrew Childs, University of Waterloo
Location: 107 Annenberg
Tuesday December 14, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Subsystem and Stabilizer Codes with Spatially Local Generators
Speaker: Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research
Location: 107 Annenberg
Tuesday January 4, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emergent spacetime and quantum entanglement
Speaker: Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia
Location: 107 Annenberg
Thursday January 6, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Jennifer Walker, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday January 12, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Energetics and Potential Implications of Iceberg Calving
Speaker: Jason Amundson, the University of Chicago
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday January 13, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Environmental Justice: Historical Perspectives and Policy Challenges
Speaker: Jennifer Walker, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 18, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Probing Majorana Edge States With a Flux Qubit
Speaker: Chang-Yu Hou, Leiden University
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday January 19, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using Triple O Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios for Estimating Primary Production under Non-steady Conditions in Marginal Ice Blooms in the Bering Sea
Speaker: Masha Prokopenko, USC
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday January 20, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Chlorine Dilemma: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Speaker: Michael Hoffmann, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday January 25, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyons, twists and topological codes
Speaker: Hector Bombin, Perimeter Institute
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday January 26, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field-Scale Bioremediation of a Uranium-Impacted Aquifer under Natural and Artificially Stimulated Conditions
Speaker: Kate Campbell, U. S. Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday January 27, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Science and Politics of Soil
Speaker: Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Thursday January 27, 2011 10:30 AM
Lemelson-Caltech Student Prize Presentations
Location: 206 Thomas
Friday January 28, 2011 1:30 PM
Memorial Service for Jerrold E. Marsden
Location: Dabney Lounge
Tuesday February 1, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Cold Atoms
Speaker: Jiannis Pachos, University of Leeds
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 2, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Defining and Scaling Coupled Hydrological-biogeochemical Processes Responsible for the Worlds Largest Mass Poisoning
Speaker: Benjamin David Kocar, Stanford University
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday February 3, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Nanotechnology for Sustainability: Environment, Water and Climate
Speaker: Mamadou Diallo, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 8, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optical Continuous-Variable Cluster States
Speaker: Nicolas Menicucci, Perimeter Institute
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Impact of Ocean Heat Transport in Warm and Cold Climates
Speaker: Brian Rose , University of Washington
Location: 155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Thursday February 10, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Solar Cell Primer: From the Sun to the Lab to the Market
Speaker: Dan Turner-Evans, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 15, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantifying the Relation Between Work and Information-recent Results Using the Smooth Entropy Approach
Speaker: Oscar Dahlsten, National University of Singapore
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 16, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Direct CO2 Capture from Air Using Moisture Swing Absorption
Speaker: Klaus Lackner, Columbia University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday February 17, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday February 22, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Proofs for Classical Theorems
Speaker: Andrew Drucker, MIT
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 23, 2011 11:45 AM
Special Presentation: "Meet the Volts"
Location: 105 Annenberg
Wednesday February 23, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insights Derived from Studying the Signature of the MJO in Satellite and Lightning Observations
Speaker: John Wallace, University of Washington
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday February 24, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Montana Repeal the Physics of Climate? Market of Fundamentalism and the Rise of Anti-science in the United States
Speaker: Erik Conway, JPL
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday March 1, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement and Renormalization in Many Body Systems
Speaker: Brian Swingle, MIT
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday March 2, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Environment, Agriculture, and Food Nexus
Speaker: Pamela Martin, the University of Chicago
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tuesday March 8, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Theory Cannot be Extended
Speaker: Roger Colbeck, Perimeter Institute
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday March 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microscale Distributions of Phytoplankton Revealed Using a Planar Laser Imaging Fluorometer
Speaker: Peter J. S. Franks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday March 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Lemelson $30,000 Student Prize Announcement and Wine Reception
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Thursday March 10, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Did the Retro Commissioning of the Mudd Buildings Actually Save Energy?
Speaker: John Onderdonk, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday March 16, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Projected Changes in the Seasonal Cycle under Global Warming
Speaker: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Saturday April 2, 2011 2:00 PM
SCI-Arc/Caltech Solar Decathlon House Groundbreaking Ceremony
Location: See event detail for location
Tuesday April 5, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Visualization of Two Qubits
Speaker: Yosi Avron, Technion
Location: 107 Annenberg
Thursday April 7, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday April 13, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Scientific Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon
Speaker: David L. Valentine, UC Santa Barbara
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday April 14, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Speaker: Jess Adkins, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday April 19, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Improving Telescopes with Quantum Repeaters
Speaker: Daniel Gottessman, Perimeter Institute
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday April 20, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent Developments in Real-World Tropical Cyclogenesis
Speaker: Michael T. Montgomery, Naval Postgraduate School
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday April 21, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group—cancelled
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Monday April 25, 2011 12:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Transforming Light Polarization into Matter-spin-qubits and Back, Using Single, Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Speaker: David Gershoni, Israel Institute of Technology
Location: 213 Annenberg
Tuesday April 26, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spacetime Could be Simultaneously Continuous and Discrete, in the Same Way that Information Can Be
Speaker: Achim Kempf, University of Waterloo
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday April 27, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dissolved Oxygen in the Ocean: Why Is It Changing and What Can It Tell Us about Biological Productivity
Speaker: Rachel Stanley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday April 28, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Past and Future of the Linde-Robinson Coelostat
Speaker: Paul Wennberg, Caltech
Speaker: Tapio Schneider, Caltech
Speaker: Michael Hoffmann, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 3, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Parallel Repetition of Entangled Games
Speaker: Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday May 4, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Role of Stationary Rossby Waves in Shaping Storm Track Dynamics
Speaker: Yohai Kaspi, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 5, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Speaker: Tapio Schneider, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 10, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Thermal Stability of Topological Order and Feasibility of Efficient Self-Correcting Quantum Memory
Speaker: Beni Yoshida, UC Berkeley
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday May 11, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Cenozoic Seawater Chemistry and Climate—Insights from Magnesium Isotopes
Speaker: John Higgins, Princeton University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 12, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Nuclear Power Be As Safe As Milk?
Speaker: Nahtan Dalleska, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Wednesday May 18, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mechanisms of Long-term Survival and Evolution in Bacteria
Speaker: Steven Finkel, USC
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 19, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Burden of Proof—Weighing the Costs of Cheap Energy
Speaker: Aaron Wolf, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 24, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
What Can We Learn from Quantum Entanglement Spectra?
Speaker: Daniel Arovas, UC San Diego
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday May 25, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Response of the Sea Ice Seasonal Cycle to Climate Change
Speaker: Ian Eisenman, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 26, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Overview of the Factors Contributing to the Recent fFood-price Inflation
Speaker: Xavier Levine, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Shangyu Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: 107 Annenberg
Thursday June 2, 2011 9:00 AM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Civic Science Approach to Climate Change in California
Speaker: Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, Caltech
Location: 151 Arms, Buwalda Room
Thursday June 16, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Phases in 1D: An Entanglement Point of View
Speaker: Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Location: 107 Annenberg
Tuesday June 28, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quntum Substate Theorem
Location: 107 Annenberg
Tuesday July 5, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topologically Protected Quantum State Transfer in a Chiral Spin Liquid
Speaker: Norman Yao, Harvard University
Location: 107 Annenberg
Thursday July 7, 2011 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
The General Circulation of the Tropical Atmosphere and Climate Changes
Speaker: Timothy Merlis, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tuesday July 12, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Mechanical Quantum Mechanical Resonator
Speaker: Aaron O'Connell, Pivit Computing, and University of California Santa Barbara
Location: 107 Annenberg
Environmental Science and Engineering