Seminars for 2011-2012

Wednesday October 5, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Space-based Measurements of NO2: Urban Trends, Rural Farms and Thoughts on OH
Speaker: Ron Cohen, University of California, Berkley
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday October 12, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change and the End of Exponential Growth
Speaker: Pieter Tans, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday October 19, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Organisation of Diverse Phytoplankton Communities in the Ocean
Speaker: Mick Follows, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday October 26, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
No Seminar this week
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday October 27, 2011 11:30 AM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
On the complexity of the commuting local Hamiltonian problem and tight conditions for Topological Order in such systems
Speaker: Lior Eldar, Hebrew University
Location: 213 Annenberg
Friday October 28, 2011 1:30 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
GALCIT Entrepreneurs' Forum - Panel Discussion
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Wednesday November 2, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Tools for Monitoring Biodegradation of Emerging Water Contaminants
Speaker: Shaily Mahendra, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday November 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Remote sensing of African smallholder farmers and their environment: Impacts of agricultural subsidies and climate adaptation
Speaker: Gillian Galford
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday November 16, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CalTech vs GaTech: Secondary organic aerosol and soluble brown carbon
Speaker: Rodney Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Monday November 28, 2011 1:30 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease
Speaker: Arthur G. Fitzmaurice, UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech)
Location: 24 Beckman Labs
Wednesday November 30, 2011 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests
Speaker: Alan Townsend, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday January 11, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest
Speaker: Roger Bales, University of California, Merced
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday January 18, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
Speaker: David Romps, University of California, Berkley
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday January 19, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seismic Hazards in Japan: Role of Seismology in a Modern Living Environment
Speaker: Hiroo Kanamori, California Institute of Technology
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday January 25, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean, and variability in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over long timescales
Speaker: Michael Bender, Princeton University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday January 26, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be Announced
Speaker: Riley Duren, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday February 1, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Speaker: Tiffany Shaw, Columbia University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday February 2, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Informing Climate and Other Contentious Decisions Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty
Speaker: Robert Lempert, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Tuesday February 7, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Understanding RVB states with PEPS
Speaker: David Perez-Garcia, Complutense University of Madrid
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 8, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Speaker: Eric Alm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday February 9, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations
Speaker: Eric Kort, JPL/Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Tuesday February 14, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
Speaker: Fernando Pastawski, Max-Planck Institute
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 15, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper
Speaker: Jake Gebbie, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Tuesday February 21, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The complexity of the Local Separable Hamiltonian Problem lem
Speaker: André Chailloux, University of California, Berkeley
Location: 107 Annenberg
Wednesday February 22, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Weather Underground: New speleothem records of Late Holocene climate
Speaker: Kathleen Johnson, University of California, Irvine
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday February 23, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California
Speaker: John Hall, California Institute of Technology
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday February 29, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records
Speaker: Thure Cerling, University of Utah
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday March 1, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Linking Knowledge with Action: an approach to science grantmaking
Speaker: Kai Lee, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday March 7, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature
Speaker: Zhaohua Wu, Florida State University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Wednesday March 14, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Distributions, sources and sinks of greenhouse gases assessed using global and regional aircraft measurements
Speaker: Steve Wofsy, Harvard University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday March 15, 2012 3:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Special Lecture in Engineering Education
Location: 206 Thomas
Monday March 19, 2012 9:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Computational Modeling Studies of Fundamental Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Speaker: Zachary J. Lebo, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Friday March 23, 2012 2:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Scientific Research and Education: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Subra Suresh, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Location: Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Wednesday April 11, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oil-Water Separations Research and Application to Oil Spill Cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico
Speaker: Eric Hoek, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday April 12, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Plastic Island: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Speaker: Lindsay Yee, Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday April 18, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Speaker: Bradley Tebo, Oregon Health and Science University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday April 19, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Review of Particulate Matter Toxicity & Implications for Management
Speaker: Alex Teng, Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday April 25, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Seeing the forest AND the trees: Modeling ecosystem-climate interactions
Speaker: Naomi Marcil Levine, Harvard University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday April 26, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Review of the Environmental Impact and Politics Associated with the Keystone XL Pipeline Project
Speaker: Rebecca Schwantes, Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday May 2, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiple constraints on net community production and its regulating factors in the Southern Ocean
Speaker: Nicolas Cassar, Duke University
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 3, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seedbanks as Biodiversity Reserves: Not Your Typical Public Storage
Speaker: Kaitlyn Lucey, Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday May 9, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chlorophyll fluorescence from space, new avenues in carbon cycle research
Speaker: Christian Frankenberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 10, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Science at Conservation International
Speaker: Andrew Rosenberg, Conservation International
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday May 16, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Perihuman aerosol science: UFPs, SVOCs, and the indoor microbiome
Speaker: William Nazaroff, University of California, Berkley
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 17, 2012 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Atmospheric Black Carbon: Measurements in the Los Angeles Atmosphere and Aging by Condensation of Organic Aerosol
Speaker: Andrew Metcalf, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 17, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change, from CMIP5 to IPCC Reports
Speaker: Jinqiang Chen, Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Wednesday May 23, 2012 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean Circulation, Ice Volume, and CO2 in the Late Pleistocene
Speaker: Lorraine Lisiecki , University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Thursday May 24, 2012 12:00 PM
ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California, Part 2: The State Water Project
Speaker: John Hall, Caltech
Location: 162 Mudd Laboratory, South
Tuesday May 29, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum control of diamond defects for quantum information and bio-imaging
Speaker: Peter Maurer, Harvard University
Location: 107 Annenberg
Thursday August 2, 2012 1:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
Atmospheric trace gases as probes of chemistry and dynamics
Speaker: King-Fai Li, Caltech
Location: 365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
Environmental Science and Engineering