Events
February 2009
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Wave in the Tropical Atmosphere: A New Theory of the Madden Julian Oscillation
Andrew Ingersoll,
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Climate Policy Making Learn from Air Pollution Policy Making? The Experience in Europe and the Enhanced Role of Science
Frank Raes,
head of the climate change unit,
Joint Research Center, European Commission in Ispra, Italy,
Institute for Environment and Sustainability,
Friday, February 6th, 2009
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Defense
Water Quality Implications of Changing Surface Water Levels at Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, and Groundwater Levels at the Mercer River, Central California, USA
Rich Wildman,
graduate students in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-Scale Characterization of Snowpack and Its Variability in Mountainous Terrain
Steve Margulis,
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering,
UCLA,
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Lessons from the History of Air Pollution in Los Angeles for a Warming World
Chip Jacobs,
Bill Kelly,
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
4:15pm
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
8:00am
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
9:00am
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9:01am
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Hector Bombín,
postdoctoral scholar,
Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Including Information from Large Multi-model Archives in Climate-Change Detection and Attribution Studies: One Model, One Vote?
Benjamin David Santer,
physicist and atmospheric scientist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
4:15pm
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
3:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Daniel Gottesman,
faculty member,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the Sahel, Past, Present and Future
Alessandra Giannini,
associate research scientist,
International Research Institute for Climate and Society,
Columbia University,
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
8:00am
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Ongoing
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory: An Early postmortem and prospects for future observations of CO2 from space
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, February 27th, 2009
4:15pm
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009