Events
April 2009
Ongoing
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4/1
8:00pm
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
10:00am
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8:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Geoff Vallis,
senior scientist and professor,
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory,
Princeton University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
4:40pm
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5:40pm
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Sergey Bravyi,
IBM,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Gwenn Flowers,
assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology,
Earth Sciences,
Simon Fraser University,
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
What I Learned about Public Power in Pasadena
Carol Carmichael,
member of Pasadena's Environmental Advisory Commission and faculty associate,
engineering and applied science,
Caltech,
Friday, April 10th, 2009
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
12:15pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Sergey Nizkorodov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Potential of Fission and Fusion for Meeting Energy Demands
Paul Bellan,
professor of applied physics,
Caltech,
Friday, April 17th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:40pm
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5:40pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simulating Quantum Systems Using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
Norbert Schuch,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
7:30am
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2:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Patchy Mixing Matters
Jennifer MacKinnon,
assistant research faculty,
physical oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
The Potential Role of Hydrogen Vehicles in our Energy and Climate future
Rody Stephenson,
Friday, April 24th, 2009
11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:40pm
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5:40pm
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
Steve Flammia,
postdoctoral reseacher,
Perimeter Institute,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
8:00am
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards Improved Prediction
Ginny Catania,
research associate professor in geophysics,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past
Jess Adkins,
associate professor of geochemistry and global environmental science,
Caltech,