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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
8:00am – 2/10 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Atmospheric signatures of changing global biogeochemistry
Ralph Keeling, Professor, Department of Geosciences Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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John P. O'Doherty - How the Brain Learns from the Past and Makes Good Decisions for the Future: A Tour of Neural Reinforcement Learning

Beckman Auditorium
Thursday, February 5th, 2015
11:15am – 12:15pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
Precision Motion Control with Manufacturing Applications
Andrew Alleyne, Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Does planetary warming always dry out the continents? Lessons from theory, GCMs, and paleoclimates
Jack Scheff, NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
From Systems to Networks: Theory and Computation for Distributed Predictive Control
Melanie Zeilinger, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, February 16th, 2015
8:00am – 5:00pm
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President's Day (Institute Holiday)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
9:00am – 9:01am
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Due Date for Midterm Deficiency Notices

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Geomechanics Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Discrete Modeling of Granular Media: A NURBS-based Approach Citation
Keng Wit Lim, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
12:00pm – 1:45pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Dr. Burton Richter, Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus, Physical Sciences, Stanford University,
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
Risk Management and Combinatorial Optimization for Sustainable Power Systems
Insoon Yang, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
The Terradynamics of Robotic and Biological Movement in Complex Terrain
Chen Li, University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Last day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Winter Term

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
A millennial-scale stagnation of Southern Ocean circulation in a past warm climate
Christopher Hayes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Spring Term 2014-15

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Evolution of Tunable Laser Absorption Sensors for Combustion and Propulsion
Ronald Hanson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,