Monday November 2, 2009
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz Equation
Guy Baruch, Tel Aviv University, Israel
4:15 PM
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

Tuesday November 3, 2009
IST Lunch Bunch
Matching Markets in the Lab
Leeat Yariv, Caltech
12:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Tuesday November 3, 2009
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Categorically Isolating Quantum Properties
Chris Heunen, University of Oxford
3:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Friday November 6, 2009
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Revealing Network Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Social Behavior
Naotaka Fujii, BSI, RIKEN
2:00 PM
24 Beckman Labs

Friday November 6, 2009
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Enriched Boundary Elements for Fracture Mechanics and Wave Scattering
Jon Trevelyan, Durham University, UK
2:00 PM
306 Firestone

Friday November 6, 2009
Applied Physics Seminar
Mesoscopic Cavity QED with a Single Quantum Dot
Martin Winger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)
4:00 PM
104 Watson

Friday November 6, 2009
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Electronics for High Performance Inertial Sensors
Bernhard E. Boser, UC Berkeley
4:00 PM
080 Moore

Monday November 9, 2009
Thesis Seminar
Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain
Klaus Wunderlich, Caltech
3:00 PM
100 Broad Center

Monday November 9, 2009
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
What Robotics and Control May Yet Learn from the Brain
Jean-Jacques Slotine, MIT
4:00 PM
24 Beckman Labs

Monday November 9, 2009
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Minimizing Communication in Linear Algebra
James Demmel, UC Berkeley
4:15 PM
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

Tuesday November 10, 2009
IST Lunch Bunch
Wireless Spectral Sharing Techniques and Issues
Fletcher Wicker, the Aerospace Corporation
12:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Tuesday November 10, 2009
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optimizing the Layout and Error Properties of Quantum Circuits
John Kubiatowicz, UC Berkeley
3:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Wednesday November 11, 2009
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Generalized Particle Flow for Maximal Stability of Nonlinear Filters
Fred Daum, Raytheon
4:00 PM
070 Moore

Friday November 13, 2009
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Title: Network Science for Wireless Communication: Information Spread, Mobility, and Resilience
Edmund Yeh, Yale University
12:00 PM
070 Moore

Friday November 13, 2009
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Stable Grid Refinement and Singular Source Discretization for Seismic Wave Simulations
Anders Petersson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2:00 PM
306 Firestone

Friday November 13, 2009
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
CMOS Integrated Biosensors: Fact or Fiction?
Arjang Hassibi, the University of Texas at Austin
4:00 PM
080 Moore

Monday November 16, 2009
Bioengineering Seminar Series
Cellular Integration in the Heart: Interaction between Myocytes, Fibroblasts, Endothelial Cells and the ECM
Thomas K. Borg, University of South Carolina
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Monday November 16, 2009
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Domain Decomposition Methods for High-Contrast Multiscale Flow Problems
Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University
4:15 PM
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

Tuesday November 17, 2009
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Babak Hassibi, Caltech
12:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Tuesday November 17, 2009
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Faster Quantum Algorithm for Evaluating Game Trees
Ben Reichardt, University of Waterloo
3:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Friday November 20, 2009
Applied Physics Seminar
Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons
Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester
4:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Monday November 23, 2009
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Anatomical, Physiological, and Pharmacological Properties Underlying Hippocampal Sensorimotor Integration
Brian Bland, University of Calgary
4:00 PM
24 Beckman Labs

Monday November 23, 2009
Bioengineering Seminar Series
Molecular Engineering and NanoBiotechnology for Live Cell Imaging
Peter Yingxiao Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
4:00 PM
106 Spalding Lab, Hartley Memorial Seminar Room

Monday November 23, 2009
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Go with the Geometric Flow
Mathieu Desbrun, Caltech
4:15 PM
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

Tuesday November 24, 2009
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Dynamically Corrected Gates
Kaveh Khodjasteh, Dartmouth College
3:00 PM
105 Annenberg

Monday November 30, 2009
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Geometric Structure of Conservative Complex Fluid Equations
Tudor Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
3:00 PM
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

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