Sustainability Events at Caltech
Winter 2014-2015
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is the ITCZ in the Northern Hemisphere? And why is there a double ITCZ problem?
Dargan Frierson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Physical mechanisms controlling the self-aggregation of tropical convection in idealized numerical simulations
Allison Wing,
NSF AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Life at pH 12: being educated by cultivated organisms and geochemistry -- being surprised and mystified by metagenomics.
Kenneth H. Nealson,
Wrigley Professor of Environmental Science,
University of Southern California,
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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JCAP Seminar
Photosensitization of Single Crystal Semiconductors: From Photography to Multiple Excitons
Bruce Parkinson,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and the School of Energy Resources,
University of Wyoming,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Simple predictions of forest structure from resource limitations and fractal geometry
Chris Kempes,
Visiting Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems,
Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric signatures of changing global biogeochemistry
Ralph Keeling,
Professor,
Department of Geosciences Research,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Development of Materials for Future Energy Systems using Combinatorial Synthesis of Thin Film Materials Libraries and High-Throughput Characterization
Alfred Ludwig,
Professor,
Institute for Materials,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
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,
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:45pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Dr. Burton Richter,
Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus,
Physical Sciences,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
The Science and Economics of Photoelectrochemial Hydrogen Production
Matt Shaner,
Resnick Institute Graduate Research Fellow,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
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,
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multi-dimensional interactions define dynamics in natural microbial communities
Karsten Zengler,
Research Scientist,
Department of Systems Biology Research,
UC San Diego,
Monday, March 9th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Low-Rank Methods in Data Management of High-Dimensional Synchrophasor Measurements
Meng Wang,
Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Analysis of observed and modeled rainfall seasonality properties with indicators based on information entropy
Salvatore Pascale,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,