Sustainability Events at Caltech
Winter 2017-2018
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrology, sediment or permafrost: why do high latitude rivers move so slowly?
Joel Rowland,
Scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus
Pedro J.J. Alvarez,
George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Rice University,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamical Sea Level Rise: Past and Future Uncertainty
Laure Zanna,
Associate Professor of Climate Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The atmospheric life cycle of pollen
Allison Steiner,
Associate Professor,
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the West African Monsoon: Confusion, Consensus, and the Way Forward
Michela Biasutti,
Lamont Associate Research Professor,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
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Special Seminar: Young Investigator Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
How vegetation impacts erosion
Qingjun (Judy) Yang,
PhD Candidate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Metals, Minerals, Microbes, and Mussels: The Chemical Biology of Catechol in Siderophores and Adhesive Proteins
Alison Butler,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Long Range Propagation of Ocean Swell
William Young,
Professor, Physical Oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
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Smart Grid Seminar
Disturbance Based Decentralized Frequency Control for Power Systems
Oleg Khamisov,
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
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Smart Grid Seminar
Geometry and convexity of quadratic maps
Anatoly Dymarsky,
Professor,
Center for Energy Systems,
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Aerosol in the Arctic Summertime: Particle Formation and Growth, Clouds, and Melting Sea Ice
Jon Abbatt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
Monday, March 5th, 2018
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Smart Grid Seminar
Convex Relaxations of Chance Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
Andreas Venzke,
Electrical Engineering,
Technical University of Denmark,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Robot Planning for Underwater Sensing and Sampling
Gaurav S. Sukhatme,
Dean's Professor and Chairman ,
Department of Computer Science (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering),
USC,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
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