Upcoming Seminars

• Special Event: Two Seminars on Titan (1)
  Kim R. Reh, Phase II NASA study of the Titan Orbiter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  Lees-Kubota Lecture Room
  101 Guggenheim Laboratory, Caltech
  
  
• Special Event: Two Seminars on Titan (2)
  Jonathan Lunine, Planetary Science and Physics, University of Arizona
  Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  Lees-Kubota Lecture Room
  101 Guggenheim Laboratory, Caltech
  
  

2008 Seminars

• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Dynamical boundaries in a variety of mechanical systems
  Dr. Shane Ross, Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  114 Steele (CDS Library) Bldg #81
  
  
• THESIS DEFENSE: Resource Optimization for Networked Estimator with Guaranteed Estimation Quality
  Ling Shi
  Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  114 Steele (CDS Library)
  
  
• Two Lunchtime Seminars: Information Structures, Convexity, and Linear Optimality; and Using Game Theory for Distributed Control Engineering
  Mike Rotkowitz, Fellow, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne
  
  Monday, Jul. 21, 2008, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
  214 Steele (second floor of Steele)
  
  
• Modular Cell Biology: Retroactivity and Insulation
  Domitilla Del Vecchio
  Monday, Jun. 9, 2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  114 Steele (CDS Library)
  
  
• Thesis Defense: Generation of Potentials for the Self-Assembly of Particles
  Katalin Grubits
  Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2008, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  214 Steele
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Geometric Numerical Integration of Differential Equations
  Dr. Reinout Quispel, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  Wednesday, May. 28, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  114 Steele (CDS Library)
  
  
• Dynamic output feedback stabilization of the 3 state Moore-Greitzer compressor model
  Anton Shiriaev
  Thursday, May. 22, 2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  Steele Library (Room 114)
  
  
• Sensorimotor Convergence in Natural Systems and Applications for Autonomous Microsystems
  Dr. J. Sean Humbert
  Tuesday, May. 20, 2008, 11:00 PM to 12:00 PM
  Steele Bldg. Room 114 (Library)
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Hidden convexity in some geometric nonlinear PDEs
  Yann Brenier, CNRS, Universite de Nice
  Thursday, May. 1, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  114 Steele (CDS Library)
  
  
• Task-Induced Reduction with Applications to Needle Steering
  Vinutha Kallem
  Monday, Apr. 28, 2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  Steele Bldg. Room 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• Approximating Stochastic Biochemical Networks
  David Thorsley
  Thursday, Apr. 24, 2008, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  Steele 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Integrable systems for real time simulation of fluid flow
  Dr. Ulrich Pinkall
  Friday, Mar. 21, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  114 Steele (CDS Library)
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Mathematical model that leads to novel strategies for support of the immune system for patients undergoing chemotherapy
  Dr. Vered Rom-Kedar, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
  Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Steele 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Markovian approaches to approximate modeling for decision and control
  Dr. Sean Meyn, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Steele 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• On Pseudospectral Methods of Nonlinear Optimal Control
  Dr. Wei Kang, Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
  Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Steele 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Swimming of a Deformable Body due to Transverse Shape Deformations
  Dr. Eva Kanso, Department of Aerospace and Mechancial Engineering, University of Southern California
  Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Steele 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• CDS/CIMMS Lunchtime Seminar: Modified Optimal Prediction and its Application to a Particle-Method Problem
  Dr. Alina Chertock, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
  Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Steele 114 (CDS Library)
  
  
• ACM/CDS COLLOQUIUM: Geometrization of Continuum and Discrete Mechanics
  Dr. Arash Yavari
  Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM
  306 Firestone