What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Prof. Tom Abel, Stanford University When: Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM Where: Marcus Nanotechnology Building Building Room 1116 Title: Dark Matter: and how we would not be alive without it

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Sukesh Roy, Spectral Energies When: Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 3:30 PM Where: Montgomery Knight Building Room 317 Title: Ultrafast Laser-Based Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy/Imaging for the Development of Next Generation Propulsion Systems

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Prof. Glenn Sjoden, Georgia Institute of Technology When: Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Applications of Radiation Transport Computations in Reactor Physics and SNM Detection Applications

What: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Who: Dr. Arthur Bergles, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute When: Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Energy and Water Nexus: Critical for the 21st Century

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Michael Griffin, Schafer Corporation When: Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM Where: Guggenheim Building Room G442 Title: Why Do We Want to Have a Space Program?

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University When: Monday, September 10, 2012 at 4:30 PM Where: Clough Commons Building Room 144 Title: Robust principal component analysis? Some theory and some applications.

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University When: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Skiles Building Room 006 Title: PhaseLift: Exact Phase Retrieval via Convex Programming

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, Georgia Institute of Technology When: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Research Poster Presentations

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. David J. Mooney, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University When: Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: IBB Building Room Atrium Title: Biomaterials to Program Cells in situ

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Ted Liang and Spencer Mickum, GT-NRE/MP Programs When: Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Parameterization of Mis-steered Electron Beams for SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) (/p)(p) High Activity-Active Well Coincidence Counter Monte Carlo Verification Analysis (/p)