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)

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Jacob L. Jones, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida When: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Mechanics of Smart Materials Origins of Property Coefficients from in situ X-ray and Neutron Scattering

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Dr. Derek Jokisch, Marion Frances University When: Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Charged Particle Dosimetry in the Human Skeleton

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Dr. Eike Hohmann, Paul Scherrer Institute When: Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Radiation protection at the Paul Scherrer Institute

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Prof. Russell R. Barton, The Pennsylvania State University When: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: ISyE Building Room Executive Class Room 228 Title: Metamodel-Assisted Input Model Uncertainty Characterization