Institute Calendar
May 2020
Monday, May 11th, 2020
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Beyond Diversity: Developing Inclusion Skills to Optimize Outcomes
Sumun L. Pendakur, Ed.D.,
Chief Learning Officer and Director, USC Equity Institutes,
USC Race and Equity Center,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
pezo-1 function in Caenorhabditis elegans
Katherine Brugman,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemistry Club Seminar
Resolving Nano-Bio Interactions at the Single-Construct Level
Teri W. Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Boswell Wing,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Online Event
Corks, involutions, and Heegaard Floer homology
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
David Shih,
New Approaches to New Physics Searches at the LHC: Anomaly Detection and Unsupervised Deep Learning,
Rutgers,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Lia Halloran,
Artist-in-Residence (Spring 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Kip Thorne,
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Harden M. McConnell Lecture
Mass spectrometry: From plasma proteins to mitochondrial membranes
Professor Dame Carol Robinson,
Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Stephen Morris,
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Aida Rehmard,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Elizabeth Bailey,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Online Vector Balancing and Geometric Discrepancy
Sahil Singla,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Exchange Design and Efficiency
Marzena Rostek,
Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Joss Bland-Hawthorn,
ARC Laureate Fellow Professor of Physics,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Beckman Lecture
TBD
Jeffrey Moore,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Andrew Ault,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar
TBD
Cornelis Murre,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Biological Sciences,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
B. Pablo Montagnes,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Emory University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame,
Graduate Student,
Bioengineering,
Howard Hui,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics,
Peter Martin,
Alumnus,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why Does It Matter?
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Mechanics of Soft Active Materials: Characterization, Design, and Functionalization
Ruobing Bai,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Translating RNA Sequence Into Lead Small Molecule Medicines
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, May 15th, 2020
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Holographic duals of refined partition functions
Chiara Toldo,
Ecole Polytechnique,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reduced-order model for dynamic soil-pipe interaction analysis
Kien T. Nguyen,
PhD Graduate Student,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Aspects of reduced-order modeling of turbulent channel flows: From linear mechanisms to data-driven approaches
Ryan McMullen,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELLED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Meaghan Bruening,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 16th, 2020
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 17th, 2020
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 18th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Universality Laws and Performance Analysis of the Generalized Linear Models
Ehsan Abbasi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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5/22
4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Cell-Selective Proteomic Profiling in Complex Biological Systems
Xinran Liu,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Sonia Tikko-Schantz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Physics Seminar
Marcus Cicerone,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Georgia Instititute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Defense
Online Event
Attributes of the [4Fe4S] Cofactor Coordinated by UvrC, a DNA Repair Enzyme
Rebekah Silva,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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3:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Defense
Development of Enantioselective Transition-Metal Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation Methods
Eric Alexy,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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