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Thursday, October 1st, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Adaptive and Active Architected Lattices for Dynamic Applications
Yifan Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

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Bootstrapping quantum gravity
Thomas Hartman, Cornell University,
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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Singularities of thermal correlators at strong coupling
Matthew Dodelson, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00pm 2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science

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Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

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Controlling Labile Metal Ions in Biological Systems?
Justin J. Wilson, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

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Probing interstellar medium and galaxy evolution with infrared emission lines
Shengqi Yang, Graduate Student, The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

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Unsteadiness boundaries in supersonic flow over double cones.
Hans Hornung, C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Concordance invariants from the E(-1) spectral sequence
William Ballinger, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Monday, October 5th, 2020
10:00am 11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

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Recent results from the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment
Clarence Wret, University of Rochester,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

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Roadblocks in AV Development: Simulating Perception Data
Roland Phillipsen, Applied Intuition,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Multiway Cluster Robust Double/Debiased Machine Learning
Yuya Sasaki, Associate Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University,
12:30pm 2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar

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Stark's Conjectures and Hilbert's 12th Problem
Samit Dasgupta, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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Optimization, Control and Learning in Smart Grid
Steven Low, Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Computing + Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Engineering & Applied Science, California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
3:00pm 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Roots of polynomials under repeated differentiation: a nonlocal evolution equation with infinitely many conservation laws (and some universality phenomena)
Stefan Steinerberger, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
4:00pm 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Invariant Gibbs measures for the three-dimensional wave equation with a Hartree nonlinearity
Bjorn Bringmann, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

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Two Young Transiting Exoplanets: One Was, One Was Not
Luke Bouma, PhD candidate, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
Regret Optimal-Control
Babak Hassibi, Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

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Lifting with Simple Gadgets and Applications to Circuit and Proof Complexity
Susanna F. de Rezende, Postdoc, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

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Factor of i.i.d. processes and Cayley diagrams
Riley Thornton, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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The Politics of News Personalization
Anqi Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis,
3:00pm 4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

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The Geometric Satake Equivalence
Victor Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

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Extreme UV Emission: Bridging Galaxy Evolution Across Cosmic Time
Danielle Berg, OSU / UT Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

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The Role of Isopycnal Mixing in Ocean Transport
Ryan Abernathy, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

The Materials Limits(?) of Gravitational Wave Detection
Rana Adhikari, Professor, Physics, California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Can America Have a Safe and Secure Presidential Election?

Online Event
Michael Alvarez, Professor of Political and Computational Social Science, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Multiphase Fluid-Material Interaction: Cavitation Modeling and Damage Assessment
Kevin Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

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Base editing and prime editing: chemistry on the genome without double-strand breaks
David Liu, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Engineering Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery across Length and Time

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Lisa R. Volpatti, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

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Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble
Norman Yao, UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 9th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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"Numerical investigation of compressibility effects in reacting subsonic flows"
Guillaume Beardsell, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

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Central Charges for AdS Black Holes
Maria Rodriguez, Utah State University,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

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Quantum computation and "cyberpunkian" quantum field theory
Junyu Liu, Graduate Student, Cheung, Preskill and Simmons-Duffin groups,
12:00pm 12:50pm
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Caltech-UCLA Logic Seminar

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Part 1 of Martin's conjecture and measure-preserving functions
Patrick Lutz, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

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Nonlinear Matrix Concentration via Semigroup Methods.
De Huang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

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The ongoing hunt for supermassive black hole binaries
Jessie Runnoe, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Physics, Vanderbilt University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

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Dynamic stall onset and the road to recovery
Karen Mulleners, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

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Symmetric knots and the equivariant 4-ball genus
Ahmad Issa, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

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Trying to Prove Einstein Wrong
Agnès Ferté, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, October 10th, 2020