Institute Calendar
October 2020
Saturday, October 10th, 2020
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 12th, 2020
10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Peter Arcidiacono,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Uncivil Wars: The Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates
Online Event
Thomas Hollihan,
Professor of Communication,
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism,
USC,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Symmetric power functoriality for modular forms Location
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Discrete Differential Operators on Arbitrary Polygonal Meshes
Mathieu Desbrun,
Carl F Braun Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap
Sam McDermott,
Fermilab,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
9:00am
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9:45am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
How do complex materials form, transform, and transport energy at the nanoscale?
Naomi Ginsberg,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
11:00am
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11:45am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
On the firewall puzzle
Beni Yoshida,
Junior Faculty,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Matching Waveform Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning
Becky Roh,
PhD Graduate Student,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
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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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Mantle differentiation during magma ocean solidification and its implication for early life
Yoshinori Miyazaki,
Postdoc,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar & Alumni Panel with Lam Research CEO Tim Archer
Special KNI Distinguished Webinar & Alumni Panel with Lam Research President and CEO Tim Archer
- Internal Event
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Distributed Statistical Inference under Local Information Constraints
Jayadev Acharya,
Assistant Professor,
Cornell University,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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11:45am
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Hard-to-Interpret Signals
Yoram Halevy,
Professor of Economics and Director of the Toronto Experimental Economics Lab (TEEL),
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
1:00pm
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1:45pm
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3:00pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
Online Event
Introduction to nearby cycles
Frid Fu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Galactic Archaeology with Gaia and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
Keith Hawkins,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A seasonal origin for the Holocene and last interglacial thermal maxima in global temperature reconstructions
Yair Rosenthal,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning Properties of 2D Materials: From Catalytic Activity to Single Photon Emission
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
9:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Learning MPC and its Applications to Robotic Systems
Ugo Rosolia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Using CLEM, cryo-FIB-milling and cryo-ET to image kinetochores and chromatin at different stages of mitosis
Dr. Wei Zhao,
Jensen Group,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Division of Biology and Bioengineering Virtual Speaker Series
Online Event
Non-Academic Research Careers
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Netta Engelhardt,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Galaxy of Horrors: Terrifying Real Planets
Online Event
Speaker to be Announced,
- Public Event
Friday, October 16th, 2020
8:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Non-perturbative physics for JT gravity and supergravity
Clifford Johnson,
University of Southern California,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Scrambling and Branching
Yingfei Gu,
IFQ Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Kitaev Group,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Uncomfortable (Bodies in the Archive)
Dorit Cypis,
PeoplesLab,
Monique Thomas,
Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Competitive Optimization and Factorization by KL-Minimization
Florian Schaefer,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Going local: the Galactic center as a case study of binaries in a galactic nucleus
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Photophoretic levitation as a new mechanism of flight
Igor Bargatin,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM),
University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
10:00am
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