Institute Calendar
October 2020
Sunday, October 25th, 2020
5:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Robert C. Hurt,
Graduate Student,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Mackenzie Strehle,
Graduate Student,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
- Public Event
Monday, October 26th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
Cadence and Computational Software: Electronic Design Automation and Machine Learning
Elias Fallon,
Cadence,
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
Strategic Party Resource Allocation in US Congressional Elections
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
On the locally analytic vectors of the completed cohomology of modular curves
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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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Topological Tools for Understanding Complex Systems
Michelle Feng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem
Seth Koren,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Hybrid Metal-Organic Interfaces for a Selective Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
Alonso Rosas,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"New Horizons and Pluto: An Adventure to the Outer Solar System" and "Fast Radio Bursts: A Mystery Solved?"
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric and Astrochemical Radical Reactions
Joseph Messinger,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer,
John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Probing the dynamics of planet and satellite formation using isotopes
Francis Nimmo,
Professor,
Earth & Planetary Sciences Department,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
The long and short of stochastic stability in multi-agent systems
Jeff Shamma,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Adversarially Robust Learnability: Characterization and Reductions
Omar Montasser,
Graduate Student,
TTIC,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum simulation and quantum computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays
Harry Levine,
Graduate Student, Lukin Group,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Combining knowledge and data driven methods for solving inverse imaging problems - getting the best from both worlds
Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb,
Professor of Applied Mathematics and head of the Cambridge Image Analysis (CIA) group,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP),
University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Some Simple Concepts & Their Consequences in Covalent Mechanochemistry
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Signaling with Private Monitoring
Gonzalo Cisternas,
Class of 1954 Career Development Associate Professor,
Applied Economics Group,
MIT Sloan School of Management.,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Integrable Kondo line defect, 4D Chern Simons, and ODE/IM correspondence
Jingxiang Wu,
Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
Online Event
Beilinson-Drinfeld Grassmannians and factorization structures
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
Feedback and Feeding: The Circumgalactic Medium of Star-Forming Galaxies during Cosmic Noon
Gwen Rudie,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Is Global Warming Inhibiting an Incipient Ice Age?
George Philander,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Orbital Degeneracy Lifting: Broken Local Symmetries and their Orderings in Interesting Electronic Materials
Simon Billinge,
Professor,
Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University,
Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Online Event
Alpine Adventures in the Time of Corona
William Nicolas,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Biology & Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 29th, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Mode coupling and late-time asymptotics of linear waves on rotating black holes
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Simulation and Modeling of High-Speed Disperse Two-Phase Flows
Jesse Capecelatro,
Assistant Professor,
Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of biological membranes
Kranthi Mandadapu,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Division of Biology and Bioengineering Virtual Speaker Series: Science Communication Careers
Online Event
Venture Capitalism as a Career
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Caltech, quantum teleportation, and GKP qubits
Akira Furusawa,
University of Tokyo,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Friday, October 30th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
A Theory of Trotter Error
Yuan Su,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Brandao Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Histories of Eugenics: The Human Betterment Foundation and Beyond
Natalie Lira,
University of Illinois,
Ayah Nuriddin,
Johns Hopkins University,
Alexandra Minna Stern,
University of Michigan,
Sandy Rodriguez,
Independent Artist,
Virginia Espino,
UCLA,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Predicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements
Robert Huang,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Between the Disk and the Star: Boundary Layers of Astrophysical Accretion Disks
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Formal Methods for Control Synthesis of Autonomous Systems
Online Event
Formal Methods for Control Synthesis of Autonomous Systems
Tichakorn (Nok) Wongpiromsarn,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Iowa State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Generalized soap bubbles and the topology of manifolds with positive scalar curvature
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
The ODE/IM solution of integrable Kondo problems
Davide Gaiotto,
Perimeter Institute,