Institute Calendar
November 2020
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Machine learning and partial differential equations (PDEs)
Eric Vanden-Eijnden,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Courant Institute, NYU,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
TBD
Marian Walhout,
Professor,
Molecular Medicine,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death
Andrew Vanderburg,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Wisconsin,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Webinar: Presidential Leadership in Human Space Exploration Yesterday and Today
Online Event
- Public Event
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
A new approach to contextual bandits
Sasha Rakhlin,
Associate Professor,
Center for Statistics, IDSS / Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
A Dichotomy for Real Boolean Holant Problems
Shuai Shao,
Graduate Student,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Career Chat with an Atypical Astronomer: A path through research, outreach, and policy
Online Event
Anjali Tripathi,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Admissible Matchings in the School Choice Problem
Philip Reny,
The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Linear codes with Constrained Generator Matrices
Hikmet Yildiz,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
Online Event
Factorization, Beĭlinson-Drinfeld Grassmannians, and the fusion product
TBA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Direct Collision of White Dwarfs as a Possible Major Channel for Type Ia Supernovae
SuBo Dong,
Associate Professor,
Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Peking University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Online Event
Growing the Nearly Impossible: Routes to Stabilize Metastable Phases
Lauren Garten,
Jerome and Isabella Karle Distinguished Scholar Fellow,
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Using Stoichiometry and Elemental Composition to Explore Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
Claudia Benitez-Nelson,
University of South Carolina,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - The Power of Nonlinearities: Unlocking Opportunities for Sensing and Computing with Light
Online Event
Alireza Marandi,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Enjoyable, Knotty Problems on Shoestrings
Oliver O'Reilly,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A case for integrating solar geoengineering into climate policy
David Keith,
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Structures of human antibodies bound to SARS-CoV-2 spike reveal common epitopes and potential therapeutic strategies
Dr. Christopher Barnes (Bjorkman Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Direct observation of anyonic braiding statistics
Michael J. Manfra,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Online Event
Ideal and Illusion: The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla
W. Bernard Carlson,
Joseph L. Vaughan Professor of Humanities; Chair, Engineering and Society Department; Professor of History, University of Virginia,
- Public Event
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - How Failure Helps us Succeed: The Agony & Inspiration of Defeat
Online Event
Rob Manning,
Systems Engineer/Engineering Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, November 13th, 2020
11:00am
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3:30pm
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► CANCELED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
This symposium has been canceled.
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Generalized hyperpolygons, meromorphic Higgs bundles on curves, and integrability
Steven Rayan,
University of Saskatchewan,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Hierarchy of light cones in power-law interacting systems: review of recent bounds and saturating protocols
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen,
Graduate Student, Brandao Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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What is Caltech's Diversity Bonus?
Online Event
Scott Page,
John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Bounded-confidence models for network extensions
Michelle Feng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Deployable Robots via Origami-Inspired Design
Online Event
Deployable Robots via Origami-Inspired Design
Cynthia Sung,
Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) Computer and Information Science (CIS),
University of Pennsylvana,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Compactness and partial regularity theory of Ricci flows in higher dimensions
Monday, November 16th, 2020
12:00am
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11/30
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Closed Form Estimators for a Class of Semiparametric Multinomial Choice Models
Dan Ackerberg,
Addison Baker Duncan Centennial Professor of Economics,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
An asymptotic version of the prime power conjecture for perfect difference sets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Sparse Integer Solutions of Systems of Linear Equations
Jesus De Loera,
Discreet and Computational Mathematics Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The LZ dark matter experiment: Development, construction and current status
Kelly Stifter,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Ligand-Induced Fe-to-Cp* H-Atom Migration from Cp* FeIII-H Generates a Potent C-H PCET Donor
Dirk Schild,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
12:00am
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11/30
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12:50pm
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LIGO Seminar
Online Event
Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
Sharan Banagiri,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
BV and Sobolev continuity for maximal operators
Cristian González-Riquelme,
IMPA,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
The Paleoinclination of the Ancient Lunar Magnetic Field from Apollo 17 Basalts
Claire Nichols,
Associate Professor of the Geology of Planetary Processes,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Oxford,