Institute Calendar
January 2021
Friday, January 15th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: "Snowballs in the Desert: Studying Climate Transitions in Earth's Deep Past"
Online Event
Dustin Morris,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
New non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral
Jordan Cotler,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Research and Development on New Energies
Online Event
Dr. Amy Kelly,
Caltech alumni, Geochemistry,
Shell Oil,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Estimating model error using sparsity-promoting ensemble Kalman inversion
Jinlong Wu,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Towards realistic post-merger simulations of binary neutron stars with SphericalNR
Vassilios Mewes,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Computational Astrophysics,
Oak Ridge National Lab,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Online Event
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Xichen Shi,
PhD Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, January 18th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Stationary random entire functions and related questions
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Single-Cell Analysis of Normal and Perturbed Early T Cell Developmental Processes
Wen Zhou,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
8:00am
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10:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Florian Dörfler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers
Stephen Smartt,
Professor,
Queens University Belfast,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Predicting the Course of Covid-19 and other epidemic and endemic disease
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Universal minimal flows of homeomorphism groups of high-dimensional manifolds
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Why is it so hard to model sea ice?
Cecilia Bitz,
University of Washington,
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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● POSTPONED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been postponed.
Yael Niv,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture: an overview and a new paradigm to address multiple solutions
Laura De Lorenzis,
Professor,
Computational Mechanics,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Designing New Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tools to Measure Antibiotic Susceptibility
Emily Savela (Ismagilov Group),
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Neutrino Geoscience: measuring the Earth's neutrino flux and constraining its composition
Hiroko Watanabe,
Tohoku University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
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
Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Rob Myers,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
A family of 3d steady gradient solitons that are flying wings
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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The hydrodynamics of rowing
Online Event
The hydrodynamics of rowing
Jerry Westerweel,
Professor,
Delft University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
All Day
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Generalizing the Double-Copy: Masses and Higher-Derivatives
Callum Jones,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Exploring the Role of Hydrogen Bonding and pKA in the Low Driving Force Proton Coupled Reduction of a Fe Cyanide Complex
Christian Marinelli Johansen,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Identifying ancient asteroid families: prospecting the original planetesimal population
Dr. Bryce Bolin,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy,
Infrared Processing & Analysis Center,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar: Dr. Wei Gao
Online Event
Telemedicine Biosensors for Personalized Healthcare
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED: KNI Distinguished Webinar: Dr. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Online Event
Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA: Repurposing the Blueprint for Life
Chad A. Mirkin,
Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine,
Northwestern University,
- Public Event
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning for Safety-Critical Control in Dynamical Systems
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Modeling and optimizing set functions via RKHS embeddings
David Ginsbourger,
Titular Professor,
Departement of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Bern,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Reverberation mapping black hole accretion flows
Erin Kara,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Online Event
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Salva Salmani-Rezaie,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Understanding Tropical Cyclone Risk: from Mountain Drivers to Economic Impacts
Jane Wilson Baldwin,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Salva Salmani-Rezaie,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
6:30pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Nonlinear wave equations, the weak null condition, and radiation fields
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Representations vs Algorithms: Symbols and Geometry in Robotics
Nicholas Roy,
Professor,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
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Structural Basis for Neutralization of Viruses by Human Antibodies
Dr. Andrew Flyak (Bjorkman Group),
Caltech,