Institute Calendar
February 2021
Friday, February 12th, 2021
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Quantum Field Theory and Beyond
Nathan Seiberg,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Friday, February 12th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Confinement in 4d N=1 from 6d N=(2,0)
Lakshya Bhardwaj,
Oxford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
From quantum error correction to critical theories: A holographic journey
Alexander Jahn,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Interpolated Factored Green Function method for accelerated solution of scattering problems
Christoph Bauinger,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
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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Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Online Event
Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, February 15th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Equidistribution of affine random walks on some nilmanifolds
11:00am
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11:50am
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1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Classical and quantum communication through quantum fields
Eduardo Martin-Martinez,
Associate Professor,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems
Daniela Rus,
Director,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Fooling Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits
William Hoza,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
A Golden Age of Asteroseismology with Kepler and TESS
Tim Bedding,
Professor,
Sydney Institute for Astronomy,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Tropical Pacific climate and El Niño strength during warm climates of the past five million years
Sarah White,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Order-Disorder-Property Relationships in Structural Materials: Guided by Randomness
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Analyzing Text Data Indexed by a Hidden Characteristic: Method and Application to the Study of Media Bias in the U.S.
Yimeng Li,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - What Cosmic Fireworks Unveil About the Universe
Online Event
Mansi Kasliwal,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Mars 2020 Lecture: The Thrill and Terror of Landing a Spacecraft on Mars
Online Event
Rob Manning,
Chief Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 18th, 2021
All Day
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fluid-elastic Structure Interactions: From Fluid-Induced Cracks to Ice-Shelf Disintegration
Ching-Yao Lai,
Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Princeton University,
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Mean curvature flow with prescribed boundary: a dynamical approach to Plateau's problem
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 to April 29, 2021.
Elizabeth Phelps,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Postponed: Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Seminar will be rescheduled for Spring Term
Dr. Darcy McRose (Newman Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Stacking van der Waals atomic layers: quest for new quantum materials
Philip Kim,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Recent Developments on the Swampland Distance Conjecture
Irene Valenzuela,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Biopolitical Battle Lines: Between Eugenics and Black Lives Matter
Edgar Arcenaux,
USC, Artist, Writer/Director,
Ugo Edu,
UCLA,
Kurt Forman,
Independent Artist/Filmmaker,
Ahmad Greene-Hayes,
Princeton University,
Terence Keel,
UCLA,
Hentyle Yapp,
NYU Tisch School of the Arts,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bacterial fluid dynamics
Online Event
Eric Lauga
Eric Lauga,
Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Linking Physics and Knot Theory
Angus Gruen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Saturday, February 20th, 2021
8:30am
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4:30pm
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Sunday, February 21st, 2021
8:30am
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Jenna Reher,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Anticipation and Consumption
Neil Thakral,
Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
On Learning Kernels for Numerical Approximation and Learning
Houman Owhadi,
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
New Roles of the (QCD) Axion in Dark Matter and Baryogenesis
Raymond Co,
University of Minnesota,
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
10:00am
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11:15am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
High-Resolution Optical Frequency Comb Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
Aleksandra Foltynowicz,
Associate Professor and Head f the Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy Group,
Department of Physics,
Umea University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Daniel Pastor Moreno,
Graduate Student,
Aerospace (GALCIT),
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:45am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Dark Matter Photography with DAMIC
Daniel Baxter,
University of Chicago/KICP,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Understanding the formation of jet streams and storms on Saturn and Jupiter using 3D convection simulations
Rakesh K. Yadav,
Research Associate,
Deptartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,