Institute Calendar
October 2021
Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Imaging Stellar Surfaces at the CHARA Array
Theo ten Brummelaar (Director) / Gail Schaefer (Associate Director),
Director, CHARA Array,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Georgia State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Monoterpene Organic Nitrate Formation and Hydrolysis
Sally Ng,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Deepfake, Artificial Intelligence: Will Machines Replace Us All?
Huolin Xin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
8:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake sequence simulations with fault zone fluid flow, pore pressure evolution, and viscoelasticity
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
CDR-target interface design with an expanded chemical space
Jingzhou Wang,
Mayo Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structural biology of telomerase; our winding road from DNA quadruplexes to telomerase structure
Juli Feigon,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fireside Chat
Online Event
Informal chat with Prof. Po-Shen Loh, about taking invention into the real world
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
From fractures to fans: Exploring controls on sediment grain size throughout 3 steep landscapes in southern California
Al Neely,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab's Muon Campus
Chris Polly,
Fermilab,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
The Warm Glow of our Cool Universe
Dida Markovic,
Research Scientist,
NASA/JPL,
Dr. Phil Korngut,
Research Scientist; SPHEREx instrument scientist,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Friday, October 15th, 2021
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Aspects of the black hole/string transition
Yiming Chen,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Probing Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Photonic Resonator Networks
Christian Leefmans,
Graduate Student, Marandi Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
This seminar has been postponed until May 2022 (date TBD).
Myles Jackson,
Professor of the History of Science, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Presents... How to Apply to Grad School
Online Event
Panelists: Katie Bouman (Assistant Professor of CMS, EE & Astronomy, Rosenberg Scholar), Elijah Cole (CMS Grad Student), Angela Gao (CMS Grad Student), Elizabeth Qian (CMS Von Karman Instructor) & Adam Wierman (Professor of CMS/Director of IST)
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
The Chemistry of Quantum Materials
Lesley Schoop,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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Hypersonic Aerothermochemistry: Progress in Computational Chemistry, Experimental Validation, and Sensitivity Analysis
Online Event
Iain D. Boyd
Iain D. Boyd,
H. T. Sears Memorial Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
University of Colorado – Boulder,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Tiny but Powerful: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs
Ilaria Caiazzo,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Saturday, October 16th, 2021
10:00am
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Sunday, October 17th, 2021
7:00am
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
11:00am
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
On p-adic uniformization of abelian varieties with good reduction
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Representation of the semantic structures: from discovery to applications
Serim Ryou,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning Causality and Using Causality for Learning
Kun Zhang,
Associate Professor in Philosophy,
and Affiliate Faculty Member in Machine Learning Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
EFT on the sky: from galaxies to black holes
Mikhail Ivanov,
NYU,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson,
Marine Biologist, Policy Expert, Writer, and Brooklyn Native. She is founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities, and is co-creator and co-host of the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet.,
12:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Oscar Leong
Deep Generative Priors for Inverse Problems
Oscar Leong,
von Karman Instructor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Tracing Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems: From Protoplanets to Young and Mature Planetary Systems
Jiayin Dong,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Cellular Plasticity in Cancer and Development "
Dana Pe'er,
Chair,
Computational and Systems Biology,
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Iwasawa theory in the Gan-Gross-Prasad setting
Shilin Lai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A rational inattention theory of echo chamber
Anqi Li,
Visiting Research Scholar, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Vedika Khemani,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics
Steven Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Systems of Short-Period Exoplanets: Regularities and Anomalies
Sarah Millholland,
NASA Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Paola Cessi,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
The Wonderful World of Mössbauer Resonances: Newer Applications with Synchrotron Radiation
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Megasupramolecules: From Disaster to Discovery
Online Event
Julia A. Kornfield (BS '83, MS '84),
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
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Theory Group Seminar
Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords
Vijay Vazirani,
Distinguished Professor,
Computer Science,
UC, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Unlocking the Biotech Potential of Anaerobic Gut Fungi
Michelle A. O'Malley,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,