Institute Calendar
October 2021
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
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Geology Club Seminar
Geological and Hydroclimatic Controls on Fluvial Morphology and Alluvial Environments
Kieran Dunne,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution
Steven M. Girvin,
Department of Physics & Yale Quantum Institute,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar-Dr. Hirotake Komatsu
Online Event
Bridging between clinic and engineering: development of oxygen-transporting mesh for cell transplantation
Dr. Hirotake Komatsu, MD,
Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Translational Research & Cellular Therapeutics, Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism,
Research Institute of City of Hope,,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Noninvasive Imaging of Gene Expression in the Brain
Shirin Shivaei,
Shapiro Group,
Caltech,
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Imaging the quantum extremal surface
Adam Levine,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Enzymatic Synthesis of the Organometallic H-Cluster of [Fe-Fe] Hydrogenase
R. David Britt,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards Many-Body Quantum Simulations of Interacting Bosons in Circuit QED
Steven M. Girvin,
Department of Physics and Yale Quantum Institute,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Genealogies of the University
Mordechai Feingold,
Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Coloured Jones and Alexander polynomials unified through Lagrangian intersections in configuration spaces
Cristina Anghel,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Geneva,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Vortex-Wave Interaction Theory: Exact Coherent Structures & Roughness
Online Event
Philip Hall,
Professor of Mathematics,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Firm Commitments
Patrick Bolton,
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business,
Graduate School of Business and Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
4:15pm
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6:15pm
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Photography on Campus: Zaroukian Party
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Monday, October 25th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Bias in cubic Gauss sums: Patterson's conjecture
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Neural Operator: Learning in Infinite Dimensions with Applications to PDEs
Animashree Anandkumar,
Bren Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collider physics tools for classical gravitational wave observables
Enrico Herrmann,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"Planetary Defense from Asteroids" and "Gravitational Waves Probing The Big Bang"
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Pan Xu
Sample-Efficient Nonconvex Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning Talk
Pan Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Exploring the free-floating planet population with gravitational microlensing
Przemek Mroz,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
University of Warsaw,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Degree vs. Approximate Degree and Quantum Implications of Huang's Sensitivity Theorem
Shravas Rao,
Postdoc,
Northwestern University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Decoding the Entanglement Structure of Monitored Quantum Circuits
Beni Yoshida,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Potential singularity of 3D incompressible Euler equations and the nearly singular behavior of 3D Navier-Stokes equations
Thomas Yizhao Hou,
Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Stellar Evolution in AGN Disks
Adam Jermyn,
Flatiron Research Fellow,
Flatiron Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tracing the New Arctic
Monica Martinez Wilhelmus,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
First Principles Simulations of Hybrid Inorganic Interfaces
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cellular NeuroMechanics – Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury and the mysterious Havana Syndrome
Christian Franck,
Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Computational investigations of nucleic acid secondary structure thermodynamics"
Mark Fornace,
Pierce Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structural insights into lipid transport, transfer and secretion
Filippo Mancia,
Associate Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics,
Columbia University Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A 3.5 billion-year record of deep-ocean dissolved O2 from the oxidation state of iron in submarine basalts
Daniel Stolper,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Away from Equilibrium: Shining New Light on Quantum Matter
Prineha Narang,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Tech Talk: Software That Never Fails and Cannot Be Hacked
Dan O'Dowd,
CEO, Green Hills Software,
Friday, October 29th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Improved quantum error correction using soft information
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Supercritical percolation on finite transitive graphs
Philip Easo,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Fracture Mechanics of Coilable Ultra-thin Composite Shell Structures
Online Event
Armanj Hasanyan,
Postdoctoral Researcher GALCIT,
3:00pm
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
3:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Valencia Wedding Party
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