Institute Calendar
May 2022
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The number of ergodic models of an infinitary sentence
Rehana Patel,
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo's Black Holes
Maya Fishbach,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Elastic and inelastic collisions, probed with transient sub-Doppler spectroscopy"
Gregory Hall,
Sr. Chemist Emeritus,
Chemistry,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Caltech's Energy Transition
John Onderdonk,
Interim Associate Vice President for Facilities,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella,
Research Group Leader,
Department of Organometallic Chemistry,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita,
Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: What Entanglement Can Tell Us About Our World
Online and In-Person Event
Scott K. Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
- Public Event
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 12th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Investigating the Mechanism of Nitrogenase Reduction with Proton Inventory Studies
Siobhan MacArdle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Poroelastic Spherical Indentation for Material Characterization
Haiying Huang,
Associate Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Keynote
"My Journey to Democratizing Healthcare"
Vicky Demas,
CEO of Tesseract,
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
"Developing Improved Acoustic Reporter Genes for Non-invasive Continuous Ultrasound Imaging of Mammalian Cellular Activity in vivo"
Mengtong (Tom) Duan,
(Shapiro Group),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Demetrios Christodoulides
Optical thermodynamics of nonlinear highly multimode systems
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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MedE Ph.D. Defense, Vincenzo Costanza
Online and In-Person Event
Thermally Responsive Polymers for Wearable Calorimeters
Vincenzo Costanza,
Medical Engineering PhD Student,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
The Impact of ETF Index Inclusion on Stock Prices
John Duffy,
Professor of Economics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
GPS Outreach-Outdoors: 2 years of progress in inclusive field-based educational outreach
GPS Outreach-Outdoors,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation
Fostering a reflective mindset
Michele DiPietro, PhD,
Executive Director, Faculty Development and Recognition,
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning,
Kennesaw State University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Elucidating Metalloenzyme Mechanisms Through Protein-Based Models.
Hannah S. Shafaat,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
The Ohio State University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Do current pollution monitoring networks give a false sense of security? First results from the world's largest dense sensor network
Matthew S. Johnson,
Professor, American atmospheric chemistry scientist,
Chemistry,
University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Mechanical Approach to Active Matter: Reverse Osmotic Effect and Motility-Induced Phase Separation
Hyeongjoo Row,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Progressive, Extrapolative Machine Learning for Turbulence Modeling
Xiang Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Neutron Stars: Where Extreme Gravity Meets Extreme Matter
- Public Event
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
9:30am
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3:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 15th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, May 16th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Shanice Webster,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biology,
Duke University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Unravelling binary and multiple star formation
Rajika Lakmali Kuruwit,
University of Copenhagen,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Rheological Characterization of Polymer Additives for Mist Control and Drag Reduction
Red Lhota,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyls: Mechanistic Studies and Catalysis for the Synthesis of Functionalized Polyolefins
Shouyan Xiong,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ravinder Dahiya
Online and In-Person Event
High-Performance Printed Electronics for Robots and Interactive Systems
Professor Ravinder Dahiya, FIEEE, FRSE, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and EPSRC Research Fellow,
Electronics and Nanoengineering,
James Watt School of Engineering,
University of Glasgow, UK,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation
Revising Our Teaching: Three Questions to Guide the Next Course
Joseph Lampert, PhD,
Interim Director,
Center for Teaching & Learning,
University of Chicago,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Eric Ambrose,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Adversarial Machine Learning and Instrumental Variables for Flexible Causal Modeling
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Two Analogues of the Euclidean Spherical Maximal Function on Heisenberg Groups
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta,
research staff scientist,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecular design blueprints: materials and catalysts from new simulation and machine learning tools
Heather J Kulik,
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Benjamin Idini,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
Yayaati Chachan,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022