Institute Calendar
May 2022
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Strong ergodicity phenomena for Bernoulli shifts of bounded algebraic dimension
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Optimization of Distribution Power Networks: From Single-Phase to Multi-Phase
Fengyu Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of Sagittarius A*
Geoff Bower,
Research Astronomer,
ASIAA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Acceleration of tropical cyclone development by cloud-radiative feedbacks
Allison Wing,
Florida State University,
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
Online Event
Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein,
Professor of Economics,
Rutgers University,
Chan Shen,
Associate Professor,
Penn State,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Dr. Paula T. Hammond,
Institute Professor and Department Head,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 19th, 2022
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems
Andrew Singletary,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Concentration enrichment, separation, and ion exchange in nanoliter-scale water-in-oil droplets
Robbyn K. Anand,
Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Iowa State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Srirang Manohar
Online Event
A photoacoustic-ultrasound transmission breast tomography system: system overview and first imaging results
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Prediction of GPCR-G protein complex structures and the activation mechanism"
Dr. Moon Young Yang,
(Goddard group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Searches for New Physics with Quantum Sensors in the Laboratory and in Space
Marianna Safronova,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Frances Arnold,
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Dr. Paula T. Hammond,
Institute Professor and Department Head,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 20th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
A Bubble is Born: Nucleation and Early Growth of CO2 Bubbles in Polymer Foams
Andrew Ylitalo,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Error Correcting Codes in CFTs
Al Shapere,
University of Kentucky,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Narrow transparency and collective emission in an ensemble of rare-earth ions coupled to a nanophotonic cavity
Mi Lei,
Graduate Student, Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging Common Structure for Prior-Free Image Reconstruction
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The alternation number and the Upsilon-invariant at 1 of positive 3-braid knots
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn,
Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cilia Powered Pumps
Eva Kanso,
Professor and Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Mathematics of Privacy and Synthetic Data
Roman Vershynin,
Professor of Mathematics / Associate Director,
Department of Mathematics / Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of California Irvine,
Saturday, May 21st, 2022
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 23rd, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Electrochemical Processes for More Practical and Effective Onsite Wastewater Treatment
Seungkyeum (Sean) Kim,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"PiRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Genome Defense and in Development"
Katalin (Kata) Fejes-Toth,
Research Professor,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Networks based on Integrated Diamond Photonics
Daniel Assumpcao,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Formation, Abundance, and Evolution of Molecular Products in α-Pinene and β-Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol
Christopher Kenseth,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Optical variability of intermediate-mass black holes and implications for their identification
Colin Burke,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Reactivity of Alkyl MFe3S3 Clusters Towards Bridging Carbynes and Carbides
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:15pm
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6:15pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Compact-to-Dendritic Transition in the Reactive Deposition of Brownian Particles
Daniel Jacobson,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Finding large additive and multiplicative Sidon sets in sets of integers
Yifan Jing,
University of Oxford,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structure and function of the human nuclear pore complex
Stefan Petrovic,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Synthetic Studies of the Polycyclic Furanobutenolide-Derived Cembranoid and Norcembranoid Diterpenoids
Nicholas Hafeman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Aida Behmard,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
Nicole L. Wallack,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Neural Circuits that Generate Persistent Behavior States in C. elegans"
Steven Flavell,
Associate Professor,
Brain and Cognitive Science,
MIT,
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
11:00am
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11:45am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Deep denoising for scientific discovery
Carlos Fernandez-Granda,
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Science and Center for Data Science,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Machine Learning for Cosmic Explosions: Algorithms to Applications
Edo Berger,
Professor of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Rapid Breast Cancer Pathology Tissue Evaluation Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Diana Mojahed,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A nutrient relay sustains subtropical ocean productivity
Mukund Gupta,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,