Institute Calendar
October 2022
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Desiccation and Recognition: Competing Pressures at the Periphery of a Social Insect Colony"
Thomas Naragon,
Parker Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
An interplay between order and disorder in proteins regulates transcription elongation
Vaclav Veverka,
IOCB Prague,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
MgO, the simplest oxide?
June Wicks,
Assistant Professor in Earth & Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Theta functions on the $n$-fold metaplectic cover of $GL(2)$ and the non-vanishing at the center of the critical strip of symmetric cube $L$-series
4:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Ion Transport in Charged Polymer Electrolytes: The Pursuit of High Li+ Transference Number"
Bryan D. McCloskey,
Department Chair and Warren & Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
The mpEDMD algorithm: Structure-preserving and rigorous Koopmanism
Matthew Colbrook,
Assistant Professor in DAMTP,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar, Professor Zhenpeng Qin
Nanoscale Interface with the Brain Using Light and Advanced Nanomaterials
Zhenpeng Qin, Associate Professor, Fellow and Eugene McDermott Professor,
University of Texas at Dallas,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, October 21st, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10/23
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entanglement Bootstrap and Remote Detectability
John McGreevy,
UC San Diego,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Uncovering the Galactic Black Hole Population with Gravitational Microlensing
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mixing, Morphology, and Melting in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence
Blair A. Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Professor Jürgen Götz
Opportunities and challenges of ultrasound-mediated neuromodulation and drug delivery from the perspective of a biologist working in the Alzheimer space
Professor Jürgen Götz,,
Inaugural Director of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland,
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
8:15pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk
Cadence Design Systems: When is enough? Making that critical tape-out decision
Bahadir Erimli,
Application Engineer Group Director,
Cadence Design Systems,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Duality of central charges in boundary conformal field theory and its application to SLE
Nam-Gyu Kang,
KIAS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Localizations and Lenses: Looking towards Cosmology with CHIME/FRB Outriggers
Calvin Leung,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planet Formation in our Solar System and Beyond
André Izidoro,
Welch Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
Rice University, Houston Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium Series
Stable Nearly Self-similar Blowup of the 2D Boussinesq and 3D Euler Equations with Smooth Data
Thomas Yizhao Hou,
Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department,
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
Cosmology of Axion Rotation
Keisuke Harigaya,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
10:30am
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The dissipative Aw-Rascle system: existence theory and hard-congestion limit
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Defense
The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Methods for Application in Total Synthesis
Alexander M. Shimozono,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ab initio approaches to nonequilibrium interactions and transport in matter
Prineha Narang,
Howard Reiss Development Chair,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Thermal tides in the Martian atmosphere during aphelion season
Siteng Fan,
Postdoc,
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique,
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE Business School,
University of Navarra,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Big Ramsey degrees and Galvin-Prikry theorems for binary free-amalgamation classes
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Mean-field games
Levon Nurbekyan,
Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate: Insight from Manipulating Adsorbate Affinity
Kesley A. Stoerzinger,
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering,
Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
Anna Ho,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Party in the microbe dorms: Microbial element cycling in sediment of the oxygen-deficient Santa Barbara Basin
Tina Treude,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Microsoft Research New England,
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Statistical Mechanics of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
Alex Hansen,
Centre Director for PoreLab and Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine
"In situ Structural Biology Using Cryo-Electron Tomography"
Mohammed Kaplan,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jensen Group,
12:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Crystallography and Cryo-EM : At odds or in harmony?
Gabriel Lander,
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology,
Scripps,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Alluvial fan formation on Earth and Mars
Claire Mondro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology,
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
Black holes and random matrices
Stephen Shenker,
Stanford University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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