Institute Calendar
November 2022
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
Giulia Brancaccio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics, Stern School of Business,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
11:00am
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Importance of Brown Dwarfs
Jacqueline Faherty,
Senior Scientist & Senior Education Manager,
Department of Astrophysics,
American Museum of Natural History,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anthropogenic Aerosols as a Driver of Regional Climate Risk
Geeta Persad,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Costly monitoring in signaling games
Tommaso Denti,
Assistant Professor and Salvatore Faculty Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Ductile and Brittle Fracture of Polycrystals
Jean Michel Scherer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"No Rest for Electrons: The Mechanisms of Biological Phenazine Redox Reactions"
Lev Tsypin and John Ciemniecki,
Newman Group,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Gut microbiota suppress feeding induced by palatable foods
James Ousey,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
1:30pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Sander Weinreb, Caltech/JPL
New Era Radio Astronomy – Objectives and Technology
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Interrogating a Protein's Energy Landscape: From Protein Folding to Coronavirus
Susan Marqusee,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology,
Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
User-Programmable Hydrogel Biomaterials to Probe and Direct 4D Stem Cell Fate
Prof. Cole De Forest,
Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor and Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering,
University of Washington,
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Geology Club Seminar
Grain size segregation in bedload transport
Philippe Frey,
Senior Scientist,
INRAE,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Vicki Colvin
The Invisible Hand: How Giant Susceptibility Nanomaterials Enable Field-Directed Cell Sorting, Tissue Heating, and Biological Imaging
Vicki Colvin, Professor of Chemistry and Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum sensing and imaging with diamond spins
Ania Bleszynski Jayich,
UC Santa Barbara,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 11th, 2022
8:30am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How the black hole got its horizon: chaos, complexity and randomness
Vijay Balasubramanian,
University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
New approaches for near-term quantum computers from quantum process shadows to more efficient variational quantum algorithms
Bryan Clark,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cusps of cusps: a universal model for extreme scattering events in the ISM
Dylan Jow,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Toronto,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Recent Progress in Aeronautical Sciences: Vibrational Stabilization in Insect Flight & a Variational Theory of Aerodynamics
Haithem Taha,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
3:30pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Towards consistent nonlinear filtering in high-dimensions
Ricardo Baptista,
von Karman Instructor in the Department of Computing + Mathemtical Sciences,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Disk-like surfaces of section and symplectic embeddings
Oliver Edtmair,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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杯酒谈天线上直播 (Astronomy on Tap, Chinese)
Online Event
"Solar System's End" and "Slitless Spectroscopy"
- Public Event
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 12th, 2022
5:30am
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Sunday, November 13th, 2022
3:00pm
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Monday, November 14th, 2022
9:00am
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Organometallic Chemistry at Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Surfaces
Emily Tsui,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Tools for Measuring the Cosmic Molecular Gas History
Ryan Keenan,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Inelastic momentum transfer in tsunami earthquakes
Göran Ekström,
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Geometric Measure Theory for Convexifying and Compactifying Computational Problems
Albert Chern,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering Department,
University of California - San Diego,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion hot dark matter bound, reliably
Giaocchino Piazza,
IJCLab, Orsay,
4:00pm
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History Seminar Series
The Edge of Understanding: Science in a Bordered World
Yangyang Cheng,
Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center,
Yale Law School,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Scalable Quantum Technology for Dynamic Molecular Imaging
Thomas Theis,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Physics,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
EXTRACTING DATA FROM UNCOMMUNICATIVE WORLDS
Sam Cabot,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Gerrymandering the Swing Voters
Allison Stashko,
Assistant Professor,
David Eccles School of Business,
University of Utah,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Calculating the Length of Life in the Sixteenth Century: Arabic Astrology and Humanist Reforms
Margaret E. Gaida,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Polish modules over subrings of Q
Dexuan Hu,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,