Institute Calendar
January 2023
Monday, January 16th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Yiran (Isabella) Yang
Online and In-Person Event
Laser-engraved Wearable Sweat Sensor for Metabolic Monitoring
Yiran (Isabella) Yang,
MedE Ph.D. Candidate,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Unravelling biomolecular structure, interactions and dynamics with mass photometry
Philipp Kukura,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? Evidence from the Coastal Barrier Resources System
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Fellow, Resources for the Future; Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
How to simulate quantum measurement without computing marginals
Sergey Bravyi,
IBM Quantum,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
On the maximum and expected complexity of maxout networks
Guido Montúfar,
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics,
Departments of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Where There's a Wobble There's a Way: New Astrophysical Insights from Pulsating Stars (and Planets)
Jim Fuller,
Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics,
TAPIR,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Asset Pricing with Higher Order Beliefs
Kaushik Vasudevan,
PhD Candidate in Financial Economics,
Yale School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate mitigation and adaptation solutions to food, energy, and water systems
Lorenzo Rosa,
Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: When Earth Breathed Deeply
Online and In-Person Event
Claire E. Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology; Biedebach Memorial Lecturer,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Near-Wake Dynamics of Cross-Flow Turbine Arrays
Isabel Scherl,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Towards the Molecular Mechanism of Cotranslational Nascent Protein Acetylation"
Dr. Alfred Lentzsch,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shan Group,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Bioinspired friction of soft materials
Prof. Lilian Hsiao,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Gerrymandering when Turnout Rates Differ
Allison Stashko,
Assistant Professor,
David Eccles School of Business,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability of deep crustal settings
Min Song,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Stable Isotope Laboratory,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Angular Momentum Radiation in Field Theory and Gravity
Aneesh Manohar,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
"Thermodynamic principles of redox biochemistry & Illuminating the biochemical black box of M. tuberculosis"
Dr. Adrian Jinich,
HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
School of Medical Sciences,
Weill Cornell Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Doubling Down on Perovskites: Double and 2-D Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronics and Solid Refrigerants"
Dr. Adam Slavney,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Environment,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 20th, 2023
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
Holographic Codes in CFT
Thomas Hartman,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Illuminating Bioelectricity in the Brain
Dr. He Tian,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Cohen Lab,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Vortex rings in compressible interfacial flows relevant to inertial confinement fusion and supernovae
Michael Wadas,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Magnetoelectric Materials for Wireless Neuromodulation and Bioelectronic Medicine
Josh Chen,
PhD candidate,
Bioengineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EAS Young Investigators Series - Josh Chen
Magnetoelectric Materials for Wireless Neuromodulation and Bioelectronic Medicine
Josh Chen,,
PhD candidate in Bioengineering, Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Extending periodic maps over the 4-sphere
Shicheng Wang,
Peking University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Thermochemistry of Proton-Coupled Ln(II) Reductants that Enable Selective Fe-Catalyzed N2-to-N2H4 Conversion"
Emily Boyd,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, January 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Soil-dwelling nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum as a vector for engineered E. coli
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Transient Science with TESS
Michael Fausnaugh,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
The Mean-Field Ensemble Kalman Filter
Andrew Stuart,
Bren Professor,
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
Presupernova Neutrinos from Massive Stars as Probes of New Physics
Yong-Zhong Qian,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Gaplessness from symmetry in twisted cuprates and Dirac materials in periodic magnetic field
Xue-Yang Song,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Heterogeneous gradient flows with applications to collective dynamics
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Illposedness for vortex patches of the Euler and alpha-SQG equations
Xiaoyutao Luo,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Does the axiom of Dependent Choices imply the axiom of Countable Choices, locally?
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Masers with linewidth well below the standard quantum limit and an unrelated discussion of machine learning electronic structure
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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