Institute Calendar
February 2023
Friday, February 10th, 2023
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yu Sun
Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
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
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Guy Gur-Ari,
Google Research,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin,
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, February 10th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Simons theories at finite N and k
Shiraz Minwalla,
TaTa Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Employing a Ferrocene-based Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mediator in Photoelectrocatalysis
Catherine Romero,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, February 11th, 2023
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar
Towards the Ultimate Solver(s) for Wave Equations in the Time Domain
Thomas Hagstrom,
Professor of Mathematics,
Center for Research Computing,
Southern Methodist University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community
Dr. Edray Goins,
Professor,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Pomona College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Thirtysomething black holes
Lieke van Son,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows
Mahyar Kargar,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Gies College of Business,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Climate controls on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover
Valier Galy,
Associate Scientist W/Tenure,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Synthesis for robotics - what can go wrong?
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3
Christina Gao,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum simulators: from the Fermi Hubbard model to quantum assisted NMR inference
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand,
Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang,
Product Lead,
DALL·E,
- Public Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and gene editing
Monica Neugebauer, Ph.D.,
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Exoplanets and the Road to the Radius Gap
James Rogers,
Postdoc,
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Lower bounding the description complexity of quantum states
Chinmay Nirkhe,
IBM Quantum,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Theories of Planet Formation
Eve Lee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Atomic-Scale Design at the 2D/3D Interface
Kate Reidy,
PhD candidate,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title: TBD
Eviatar Bach,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Imaging the Ultrafast Dynamics of Excitons in Atomically Thin Semiconductors
Alice Kunin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, February 16th, 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
Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Properties Using an Energy-based Poromechanics Model
Dr. Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
California Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Fast, accurate ranking of engineered proteins by receptor binding propensity using structure modeling"
Xiaozhe Ding,
Gradinaru Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ehrenfest's theorem beyond the Ehrenfest time: non-singular classical limit for general open systems
Jess Riedel,
NTT Research,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Eigenvalues of minors of random matrices and roots of derivatives of random polynomials
4:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Valuing Technology Workshop
Hanna Breunig,
Deputy-Head of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Posterior Implementability in an N-Person Decision Problem
Axel Niemeyer,
PhD student in Economics,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Infinite trees in the arboreal gas
Noah Halberstam,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Algebraic and p-adic aspects of L-functions, with a view toward Spin L-functions for GSp_6
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Understanding Mechanisms for Creating Complex Materials with Built-In Cross-Coupled Responses
Nicole Benedek,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Distinct circadian transcription programs converge to regulate behaviour
Deniz Top,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dalhousie University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
VOAs and RG flows in 4D N=2 Theories
Jacques Distler,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring Arbitrary Physical Properties in Analog Quantum Simulation
Minh Tran,
MIT/IBM,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Tale of two topics: Bubbles for imaging, therapeutics and tissue engineering and A pair of drops in a viscoelastic medium
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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