Institute Calendar
February 2023
Saturday, February 18th, 2023
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
C-C Coupling and Site Differentiation in Reaction with Carbon Monoxide at an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Model of FeMoco
Linh Le,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
- Public Event
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 20th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Moiré Materials and their New Degrees of Freedom
Yuan Cao,
PhD,
Harvard University,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Evolution of the Chinese Firm: Contracts, Hierarchical Management, and Corporate Personality in Shanxi Merchant Enterprises
Matthew Lowenstein,
Hoover Fellow,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Nonlocal particle approximations of the porous medium equation and applications to sampling and two-layer neural networks
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
Nicolas Delfosse,
Microsoft Quantum,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamics on homogeneous spaces: a quantitative account
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Jupiter's Deep Winds and Mercury's Enigmatic Magnetic Field
Hao Cao,
Assistant Professor,
Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Unramifiedness of weight 1 Hilbert Hecke algebras
Mladen Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Lille,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan,
Winter 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Christof Koch
Building and Operating Brain Observatories – What Have We Learned?
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Leveraging "partial" smoothness for faster convergence in nonsmooth optimization
Damek Davis,
Associate Professor,
Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Star and Cluster Formation in Nearby Galaxies
Janice Lee,
Chief Scientist,
NSF's NOIR Lab,
Gemini Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Moist convection drives an upscale energy transfer at Jovian high latitudes
Lia Siegelman,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Nanoconfined fluids in low-dimensional solid state systems: recent advances & perspective
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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4:30pm
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10:30am
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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
Multiphysics Simulations Using Phase-Field Modeling
Hector Gomez,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"A selectivity filter in the EMC limits protein mislocalization to the ER"
Masami Hazu,
Graduate Student,
Voorhees Group,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Phase Separation in Biological Cells: lessons from and for physics
Samuel Safran,
The Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Professorial Chair,
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-adic Artin formalism for the triple product of modular forms
Aprameyo Pal,
Harish-Chandra Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Transport in 2D Superconductors and Semiconductors
Jeanie Lau,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Pinocchio's Ancestry: a Social and Cultural History of Automata in the North Italian Renaissance
Cristiano Zanetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the History of Science,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 24th, 2023
9:30am
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2/25
4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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
Coupled minimal models revisited
Conor Behan,
Oxford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computing over the rainbow: from scalable qumodes to scalable Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubits
Olivier Pfister,
University of Virginia,
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
On the modeling of black hole ringdown: quasi-normal modes and graybody factors
Naritaka Oshita,
Special Postdoctoral Researcher,
Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS),
RIKEN,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Theoretical guarantees for the shifted QR algorithm
Jorge Garza Vargas,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Can Exoplanets Keep Their Atmospheres Long Enough for Life to Develop?
- Public Event
Saturday, February 25th, 2023
10:00am
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, February 26th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 27th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Solution-Phase Routes to Inorganic Solid-State Materials"
Alina Schimpf,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
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
Connecting the disk dispersal phase to magnetic morphology-driven stellar spin-down
Kristina Monsch,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Swarm-Based Gradient Descent Method for Non-Convex Optimization
Eitan Tadmor,
Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
SMEFT, loops and all that
Michael Trott,
Neils Bohr Institute and Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?
4:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
The many phases of the cell
Krishna Shrinivas, Ph.D.,
NSF-Simons Fellow of Quantitative Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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