Institute Calendar
April 2023
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Towns and Agriculture in Times of Serfdom: An Economic Success or an Economic Failure?
Alex Klein,
Deputy Head of School and Reader in Economics,
School of Economics,
University of Kent,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Lower bounds on the top Lyapunov exponent of Galerkin-Navier-Stokes and other stochastic differential equations
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
Yunmi Kong,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Mean field theory in Inverse Problems: from Bayesian inference to overparameterization of networks
12:00pm
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4/21
7:00pm
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1:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The Local Lemma in descriptive combinatorics: survey and recent developments
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with ALMA
Fabian Walter,
Senior Staff Scientist,
MPIA Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
The Great Carbon Arbitrage
Alissa Magdaleen Kleinnijenhuis,
Research Fellow,
Department of Finance,
Imperial College Business School - London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Variability in Northern Hemisphere carbon exchange -- from diurnal to multi-decadal
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Alumni Fireside Chat - Scientist Turned Venture Capitalist
Jason Holt,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Electrifying and Decarbonizing Chemical Synthesis
Online and In-Person Event
Karthish Manthiram,
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
9:00am
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4/21
5:00pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Porous Media Flow and Reactive Transport Phenomena: Accounting for the Underlying Structural Heterogeneity
Veronica L. Morales,
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Allosteric Modulation of an Alpha5 Containing Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"
Chris Marotta,
Grubbs Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Redox-Activated Covalent Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces
Maureen B. Morla,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Social Sciences History Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Stefanie Stantcheva,
Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Information-preserving Dimensionality Reduction for High-dimensional Small-sample Data
Aditi Jha,
PhD Candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Christopher Contag
Advances in Imaging and Sensing are Redefining Health and Disease
Christopher H. Contag, Ph.D.,
James and Kathleen Cornelius Endowed Chair, Director, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory
Clay Cordova,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, April 21st, 2023
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Strategies for the Mechanically Triggered Release of Small Molecules
Corey C. Husic,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Chiral Symmetry
Clay Cordova,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Behavioral Causal Inference
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University and University College London,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Laser spectroscopy of molecular vibrations
Kon Leung,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Dr. Patrick Slade
Personalizing Assistive Devices in the Real-world
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Rethinking basic assumptions in reward learning
Todd Hare,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Zurich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Worldtube excision method for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: scalar-field model in 3+1 dimensions
Nikolas Wittek,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flume Studies of Gaps, Plumes, and Particles in a Canopy Mixing Layer: Application to Wildfire Spread
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Dow Lecture in Organometallic Chemistry
Harnessing of Excited States Through Molecular Design – From Discrete Metal-Ligand Chromophores to Supramolecular Assembly and Functions
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam,
Philip Wong Wilson Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2023
Monday, April 24th, 2023
9:45am
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11:15am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Thermally and mechanically responsive platforms for functional polymeric materials
Brooke Versaw,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Inorganic Phototropism: Emergent Properties Directing Growth of Mesostructured Semiconductors
Madeline Meier,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Synthetic Chemistry for Carbon Management."
Matthew W. Kanan,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Prospects for Detecting Gaps in Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in M31 and Other External Galaxies with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Christian Aganze,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Petrologic Tools for Determining Rates of Magma Ascent in Explosive
Madison Myers,
Assistant Professor Committee Member Chair Earth Sciences Montana State University,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
An Adjoint Method for the Nonlinear Boltzmann Equation
Russel E. Caflisch,
Director and Professor of Mathematics,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Photons with Multiple Leptons
Matheus Hostert,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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