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Monday, October 2nd, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Measuring charge carrier and structural photodynamics at solar energy material surfaces using transient extreme ultraviolet reflection spectroscopy
Jonathan Michelsen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Virtu Finance Tech Talk
Joe Danzer,
Strategy Developer,
Virtu Finance,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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10/3
6:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
A Data-Driven Approach to Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
Tamma Carleton,
Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, Climate Change,
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Tracking water resources and probing Earth structure with space geodesy
Hilary Martens,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
University of Montana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Light Shining Through a Thin Wall: Evanescent Hidden Photon Detection
Ryan Janish,
Fermilab,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Rosen Center Seminar
Proteins as Mechano-Chemical Switches as Probed in Healthy and Diseased Organs
Viola Vogel,
Professor,
Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, Department for Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST),
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Katherine de Kleer,,
Assistant Professor, Hufstedler Family Scholar,
Planetary Science and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Yuk L. Yung,
Professor & Senior Research Scientist,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology & JPL,
Mike Brown,
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy and the Terence D. Barr Leadership Chair and Director of the Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering
Fusing machine learning and simulations for molecular design
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Chair, Associate Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Grey Galaxies: The Endpoint of Superradiant Instabilities in Rotating AdS Black Holes
Jaeha Lee,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Online Event
Quantum Hamiltonian Descent
Xiaodi Wu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm
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3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Bounding spectral gap for Laplacian and Dirac operator
Yixin Xu,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Origin of Cosmic Rays: Updates from Multi-Messenger Observations
Nahee Park,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy,
Queen's University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From leaves to ecosystems: new insight into plants from novel remote sensing observations
Xi Yang,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Design and Discover of New Correlated Electron Systems: Exploring New Materials Space
Paul Canfield,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Iowa State University,
Senior Scientist at Ames Laboratory,
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
All Day
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Canceled: Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Jacob Robinson
Minimally invasive brain interfaces using magnetic materials
Professor Jacob T. Robinson,
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Rice University. Co-Founder and CEO, Motif Neurotech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical CO2 Flows Through Microtubes
Hojin Ahn,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Yeditepe University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Open/closed correspondence and mirror symmetry
Song Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Lecture
Metal ions as dynamic crosslinkers for polyelectrolyte gel networks
Pierre Walker,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew J. Sinclair,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Asymptotics for the site frequency spectrum associated with the genealogy of a birth and death process
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
Jack Harris,
Yale,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Poisson Boundaries Without Moment Conditions
Joshua Frisch,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
Friday, October 6th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries
Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring high-amplitude quantum motion in a nanogram object
Jack Harris,
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,
Yale,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A tale of two objects: binary formation, evolution and distribution
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, October 7th, 2023
8:00am
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Monday, October 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Atmospheric methane: where did you come from, where did you go?
Alexander Turner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
Universtiy of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory
Wouter Dekens,
INT, University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Probing post-measurement entanglement without post-selection
Sam Garratt,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love,
Novelist,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
8:00am
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices
David A. Mazziotti,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
David Stephenson,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor , Emeritus,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Heather Knutson,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropy Vector Dynamics from Cayley Graphs
William Munizzi,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Ensemble Kalman methods: statistical theory in high and infinite dimension
Daniel Sanz-Alonso,
Assistant Professor Department of Statistics (CAMI),
Department of Statistics (CAMI) and the College Member: Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM),
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
The Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Diversity and Conviction Rates
Joanna Huey,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantifying emergent effects through homological algebra
Johnny Jingze Li,
Mathematical Neuroscience Lab,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
From Exoplanets to the Solar System: Rocky Planet Formation in a New Light
Hilke Schlichting,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meagan Mauter,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
More than physics, more than data: Integrated machine-learning models for chemistry
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Understanding and predicting radiation-matter interactions through atomistic modeling
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
Emily Adlam,
Assistant Professor,
Schmid College of Science and Technology,
Chapman University,