Institute Calendar
November 2023
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Scale invariance and rate of nuclear reactions
Subham Chowdhury,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Robust Estimation of Risk Preferences
Aldo Lucia,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been postponed.
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The First Glimpse of the First Galaxies with JWST
Rohan Naidu,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
This Seminar has been POSTPONED
Michael Wara,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and exploration of new topological magnetic texture in frustrated magnets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Special Seminar
Can computers be trained as porous media experts?
Peyman Mostaghimi,
Professor of Minerals and Energy Resources,
Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering,
University of New South Wales,
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
10:00am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Judith Su
Ultra-sensitive, selective, and label-free optical sensing for fundamental science, environmental monitoring, and translational medicine
Judith Su,
Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering and Optical Sciences,
University of Arizona,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Hodge theory, modular forms, counting curves on surfaces, and maybe some other stuff
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics
Julia Gonski,
SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century South
Elizabeth Cascio,
Professor of History,
Dartmouth College,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, November 3rd, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Large-scale aggregation of distributed energy resources: dynamic network access and competitive aggregations
Cong Chen,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Electrical Engineering,
Cornell University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Probing phonon transport across vacuum and across solid-state spins
Zhujing Xu,
postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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EAS Trailblazers Symposium
Model Reduction for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems using State and Randomized Gradient Data
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories
Prahar Mitra,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Physics and Engineering of Extremely Moisture-Capturing Hydrogels for Freshwater Production and Energy Storage
Carlos D. Diaz-Marin,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MedE: EAS Trailblazers Symposium-Anqi Zhang
Minimally invasive neuroelectronics
Anqi Zhang, Ph.D.,
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow,
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Privacy Preserving Signal
Kai Hao Yang,
Assistant Professor,
School of Management,
Yale 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
Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers
Yiran Zhang,
Nadj-Perge group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Heavy element nucleosynthesis & energetic neutrinos from highly magnetized outflows
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
A Hierarchical Perspective on Robotic Control
Noel Csomay-Shanklin,
Graduate Student,
Control and Dynamical Systems Computational and Mathematical Sciences Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) and a Policy Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Space Resource Utilization
Maya Nasr,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
"Engineering-Based Interventions for Airborne Disease Transmission"
Linsey C. Marr,
Charles P. Lunsford Professor and University Distinguished Professor,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Splitting spheres in S^4
Maggie Miller,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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11/4
8:00pm
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Saturday, November 4th, 2023
8:00pm
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Sunday, November 5th, 2023
3:00pm
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
8:45am
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12:30pm
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9:00am
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9:45am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Dynamic Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders: Evidence from the Online Advertising Market
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geomorphic and sedimentological controls on the global sulfur cycle
Jordon D. Hemingway,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
ETH Zürich Geological Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Closing the Loop in ML: Theory & Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Decision Systems
Lillian J. Ratliff,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter
Prineha Narang,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion
Renske Van der Veen,
Associate Professor and Department Head at Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy Berlin,
Department of Chemistry,
Helmholtz Centre Berlin and the Technical University Berlin.,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Hidden water deep in the interiors of exoplanets
Caroline Dorn,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Spending Constraints: Why City Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods
Julia Payson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
UCLA,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
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10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Poincaré generators of spinning binary in the post-Minkowskian approach
Sangmin Lee,
Seoul National University,
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Cognitive Hierarchies in Multi-Stage Games of Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiment
Po-Hsuan Lin,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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