Institute Calendar
November 2023
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Identification and characterization of topological order without and with tensor networks
Norbert Schuch,
University of Vienna,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Evaluating Instrument Validity using the Principle of Independent Mechanisms
Patrick F. Burauel,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Aperiodic spin chains for discrete holography on hyperbolic tilings
Giuseppe di Giulio,
Institute for Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics,
University of Wurzburg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Characterizing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectral Lines
Jorge Pineda,
ASTHROS Balloon Principal Investigator,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the life and death of Antarctic Bottom Water
Henri Drake,
UCI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Noise Spectroscopy – What Can Electronic Noise Tell Us about the Materials?
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Zachariah Page,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, November 16th, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Injection-induced Seismicity
Maryam Alghannam,
George Housner Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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11:45am
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1:20pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Panel Event
Publishing Your Science: A Roundtable Conversation
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Mirror Symmetry for Nonabelian LG models
Nathan Priddis,
College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences,
Brigham Young University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Towards solution of the many-electron problem for transition states and transition metal containing systems
Sandeep Sharma,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Andrew Buller,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ice sheet and landscape change: Insights from subglacial archives
Allie Balter-Kennedy,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Geometric Eisenstein Series and Torsion Vanishing
Linus Hamann,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories
Lee McCuller,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser,
Assistant Director for Technology Transfer,
Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships,
Caltech,
John Peck,
Partner,
KPPB law firm,
Friday, November 17th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar with Giuseppe Loianno
Re-thinking the Perception-Action Paradigm for Super Autonomous Robots
Giuseppe Loianno,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
New York University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity
Nima Lashkari,
Purdue University,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
Robin Kothari,
Google,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars
Rachel Patton,
Graduate Student,
Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP),
Ohio State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in quantum magnets probed by neutrons
Dr. Chengyun Hua,
R&D Associate, Materials Science & Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Modeling Capability for Hypersonic Flow Physics
Tom Schwartzentruber,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Log-Concavity of the Alexander Polynomial for Special Alternating Links
Elena S. Hafner,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Enantioselective Transition-Metal Catalysis via an Anion-Binding Approach
John Ovian,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in AI in Theoretical Chemistry
Frontiers in AI in Theoretical Chemistry
Frank Noé,
Advancing Physical and Theoretical Chemistry with Deep Learning,
David Limmer,
Variational Deep Learning of Transition Path Ensembles In and Out of Equilibrium,
Michele Ceriotti,
Machine-learning Representations, Beyond Locality,
Pratyush Tiwary,
From Chemical Identity to Boltzmann Ensembles for Proteins, RNA and Crystals with Generative AI and Statistical Mechanics,
Erik Thiede,
Inferring the Distribution of Biomolecular Conformations from CryoEM,
Gábor Csányi,
The MACE Force Field Architecture,
Grant Rotskoff,
Thermodynamically Consistent, Scalable Back-Mapping with Generative Neural Networks,
Cecilia Clementi,
Boris Kozinksy,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Destructive Power of Supershear Ruptures as observed in the devastating, Feb 6th, 2023, Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaras/Pazarcik, Türkiye/Syria Mega-Earthquake
Ares J. Rosakis,
Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces
Amalia Madden,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points with a non-local area law of entanglement
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Endurance: The origin of a mission to explore the farside of the Moon
James Keane,
Scientist,
Small Bodies Group,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
When the Greeks Ceased to be Greek: John Milton and Early Modern Greece
Tomos Evans,
Hellenic Research Fellow at California State University, Sacramento, and an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
8:00am
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11/24
5:00pm
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9:00am
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11/24
4:00pm
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Monday, November 27th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The Summer Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology (CV4E) Progress Review