Institute Calendar
January 2024
Monday, January 15th, 2024
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition: Collider-Gravitational Wave Complementarity
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
UMass Amherst,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Europa's Exosphere in and out of Jupiter's Shadow
Apurva Oza,
Postdoc,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Do Standard Error Corrections Exacerbate Publication Bias?
Patrick Vu,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC)
Ken Van Tilburg,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Nonlinear interactions of multiple wave fronts
John Anderson,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Linear-in-temperature conductance in electron hydrodynamics
Leonid S. Levitov,
Professor of Physics,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Edan Lepucki reads from and discusses Time's Mouth: A Novel
Edan Lepucki,
Lecturer in Creative Writing,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:40am
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11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Low entanglement states in black holes and many-body systems
Zixia Wei,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Ultrafast photoexcitation and propagation of coherent magnons
Changmin Lee,
Professor,
Hanyang University (Korea),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Motion from Shape Change
Peter Schröder,
Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in the Milky Way
Ana Bonaca,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
(Re)defining the roles of phage in microbiomes
Karthik Anantharaman,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Boosted Higgs production and smart trackers of the future
Jennet Dickinson,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Lie Groups and Hierarchy for Neural Visual Representations
Christian Shewmake,
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience & Vision Science Group,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Heterogeneity and fluctuations in nanoscale materials transformations unveiled via in-situ liquid phase TEM
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products
Dr. Richmond Sarpong,
Executive Associate Dean,
College of Chemistry,
University of California - Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, January 18th, 2024
All Day
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cooperative Data-Driven Modeling
Miguel Bessa,
Associate Professor of Engineering,
School of Engineering,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Cohomological properties of cyclic coverings
Tariq Syed,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Asymptotic characters of modules for parity KLR algebras
Anne Dranowski,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Artificial Intelligence and Three-Dimensional In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy: From High Spatial Resolution to High Autonomies, From High Dimensions to High Statistical Reliability
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Towards understanding the role of transport in electrocatalysis: the role of dimensionless analysis and multi-scale modeling
Carlos G. Morales-Guio,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
How Anti-ESG Pressure Affects Investment: Evidence from Retirement Savings
Jane Danyu Zhang,
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Emergent dynamics of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators
Seung-Yeal Ha,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Seoul National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Wei Gao, Ph.D.
Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors
Wei Gao, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
mod p analogue of Mumford-Tate and André-Oort conjectures for GSpin Shimura varieties
Ruofan Jiang,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Moiré Materials
Allan H. MacDonald,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel, Darwin, and Lysenko on Heredity
Ute Deichmann,
Professor, Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The frog model on trees
Matt Junge,
Baruch College, Department of Mathematics,
CUNY,
Friday, January 19th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The g-function and Defect Changing Operators from Wavefunction Overlap on a Fuzzy Sphere
Yijian Zou,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer TMDs
Allan MacDonald,
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics,
University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Formation of a Protostar and a Protoplanetary Disk: Universality and Diversity
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka,
Professor,
Nagoya University,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Coating Thermal Noise - Reaching New Limits in Precision Laser Stabilisation
Namisha Chabbra,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 was achieved in inertial fusion
Omar Hurricane,
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff & Chief Scientist for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, Design Physics (DP) Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Subsidizing Industry Growth in a Market with Lemons:Evidence from the Chinese Electric Vehicle Market
Jingyuan Wang,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Kirby and the Skein Lasagna Module of $S^2 \times S^2$
Melissa Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Evolution of continental lithosphere: Insights from the eastern margin of North America
Sunday, January 21st, 2024
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The Resnick High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC)
Jin Chang,
Chief Information Officer,
Office of the CIO,
Caltech,
Aaron McKinnon,
Associate Director,
Academic Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions: Estimates, Beliefs and Behavior
Christoph Semken,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fluid transport in planetesimals and implications for early-stage planet formation
Zhongtian Zhang,
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Dimension-free inequalities: a tale of two possibilities.
Grigoriy Blekherman,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing dark matter with cosmic voids
Elena Pinetti,
Fermilab & KICP,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
11:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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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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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Some Mathematical Aspects of Modern Machine Learning
Mikhail Belkin,
Halicioglu Data Science Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Polarimetric Observations of HD 156623's Debris Disk with the Gemini Planet Imager
Briley Lewis,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Testing Sign Agreement
Deborah Kim,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar- CANCELLED
Online and In-Person Event
Nelson-Barr solutions to the strong CP problem
Clara Murgui,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona / IFAE,