Institute Calendar
February 2024
Thursday, February 1st, 2024
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A New Way to Image Atoms
David Muller,
Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering,
School of Applied and Engineering Physics,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deep profiling of the single-cell proteome: potential for next-generation spatial-omics"
Wan Rion Marion (Marion) Pang,
Roukes & Chou Groups,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
KLRW algebra from Floer theory
Peng Zhou,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
q-Series invariants of plumbed manifolds
Josef Svoboda,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Eli Levenson-Falk, USC
On-demand loss in a superconducting quantum circuit
Eli Levenson-Falk,
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy and of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the K-theory of Z/p^n
Achim Krause,
Mathematisches Institut,
Universitat Muenster,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?
Axel Brandenburg,
Nordita & KITP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
From Atoms to Evolution: Dissecting Enzymes in High-Throughput
Margaux Pinney, Ph.D.,
Sandler Faculty Fellow,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
12:00am
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2/23
11:59pm
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8:00am
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2/8
11:59pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs
Andreas Karch,
UT Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building quantum networks: from solid-state defects and Rydberg atoms in cavities to a new scientific frontier with hybrid quantum systems
Aziza Suleymanzade,
Harvard,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Avenues in mechanics of materials with full field X-ray measurements
Angkur Shaikeea,
Assistant Professor,
University Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Heegaard Floer symplectic cohomology and generalized Viterbo's isomorphism
Roman Krutowski,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ignoranic-Organometallics Seminare
Developing New Spectroscopic Observables to Probe Spin Relaxation Mechanisms
Nathanael Kazmierczak,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 5th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility (EBEF)
Nate Glasser,
Director,
Resnick Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar
Experimental prototype of a phase-insensitive quantum filter for sensitivity enhancement of gravitational-wave detectors.
Artemy Dmitriev,
- Internal Event
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy
Sandip Trivedi,
TIFR, Mumbai,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Structures and dynamic processes in Earth's mantle from seismic anisotropy
Jonathan Wolf,
Graduate student,
Department of Earth Planetary Sciences,
Yale University,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Adiabatic quantum computations with three-dimensional Rydberg atom graphs
Minhyuk Kim,
Korea University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar
The Fuzz: Frederick Wiseman's Law and Order and the Shadow of Police Radio
Jason Hill,
Associate Professor of Art History,
University of Delaware,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Validating Cellular Life and Extant Biological Process from Martian Analog Brines and Evaporites
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Gerry Rubin
Illustrating the power of connectomics: circuit mechanisms that gate the salience of visual cues in Drosophila
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The action of geometric entropy in topologically massive gravity
Molly Kaplan,
UC Santa Barbara,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stretched horizon, replica trick, and off-shell winding condensate, and all that
Indranil Halder,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
The Euler equations with a free interface
Igor Kukavica,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Formed Too Fast? Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
Caitlin Casey,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ecology and Biosphere Engineering at the Resnick Sustainability Center
Nate Glasser,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, February 8th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Contraction Theory for Optimization, Control, and Neural Networks
Francesco Bullo,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
How Much Income Inequality is Fair? A Surprising Answer to a 200-year-old Question.
Venkat Venkatasubramanian,
Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Karen Christman
Biomaterials for Treating the Heart
Karen Christman, Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Pierre Galletti Endowed Chair for Bioengineering cInnovation, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Welfare, Jaobs School of Engineering,
University of San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Uniform irreducibility of Galois action on the p-primary part of Abelian 3-folds of Picard type
Mladen Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Lille,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic power of neutron stars
Andrei Beloborodov,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanism and function of accurate stress response silencing
Diane Haakonsen, Ph.D.,
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, February 9th, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
Gabriel Cuomo,
Princeton & NYU,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Magnetic Noise Injection Scripts and Preliminary Results for The Virgo Detector
Catalina Miritescu,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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