Institute Calendar
February 2024
Friday, February 9th, 2024
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lightweight Discrete Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials
Kenneth Cheung,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
3- and 4-dimensional invariants of satellite knots with (1,1)-patterns
Holt Bodish,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Expanding Rh-Catalyzed Nucleophile Additions to Electron-Deficient Dienes
Christopher Cooze,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, February 12th, 2024
9:00am
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9:01am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
There and back again: A journey to the base of a tectonic plate
Samer Naif,
Assistant Professor,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology and the high-redshift Universe
Nashwan Sabti,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy of Quantum Matter
Ismail El Baggari,
Principal Investigator and Fellow,
Rowland Institute,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Robust G-Invariance in G-Equivariant Networks
Nina Miolane,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Computational catalyst design accelerated by machine learning with "Center-Environment" features: from spinel to perovskite oxides
Yi Liu,
Professor of Materials Science,
Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University,
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- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter with DMRadio
Chiara Salemi,
SLAC,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Extensions and the Twice-punctured Sphere
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Quantum Error Correction: From Noncommutative Geometry to Celestial CFT
Yangrui Hu,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
The Southern California Seismic Network: Earthquake Monitoring Operations & Research
Gabrielle Tepp,
Seismo Lab,
Caltech,
Ellen Yu,
Seismo Lab,
Caltech,
Ettore Biondi,
Seismo Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from JWST
Daniel Stark,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Seeing Antarctica with New Eyes
Britney Schmidt,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers
Maxwell J. Robb,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Valuing Technology
Hanna Breunig,
Deputy-Head,
Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems Department,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Towards sustainable materials from biological matter: leveraging macromolecular composition, bonding motifs and hierarchical structure to tailor mechanical performance
Eleftheria Roumeli,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Localized catalytic DNA circuits for scalable molecular computation on a surface"
Samuel Davidson,
PhD Student,
Qian Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Filling Legendrians with barcodes
David Nadler,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Integrality of mirror maps and arithmetic homological mirror symmetry
Sheel Ganatra,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Devices Seminar, Rabia Yazicigil
The Circuit Frontier: Innovating and Expanding ASIC Solutions for Enhanced Biosensing and Seamless Wireless Communication
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
An Euler system for the Adjoint of a modular form
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Opportunities for Machine Learning in Physics
Max Welling,
University of Amsterdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Structural insights into Integrator-dependent RNA polymerase II regulation
Isaac Fianu, Ph.D.,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Germany),
Friday, February 16th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings
Marija Tomasevic,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Inverted oscillators for testing gravity-induced quantum entanglement
Youka Kaku,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Interpretable Expressivity Separations in Trainable Quantum Machine Learning
Eric Anschuetz,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
CANCELED! To be rescheduled.
Dr. Qinheng Zheng,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting large baryonic feedback around DESI photometric galaxies
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Novel Hydrodynamic Non-Equilibrium Model for Hypersonic Flows
Marco Panesi,
Professor, Director of Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS),
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Freedman's Link Packing Question
Elia Portnoy,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemical Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of C=C Bonds Enabled by PCET Mediator
Mingli Li,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Water and Redox Evolution in Earth's Mantle
Junjie (JJ) Dong,
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Comparative Planetary Evolution,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Chasing the Solar Atmosphere using Eclipses and the Parker Solar Probe
- Public Event
Saturday, February 17th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 18th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 19th, 2024
All Day
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9:00am
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
All Day
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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Special AMO Quantum Seminar
Novel strategies for hardware-efficient quantum processors
Harry Levine,
AWS Center for Quantum Computer (Caltech),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Complex saddles and possible chaos in string scatterings
Takuya Yoda,
Kyoto University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Graph learning models: theoretical understanding, limitations and mitigation
Yusu Wang,
Halicioglu Data Science Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Characterizing distant Solar System objects in the era of large scale surveys
Pedro Bernardinelli,
DiRAC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology,
University of Washington,