Institute Calendar
February 2024
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanisms and consequences of interbacterial warfare
Prof. Joseph D. Mougous,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lynn M. and Michael D. Garvey Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology,
Department of Microbiology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Molecules For Dark Matter Detection
Benjamin Lillard,
University of Oregon,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Scaling for Growth: Technology to Product
Zainub Noor,
Director,
Scouting and Innovation,
Halliburton Labs,
Scott Gale,
Executive Director,
External Engagement,
Halliburton Labs,
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
All Day
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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
An all-orders 2d chiral algebra for 4d form factors
Victor Fernandez,
University of Washington,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Transitions between harmful, benign and no overfitting in neural networks
Michael Murray,
Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
The Southern California Seismic Network: Earthquake Early Warning Operations and Research
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Entanglement-Enhanced Bioimaging and Sensing
Manni He,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Classically forbidden regions in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene
Michael Hitrik,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Brown Dwarfs: Extrasolar Comparative Magnetospheric Physics
Melodie Kao,
Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fate and transport of PFAS in soils: controlling processes, mathematical formulation, and practical modeling approaches
Bo Guo,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
A chemical biology approach to decoding caspase-6 in cell death and disease
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Single-phase inverter control techniques for interfacing renewable energy sources with micro-grid – Parallel/Series connected inverter topologies
Sanjib Kumar Panda,
Associate Professor and Director, Power & Energy Research Group,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
2D or not 2D: Towards Routine Three-Dimensional Imaging of Individual Atoms Using Electron Microscopy
Colum O'Leary,
STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Extreme Aerodynamics: Analysis and Control for Flight in Highly Gusty Conditions
Kunihiko "Sam" Taira,
Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Reconstructing Cell Histories in Space"
Duncan Chadly,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry Seminar
Towards quantitative and universal single molecule biophysics and mass photometry
Philipp Kukura,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Translation of Microneedle Technologies from the Lab to the Clinic
Mark Prausnitz - Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Understanding conditions on early Earth and Mars using high-resolution paleomagnetism
Roger Fu,
John L. Loeb Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Michael I. Miller
Molecular Computational Anatomy: From Euler to Dirac
Dr. Michael I. Miller, Bessie Darling Massey Professor and Director of Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University,
Co-director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Anticyclotomic Euler systems for Conjugate-dual Galois representations
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
Topology and "impossible" electronic devices
Andrea Young,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Digital Reconstruction and the Identification of Gothic Design Plans
Meredith Cohen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Art History,
UCLA,
Kristine Tanton,
Associate Professor of Medieval Art,
Department of Art History and Film Studies,
Université of Montréal (UdeM),
- Public Event
Friday, February 23rd, 2024
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11:00am
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Science Journey: Chaos, Turbulence, and the Beauty of Uncertainty in Complex Systems
Tanner D. Harms,
Caltech graduate student,
Aerospace,
- Public Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Emergence and breakdown of the membrane picture in Brownian models
Shreya Vardhan,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:45am
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1:15pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Have we seen a demonstration of experimental quantum advantage?
Bill Fefferman,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Borrowing Transcriptional Kinases to Activate Apoptosis
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Delayed Explosions of Red Supergiants Following "Failed" Supernovae
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Fault-tolerant Coding for Quantum Communication
Matthias Christandl,
University of Copenhagen,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling deformation and load in periodic discrete structures
Cosima du Pasquier,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Formal Test Synthesis and System-level Evaluation for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the topology and index of minimal/Bryant framed surfaces
Franco Vargas Pallete,
Department of Mathematics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Theoretical Prediction of Mechanochemical Molecular Motion on Curved Graphene
Sayan Banerjee,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Earthquake Phase Association with Graph Neural Networks: Applications on Local to Global Scale
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Magnetism and superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene multilayers: triplet superconductivity, intervalley coherence, and spin orbit coupling
Andrea Young,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Saturday, February 24th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 25th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 26th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
More than a phase: Uncovering the structure of materials with electron phase retrieval techniques
Stephanie Ribet,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
National Center for Electron Microscopy,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Emergent Properties From Dynamicity: Investigating Conformational Control in Biomimetic Inorganic Systems."
Lisa Olshansky,
Assistant Professor, Materials Research Lab,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Dawn of the Anthropocene: How humans in a warming climate drove Pleistocene mammal extinctions and re-shaped California's landscapes
Emily Lindsey,
Assistant Curator and Excavation Site Director,
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and Adjunct Faculty in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
The Synergy between Machine Learning and the Natural Sciences
Max Welling,
Distinguished Scientist at MSR AI4Science & Research Chair,
Department of Machine Learning,
University of Amsterdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational Waves from NNaturalness
Akshay Ghalsasi,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Roles of UFMylation in protein quality control
Yihong Ye,
Deputy Chief,
Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
8:00am
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2/28
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1:00pm
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Special AMO Seminar
Dipolar quantum phases emerging in a Hubbard quantum simulator
Lin Su,
Harvard University,