Institute Calendar
May 2024
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Studying nonlinear dynamics using polynomial optimization
David Goluskin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Victoria,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Exploring Nature's Fingerprints with Isotopic Distributions
Timothy Csernica,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stellar Processes Around Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Centers
Re'em Sari,
Professor,
Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science,
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiphase chemistry of atmospheric brown carbon
Christopher Hennigan,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An Enriched Category Theory of Language
Tai-Danae Bradley,
Sandbox AQ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From functional oxides to qubits, how electron ptychography is opening new avenues to characterize materials
James LeBeau,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
All Day
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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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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Auctions, preferences, and wearable robots: the development of meaningful exoskeletons and robotic prostheses
Elliott J Rouse,
Associate Professor,
Neurobionics Lab; Depts. of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Havellockate and Investigation into Chiral Pd Enolates: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Application
Melinda Tsam Mang Chan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"CryoEM structures of mechanosensitive channel of large conductance"
Xiang Feng,
Research Specialist,
Rees Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From the early Universe to colliders: Low-scale leptogenesis
Yannis Georis,
Louvain University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Improvement of microbial detection and analysis techniques in complex biological environments
Michael Porter,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech (Ismagilov Group),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Organometallic and Electrochemical Applications Enabled by Novel Weakly-Coordinating Anions
Meaghan Bruening,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED - Chemical Engineering Seminar
Delivering RNA outside the liver by testing thousands of LNPs in vivo
James Dahlman,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Some results on the weight part of Serre's conjecture
Daniel Le,
Department of Mathematics,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound
Brad Ramshaw,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What are cognitive costs?
Thomas F. Icard,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech; Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Visualizing Molecular Machines in Motion through Cryo-EM, Cryo-ET, and Deep Learning
Joseph (Joey) Davis,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, May 24th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Certifying almost all quantum states with few single-qubit measurements
Mehdi Soleimanifar,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Double White Dwarf Binaries, their explosions and their survivors
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Unsteadiness: instabilities and fragmentation
L. Bourouiba,
Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Area estimates and intersection properties for minimal hypersurfaces in space forms
Jonathan Zhu,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Probing Generality in Proton-coupled Electron Transfer Mediator Design via Carborane Redox".
Enric Adillon,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, May 27th, 2024
All Day
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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CANCELED - Harden M. McConnell Lecture
Magnetic resonance one spin at a time
Joerg Wrachtrup,
Professor, Head of Department,
3rd Institute of Physics and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,
University of Stuttgart,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Variable Outflows and Multi-planet Systems: A Survey of Atmospheric Escape" & "Spectroscopy of Outer Solar System Small Bodies with JWST"
Morgan Saidel,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Matthew Belyakov,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - *rescheduled*
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology with varying constants: hyperlight, coupled scalars across cosmic history
Masha Baryakhtar,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Machine Learning as a Tool for Discovery: Applications to Behavioral Economics and Other Inscrutable Sciences
Sendhil Mullainathan,
Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science,
University of Chicago Booth,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Hyperbolic Mass in 2+1 Dimensions
Raphaela Wutte,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Adversarial training and the generalized Wasserstein barycenter problem
Matthew Jacobs,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Borel graphable equivalence relations
Patrick Lutz,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Exploring the Photophysics and Reactivity of Ni–bipyridine Cross-coupling Catalysts
David Cagan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Mass Transfer and Global Solutions in a Micro-Scale Model of Superfluidity
Pranava Jayanti,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Mitochondrial Kinase Inhibition Hypothesis for Protection of Insulted Retinal Pigmented Epithelium by the Oligopeptide Risuteganib
Jin Mo Koo,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Kornfield Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Time-Domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data
Ashley Villar,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Electrify? An economy-wide, techno-economic analysis of "electrify everything" as a climate solution and a framework for inventing new technologies to help solve the climate problem.
Cody Finke,
Brimstone,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Orphaned Cyclopropanes
Sidney Wilkerson-Hill,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
- Internal Event
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Two old machines and the attempts to analyze them: Roberval's weighing balance and Archimedes' screw pump
John Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Design principles of the expandible synthetic reaction-diffusion systems in mammalian cells"
Rongrong Du,
Graduate Student,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Effective field theory treatment of the freeze-out mechanism of thermal non-relativistic dark matter pairs
Gramos Qerimi,
Tech Univ Munich (TUM),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Serial Blackness: Curating Black Life in William Still's Underground Railroad (1872)
Derrick R. Spires,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Associate Professor of English and John and Patricia Cochran Scholar of Inclusive Excellence, University of Delware,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Low-energy Plasma–Surface Interactions at Airless Icy Bodies
Robert Grayson,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Giapis Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Stress response silencing - or how basic biology informs drug discovery
Michael (Micha) Rapé,
Professor, HHMI Investigator,
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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8:30pm
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