Institute Calendar
October 2024
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planets are not Points: Structure Evolution and Dynamical Evolution are Intertwined
Tiger Lu,
PhD candidate,
Astrophysics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls
Isabel Garcia Garcia,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
A new approach to strong convergence of random matrices
Jorge Garza Vargas,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town
Kyle Meng,
Associate Professor,
Bren School of Environmental Management and the Department of Economics,
UC Santa Barbara,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Carrollian Partition Functions and the Flat Limit of AdS
Richard Myers,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Hyperfiniteness of Borel graphs of slow intermediate growth
Andrew Marks,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Phototropic Growth of Cu2O: Light-Directed Semiconductor Mesostructuring via Photoelectrodeposition
Sean Byrne,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced
Iair Arcavi,
Professor,
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Water Safety - Challenging Current Standards with New Insights into Aggregate-Bound Bacteria and Pathogens
Daniel Angelscu and Joyce Wong,
Fluidion Water Intelligence,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybrid Materials via Vapor Phase Infiltration: Designing Physicochemical Structure to Alter Chemical, Thermophysical, & Photoelectronic Properties
Mark Losego,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Tools in the Toolbox for Green & Sustainable Organic Synthesis
- Internal Event
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Election Technology Providers about the Industry's Preparations and Readiness to Support Election 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Innovation by evolution: bringing new chemistry to life"
Frances Arnold,
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center,
CCE and BBE,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Delta Conjecture and affine Springer fibers
Eugene Gorsky,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Homological combinatorics of Lagrangian coamoebae
Harold Williams,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanisms driving the Rapid Evolution of Cancer Genomes
David Pellman,
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology,
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Professor of Cell Biology (Harvard Medical School), HHMI Investigator,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture
Protonics for Sustainable Energy Technologies
Sossina M. Haile,
Walter P. Murphy Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geoclub Kickoff: Faculty Spotlights
Claire E. Bucholz,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Francois Tissot,
Professor of Geochemistry; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The scaling limit of the colored asymmetric simple exclusion process
Milind Hegde,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng
Seeing the unseen using molecular fingerprints
Ji-Xin Cheng,
Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics,
Boston University Photonics Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
David Schlegel,
LBL,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Inequalities for connectivity events in Bernoulli percolation
Nikita Gladkov,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Properties of first passage percolation above the (hypothetical) critical dimension
Ken Alexander,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, October 4th, 2024
9:00am
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4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory
Adam Ball,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits
Roland Farrell,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Planetary Defense at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Veronika Korneyeva,
Postdoctoral researcher and John S. Foster Jr. Fellow,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
PDE analysis on stable minimal hypersurfaces: curvature estimates and sheeting
Costante Bellettini,
Department of Mathematics,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Dae-Hyeong Kim
Soft Materials and Bioelectronic Devices for Cardiovascular Diseases
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 5th, 2024
2:30pm
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Sunday, October 6th, 2024
2:30pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The role of policy and governance in shaping biotechnology for sustainability: A case study of U.S. regulations governing engineered microbes for environmental release
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Discovery of Manganese-Dependent Monooxygenases
Jonathan Rittle,
The Chevron Professor of Chemistry; Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Browning of the Earth: Rapid Vegetation Change in the Past and its Impacts
Regan Dunn,
Assistant Curator,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Weyl fermion on a finite lattice
Srimoyee Sen,
Iowa State University,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
8:00am
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3:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Probability threshold for group isomorphism
Edward Hou,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Sedimentary Geology of the Skrinkle Haven mbr ( "curvilinear unit"), Jezero crater, Mars
Elizabeth Ives,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture
Two Engineers and a Whiteboard: Reimagining Clean Energy Systems
Pedro Pizarro,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International,
David Welch,
Co-Founder, NosTerra,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Model Uncertainty, Disagreement, and Over-Precision: Theory and Evidence
Ned Augenblick,
Associate Professor,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings near the conformal boundary of AdS3.
Vit Sriprachyakul,
ETH Zurich,
11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Structurable equivalence relations and Lω1ωLω1ω interpretations
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Maria Drout,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
NASA's New Orbital Imaging Spectrometers
David Thompson,
JPL,