Institute Calendar
October 2024
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Non-trivial topology in the centrosymmetric square net Eu-based compounds
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When to Decide: Timing of Choice in Parallel Search
Can Urgun,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, October 10th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Interleaved Physics-Based Deep-Learning Framework as a New Cycle Jumping Approach for Microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Growth Simulations
Ashley Spear,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Utah,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Maxim Zhelyabovskiy,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Agapie Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geoclub Kickoff: Faculty Spotlights
Woodward Fischer,
Professor of Geobiology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Michael P. Lamb,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory for newforms at Eisenstein primes
Mulun Yin,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
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Friday, October 11th, 2024
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
Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory
Tomasz Taylor,
Northeastern University and University of Warsaw,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exploring scientific frontiers in quantum error correction with reconfigurable atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm
2:00pm
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10/12
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Symposium
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Plugged In: Art and Electric Light
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in a collisional multi-fluid plasma
Vincent Wheatley,
Co-Director of the Centre for Hypersonics,
University of Queensland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Finiteness of Totally Geodesic Hypersurfaces in Negative Curvature
Ben Lowe,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Starquakes a thousand light years away
James Fuller,
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 12th, 2024
10:00am
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10/15
1:00pm
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Sunday, October 13th, 2024
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 14th, 2024
8:30am
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10:00am
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8:48am
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Ongoing
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9:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk with Cubist
Q&A Panel with Point72/Cubist Systematic Strategies
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The destructive formation of moons and rings
Jacob Kegerreis,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics
Floria Piegsa,
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics,
University of Bern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
A multimodal approach to uncovering magnetic symmetries: the case of EuIn2As2
Veronika Sunko,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Frank Schroeder
TBD
Frank Schroeder,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Gullible networks and the mathematics of adversarial attacks
Tim Roith,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computational Imaging Group,
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation with Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse OIiver, Chief Election Official of the State of New Mexico
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Pseudorandom unitaries, t-designs, and the incompressibility of random circuits
Tony Metger,
Graduate Student,
ETH Zurich,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Mapping Decoherence Pathways in Molecules
Ignacio Franco,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Magnetic field and tide of star, planet and moon
Xing Wei,
Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy,
Beijing Normal University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Uniqueness and continuous dependence of geometric flows and applications
Richard Bamler,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Optimal Mechanisms for Demand Response: An Indifference Set Approach
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Panel
Online Event
Impact of Loper Bright on the Regulation of Biotechnology
11:00am
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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
2d theory for asymptotic dynamics of 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity
Wei Bu,
Northeastern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable Brooks's Theorem for Directed Graphs
Cecelia Higgins,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Triggering Intensity Changes over Time and Space in Southern California
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Elisabeth Krause,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ice, Water & Climate: Radar Remote Sensing of Meltwater Dynamics on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Riley Culberg,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A categorical approach to Lyapunov stability
Joseph Moeller,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering Department, AMBER Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bioinspired surfaces – from micropatterning and machine learning to sustainable robotics
Eduard Arzt,
Visiting Distinguished Faculty,
Material Science and Engineering,
UC San Diego, Senior Professor for New Materials at Saarland University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Happens When Voters Can Delegate Their Votes? Evidence from Liquid Democracy Online
Andrew Hall,
Davies Family Professor, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:17am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A brief history of development of elastocaloric cooling
Ichiro Takeuchi,
Interim Chair and Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Antibody 007: A best-in-class anti-HIV antibody that utilizes avidity"
Andrew DeLaitsch,
Graduate Student,
Bjorkman Group,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
No More Snowball, Sorry Joe! New Data and New Paradigm
Ross Mitchell,
Professor,
Institute of Geology & Geophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS),
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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