Institute Calendar
October 2024
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Relative Trace Formula and Uniform Non-vanishing of Hilbert Modular $L$-values
Liyang Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Chemical design of quantum systems
Danna Freedman,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Endogenous Financial Networks and Systemic Risk: A Demand System Approach
Romain Ranciere,
Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife; Professor of Finance & Business Economics, USC Marshall; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Friday, October 18th, 2024
8:00am
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10/20
5:00pm
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8:00am
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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
Hierarchy from duality
Kristan Jensen,
University of Victoria,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Dialogues across Difference: Kick-Off Event
Who is this "we?" Dialogue and community action in polarized times
Lara Schwartz,
Founding Director of the Project on Civic Dialogue,
School of Public Affairs,
American University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Stability and loop models from decohering non-Abelian topological order
Pablo Sala,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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KNI-Wheatley Scholar Lecture: Protein Complexes as the Nanomachines of the Human Body
Rebecca Voorhees,
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Measuring Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions with High Spatial Resolution
Thomas Juliano,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Towards isomorphisms among Floer homologies
Fan Ye,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Harvesting Insights from Advanced Microscope Acquisitions: Techniques and Applications
Mingshu Liang,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Full-waveform seismic tomography using ambient noise and earthquakes: with application to imaging the Alaskan lithosphere
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 19th, 2024
10:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Immobilization of Heavy Metals from Solution by Novel Biogenic Manganese Oxides
Hannah Way,
Grad Student,
Geobiology,
Caltech,
Jared Leadbetter,
Professor of Environmental Microbiology,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision
Aaron Tohuvavohu,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Continental Emergence as a Driver of Stabilization
Jesse Reimink,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Astrometric Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter
Sarunas Verner,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Integral counts of pseudo-holomorphic curves and applications
Shaoyun Bai,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Proving Quantum Thermalization of Translation-Invariant Systems at High Temperature.
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
The exponential type conjecture for quantum connections
Zihong Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Lacramioara Bintu
Distilling the rules of transcriptional activators and repressors using high-throughput and single-cell methods
Lacramiora Bintu,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
From Entropy to Artistry: on Thermodynamics and Generative AI
Stephan Mandt,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Statistics,
University of California, Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Polluting White Dwarfs with Oort Cloud Comets
Dang Pham,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Minimalism as a Guiding Concept for the Reinvention of Amide Synthesis
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
An Organizational Theory of State Capacity
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of the Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations,
Eccles School of Business,
The University of Utah,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
3d gravity as a random ensemble
Liza Rozenberg,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Hyperhyperfiniteness and complexity
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Evaluation of the SFBA velocity model with simulations of small earthquakes and its challenges in modeling
Camilo I. Pinilla-Ramos,
Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate,
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Operator Origin of Anomalous dimensions in de Sitter Space
Yiwen Huang,
UC San Diego,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Stable regime singularity for the Muskat problem
Andrej Zlatos,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Ordered Ramsey numbers of powers of paths
Oliver Janzer,
Trinity College,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
The Turán Density of 4-Uniform Tight Cycles
Maya Sankar,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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OCS - Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectures
Dr. Lauren Holder,
Principal Scientist II,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Global Discovery Chemistry,
Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Storm-Resolving Models: Not just more of the same
David Randall,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An entropic view of machine learning
Akhil Premkumar,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Materials Research to Enable Scalable Decarbonization Technologies
Yet-Ming Chiang,
Kyocera Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Multidimensional Screening with Rich Consumer Data
Mira Frick,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
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
A data-driven approach to modeling and control of wound state progression and healing outcomes
Marcella Gomez,
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Associate Dean for DEI in Baskin Engineering,
Applied Mathematics,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
$p$-adic monodromy and mod $p$ unlikely intersections
Ruofan Jiang,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
HOMFLYPT homology and categorical Heisenberg action
Alexei Oblomkov,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Massachusetts,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A river in flux: The sediment deficit in the Fraser Delta
Jeremy Venditti,
Director of Environmental Science & Professor,
School of Environmental Science & Geography,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Amy Herr
Cellular-to-molecular heterogeneity: Electrophoretic cytometry for targeted proteomics
Amy Herr, PhD,
Chancellor's Professor,
UC Berkeley and VP at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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