Institute Calendar
October 2024
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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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
8:30am
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10:00am
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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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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
CO2 Utilisation via Tandem Electrochemcial CO2 Reduction and Ethylene-CO Coupling
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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1:30pm
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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
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
9:00am
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3:00pm
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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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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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12:00pm
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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),
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Topic to be announced
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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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
10:17am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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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,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ross Mitchell,
Professor,
Institute of Geology & Geophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS),
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
Location to be announced
Topic to be announced
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
8:00pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 19th, 2024
10:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 21st, 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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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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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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