Institute Calendar
November 2024
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11/1
8:48am
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11/4
5:00pm
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11/5
11:59pm
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Friday, November 1st, 2024
8:30am
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5:00pm
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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
Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes
Alexandre Homrich,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Anyon quantum dimensions from an arbitrary ground state wave function
Shang Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling and Numerical Discretization in Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence
Robert Moser,
W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The (fractional) Dehn twist coefficient and infinite-type surfaces
Hannah Turner,
School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics,
Stockton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Development of Selective C-H Amidation Catalysis Based on Mechanistic Elucidation of Nitrene Transfer Process".
Hoimin Jung,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Isotropic high-frequency radiation and elevated P/S amplitude ratios
Yehuda Ben-Zion,
Director of the Statewide California Earthquake Center and Professor of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Structured Deliberation
Dmitri Gallow,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:50pm
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 3rd, 2024
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 4th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities: Evidence from China during the Warlord Era
Kexin Feng,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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-Elecrochemistry Seminar
"Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies".
Smaranda C. Marinescu,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Prevalence of Distant Giant Companions to Inner Small Planets / Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope and other experiments
Judah Van Zandt,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Tim Eifler,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Department of Physics,
The University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconceptualizing Mentoring
Joyce Yen,
Director of University of Washington ADVANCE,
Center for Institutional Change,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Waves and Resonances: Accelerated Green Functions, High-Frequency Asymptotics and Optimization for Simulation and Design
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS
Josh Bendavid,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Classifying vector bundles on complex projective spaces
Morgan Opie,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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QUANTUM MATTER SEMINAR
Dynamic Manipulation of Charge Density Waves
Vidya Madhaven,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Bohr-Sommerfeld surgeries on Lagrangian submanifolds
Soham Chanda,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Tuesday, November 5th, 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 - Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Cracking Old Mysteries of Cellular Replication
Christine Jacobs-Wagner,
Professor,
Biology/Microbiology and Immunology,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Some problems in the flow of Liquid Crystals
Yannick Sire,
Professor, Director of Graduate studies,
Department of Mathematics,
Johns-Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Burke Institute Lecture Series
Online and In-Person Event
Introduction to turbulence for physicists
Gregory Falkovich,
Weizmann Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold
Michael Newman,
Google,
Kevin Satzinger,
Google,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Using Math to Invent Solutions to Large-Scale Human Problems, Just in Time to Survive AI
Po-Shen Loh,
Mathematical Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Microwave Remote Sensing of Living Systems and Water Resources on the 3rd Planet from the Sun
Paul Siquiera,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Massachusetts,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Market Power and Insurance Coverage
Daniel Gottlieb,
Arkley Chair in Risk Management and Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
USC,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
10:30am
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11:45am
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Informal Seminar - Daniel Rokhsar
"The past has left its traces on the world": deeply conserved synteny and the evolution of animals
Dan Rokhsar,
Professor,
Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California Berkeley,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum gravity corrections to absorption and emission of 4d near-extremal black holes in supergravity and Einstein gravity
Anna Biggs,
Princeton University,
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 Re-Cap and Discussion of Election Day by Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project Co-Directors R. Michael Alvarez and Charles Stewart, III
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brown Bag Seminar
Enhancement of Phase Picking Models Using Deep Learning by Addressing the Label Imbalance Problem
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
A hierarchy of cli Polish groups and non-reducibility results
Shaun Allison,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Uncommon linear systems of two equations
Dingding Dong,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Decoding Neural Networks: A New Frontier in Astrophysical Discovery
Brice Menard,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate, energy, and economic development: Exploratory research
Ken Caldeira,
Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
The strong law of large numbers as an axiom
Tobias Fritz,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Innsbruck,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent
John F. Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inertial Updating with General Information
Gerelt Tserenjigmid,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Principles of Computation by Protein Dimerization Networks"
Jacob Parres-Gold,
Graduate Student,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Incentivizing Information Acquisition
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Identifying the topological order of quantized half-filled Landau levels through their daughter states
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy
Brandon Rayhaun,
Stony Brook University,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Topological Laplace transform and decomposition of nc-Hodge structures
Shaowu Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Equivariant formal group laws and Quillen theorem
Yunze Lu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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