Institute Calendar
December 2024
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12/15
4:00pm
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12/6
11:59pm
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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
8:30am
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12/23
5:30pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Community Engagement in Rural Alaska: Developing capacity for planning and adapting to riverbank erosion and its consequences in the Yukon River Basin
John S. Magyar,
Research Scientist,
Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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DOW LECTURE IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
The Bionic Leaf: Surpassing the C- and N-Fixation Processes of Nature
Daniel G. Nocera,
Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution: The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters / Constraining Black Hole Growth History With Population Spin Measurements
Steffani Grondin,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
Asia Piotrowska-Karpov,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter
Nicholas Rodd,
LBNL,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
8:00am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Hillel Adesnik
Optically probing the neural codes of perception
Hillel Adesnik,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology/ Neuroscience,
University of California - Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Advocating for the Future of Space Exploration
Jack Kiraly,
Director of Government Relations,
The Planetary Society,
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
9:00am
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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
Tidal Effects of Compact Objects From Theory to Observations
Zihan Zhou,
Princeton University,
11:30am
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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
Construction and obstruction results in Baire measurable combinatorics
Clark Lyons,
Eötvös Loránd University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Old and new results on active scalars
Javier Gomez-Serrano,
Department of Mathematics,
Brown University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Turning particles into probes in plasma by machine learning
Wentao Yu,
senior graduate student,
Physics,
Emory University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Nature of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs
Jacob Bean,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis
Yang Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Consistency and Heterogeneity in Consideration and Choice
Erkut Ozbay,
Professor of Economics,
University of Maryland,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, December 5th, 2024
8:00am
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2:30pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Geometry of Funicular Gridshells, Discrete Airy Stress Functions and States of Self-stress
Bill Baker,
Consulting Structural Engineering Partner,
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Acoustic Tumor Paint for Brain Tumor Diagnosis, Surgery Guidance, and Recurrence Monitoring with Ultrasound"
George Daghlian,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Explaining Exotic Heavy Hadrons from QCD
Roberto Bruschini,
Ohio State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Exotic hidden-heavy hadrons
Roberto Bruschini,
The Ohio State University,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Decomposition and framing of F-bundles and applications to quantum cohomology
Thorgal Hinault,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seismo Lab Seminar
Seismic evidence for melt-rich Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary beneath young slab at Cascadia
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Mirror symmetry for theta divisors in principally polarized abelian varieties
Heather Lee, PhD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ting Zhang,
Professor,
College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering,
China Agricultural University,
Dongfeng Li,
Assistant Professor,
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Peking University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Large Deviation Principle for the Directed Landscape
Sayan Das,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED - Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Faraday's Challenge: Batteries and Wires
Peter Littlewood,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Convergence of Pfaffian Point Processes to the Airy Line Ensemble
Zhengye Zhou,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Community Detection with the Bethe-Hessian
Yizhe Zhu,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, December 6th, 2024
9:00am
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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
Randomness in conformal field theories
Moshe Rozali,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-reciprocal phase transitions
Peter Littlewood,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The "visible" and "invisible": stars as tracers for the Milky Way formation
Xiaowei Ou,
Graduate Student,
Dept. of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lighting the fuse to enable metamaterials for passive, adaptive flow control
Andres Goza,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Isoperimetric Problem in the Cube and Torus
Federico Glaudo,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Earthquakes and slow slip events controlled by fault zone fluid transport
So Ozawa,
Assistant Professor (Research Associate),
Earthquake Research Institute,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dividing al-ʿUlūm: Mathematics as a 'Rational Science' in the Post-Classical Islamicate World
Julia Tomasson,
PhD Candidate,
Department of History,
Columbia University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 7th, 2024
8:00am
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12/10
11:59pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 8th, 2024
6:00pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, December 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The chemical compositions of massive quiescent galaxies across cosmic time with JWST / The first sample of orbital properties for stars stripped in binaries: towards population statistics
Aliza Beverage,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,