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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
Heather Lewandowski,
Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The "solar abundance" problem: Decades of discrepancy, today's progress and implications for outer solar system origins and habitability
Ngoc Truong,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemistry- and imaging-based methods to explore extracellular biology
- Internal Event
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Σ12 -completeness results in Borel combinatorics via gadget reductions
Alex Kastner,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Comprehensive Assessment of DAS Amplitude and Its Implications for Earthquake Early Warning and Moonquake Detection
Qiushi Zhai,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Geophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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6:30pm
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Center for Evolutionary Science Winter Symposium
Evolution of Organismal Systems
Jasmine Nirody,
Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
University of Chicago,
Matthew Fuxjager,
Graduate Program Co-Director for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Brown University,
Natasha Mhatre,
Assistant Professor & CRC in Invertebrate Neurobiology,
Department of Biology,
Western University,
Michael Dickinson,
Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering,
Department of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams,
Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Synergies and co-benefits of a clean energy transition
Denise Mauzerall,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar
How to reform the permitting process for renewable energy projects
Sanjay Patnaik,
Director, Center on Regulation and Markets (CRM); Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development; Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From folding to scaling: a tour through nonlinear mechanics
Huan Liu,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties
Dragos Oprea,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
CY3 Wall-Crossing using Virtual Classes
Felix Thimm,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Cin-Ty Lee,
Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Muhammad A. Alam
Reliable Sensing with Field-Deployed "Unreliable" Implantable and Wearable Sensors: How Physics, Information Theory, and Fake-News Algorithm Make Robust Sensing Possible
Muhammad A. Alam,
Jai N. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon,
SLAC,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Xian Shi,
Assistant Professor,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Embedded Minimal Tori in the Three Sphere
Xingzhe Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Evaluating Theoretical Models in Earthquake Physics to Reconcile Recent Observations
Boaning Wu,
Postdoctoral Scholar- Research Associate,
Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 17th, 2025
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
9:00am
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9:01am
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Derivative-free Bayesian Inversion using Multiscale Dynamics: Weak convergence and Invariant Distribution
Antonin Della Noce,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Applied Mathematics,
Matherials, INRIA and CERMICS ENPC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Will we ever detect high frequency gravitational waves?
Raffaele Tito d'Agnolo,
Institut de Physique Théorique,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Nanophotonics Seminar - Day 1
Deep Jariwala,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
Vivian Ferry,
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ultrafast Quantum State Generation and Measurement in Nonlinear Nanophotonics
James A. William,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bridging the pressure gap in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Synergies arising from Experimental and Theoretical Kinetics
Alex Wodtke,
Director and Professor of University of Göttingen,
Dynamics and Surfaces,
Max Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Histories of Waste and Want in Earth's Planetary Periphery
Lisa Ruth Rand,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seismo Lab Seminar
4-Dimensional Seismic Interferometry: New Perspectives on Aquifer Monitoring and Beyond
Shujuan Mao,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
The University of Texas Austin,
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Moments and saddles of heavy CFT correlators
Gordon Rogelberg,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Locally checkable labeling problems in the Borel hierarchy
Felix Weilacher,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inclusive Scattering Matrix
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Multi-Scale Circumgalactic Medium
Peng Oh,
Professor,
University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Toward reducing aerosol forcing and climate projection uncertainties
Xu-Cheng He,
Visiting Researcher,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Hidden Order in Amorphous Materials: from gravitational wave detectors to topological materials
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 20th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wildfire Engineering: Integrating Models and Data to Develop Solutions
Hamed Ebrahimian, Ph.D., P.E.,
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Nevada, Reno,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Direct visualization of cellular protein complexes in situ by fluorescence guided cryo-FIB-SEM and cryo-ET
Jue (Phyllis) Wang,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Imaging Regulation of Single mRNAs in Live Neurons
Robert H. Singer,
Harold and Muriel Block Chair, Professor of RNA Biology, Cell Biology, and Neuroscience,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Robert Hazen,
Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences,
George Mason University,
Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Shana Kelley
Continuous Monitoring of Protein Biomarkers using Implantable Sensors
Professor Shana Kelley,
Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Monodromy results for abelian surfaces and K3 surfaces with bad reduction
Tejasi Bhatnager,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Entangling Ultracold Molecules
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Harvard University,
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Friday, February 21st, 2025
8:00am
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10:00am
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