Institute Calendar
April 2025
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4/14
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
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NB-CNS Seminar - Chris Harvey
Cortical circuits for spatial navigation
Chris Harvey,
Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Canceled: DIX Planetary Science Seminar
In Situ and Remote Biosignatures From Microbial Mats in Ephemeral Streams of Fryxell Basin, Antarctica
Schuyler Borges,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Astronomy and Planetary Science,
Norther Arizona University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Wavepackets that Probe Electron transfer and Quantum-Like States
Gregory D. Scholes,
William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
Beyond Conflict: Global Trade and Everyday Relations between China and the West, 1780-1860
Carl Kubler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Direct Examination of Preferences for Wealth Integration
Alex Rees-Jones,
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy,
The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Virasoro and triplet vertex algebras at positive rational central charge
Robert McRae,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
10:00am
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4:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Existence and Stability of Euclidean Wormholes with $S^1\times S^2$ Boundaries
Xiaoyi Liu,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
"The Birth of Poetry From the Spirit of the Machine": Automatic Writing in the 1960s
Tobias Wilke,
Assistant Professor of German,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Earthquake cycle model elucidates large earthquake triggering and delay effects along the Southern San Andreas fault by Lake Cahuilla water level change
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
AGN Variability: A Cornucopia or a Phantasmagoria?
Matthew Graham,
Research Professor of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Laboratory constraints on photochemical processing of biomass burning-derived secondary organic aerosol
Maria Zawadowicz,
Brookhaven National Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
What She Had: Women Managing Property and Confronting Financial Ruin in Mid-Qing China
Stephanie Painter,
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations,
Department of History,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CDS Seminar
Nonparametric Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems: Stability, Safety and Policy Improvement
Enrique Mallada,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Candidate Selection by Parties: Crime and Politics in India
Gergely Ujhelyi,
Professor of Economics,
University of Houston,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
10:00am
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4:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Grain Growth in Materials and the Role of Deformation
Peter Voorhees,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
The Anatomy of Honesty: Lying Aversion vs. Deception Aversion
Wooyoung Lim,
Associate Professor and Lee Heng Fellow,
Department of Economics,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Non-archimedean periods for log Calabi-Yau surfaces
Soham Karwa,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantum K Rings of Partial Flags, Coulomb Branches, and the Bethe Ansatz
Irit Huq-Kuruvilla,
Department of Mathematics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Cunjiang Yu
A Soft Approach for Bioelectronics
Professor Cunjiang Yu,
Founder Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering (Joint), Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Joint), Department of Bioengineering (Joint), Beckman Institute for Science and Technology (Part time faculty), Materials Research Laboratory, Holon,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Race & Ethnicity - Mortgage Markets in the 1930s
Price Fishback,
Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics,
University of Arizona,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
9:00am
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4/5
6:00pm
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10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An L-function Approach to 2D CFT
Eric Perlmutter,
IPhT-Saclay, Paris,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing
Alex Smolin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Connecting Compact Object Dynamics with Multi-Messenger Observations in Dense Star Clusters
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The L^2 Alexander torsion for 3-manifolds and sutured manifold theory
Jianru Duan,
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Peking University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Parallel Buckling and 3d Printing (Support Your Neighbors)
GALCIT Colloquium
Lawrence Virgin,
Professor,
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Pd-Catalyzed Cascade Strategy Towards the Total Synthesis of Cassiabudanol A.
Katelyn (Kate) Gallagher,
Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Unraveling the Martian Interior with Seismology Investigating Seismic Anisotropy on Mars
Caroline Beghein,
Professor of Geophysics,
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
University of California Los Angeles,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 6th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, April 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Thirsting for blood then hunting for water: evolution of feeding and egg-laying behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes"
Ben Matthews,
Assistant Professor and Laboratory Head,
Department of Zoology,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Engineering nitrogenase for the bioelectrocatalytic reduction of N2 to ammonia
Stephen Mayo,
Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor,
Caltech,
Douglas Rees,
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Deep source, noise, and glitch separation for the LISA global fit, with applications to LIGO
- Internal Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching: Flipping Math 6b
Catherine Babecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
"MOMOS: A Superconducting MKID High Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph Testbed for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets" and "Learning to Read and Write in Physics and Astronomy"
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Seeing the "Unseen" Planetary Interior with A Single Seismometer
Sheng Wang,
Staff of Professorship for Seismology and Wave Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Gradient flows for sampling and their deterministic interacting particle approximations
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higher Order Flavor Sum Rules
Margarita Gavrilova,
Cornell University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
6:45am
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8:15am
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11:00am
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Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Panel
Online Event
Biotechnologies Beyond Conventional Containment
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Daniel Dombeck
Hippocampal spatial representations in complex environments
Daniel Dombeck,
Professor,
Neurology and Neuroscience,
Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Biomolecular Engineering of Gas Vesicles with Thiol Functionality
Erik Schrunk,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Shapiro Lab),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Roel Tempelaar,
Assistant Professor of Chemistrry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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History Job Candidate Seminar
The Frigid Frontier: Weather Reporting and State Expansion in Early Modern Korea
Wenjiao Cai,
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Georgetown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Disparities in Aid for Natural Disasters
Tatyana Deryugina,
Associate Professor of Finance,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Special Organic Seminar
Choose Your Own Adventures in Metal-Hydride Catalysis
Prof. Vy Dong,
University of California Irvine,
4:45pm
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6:15pm
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