Institute Calendar
Spring 2018-2019
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
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PhD Thesis Defense
Oxygen Transporter and Generator Devices to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy
Nicholas Scianmarello,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The stable cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry—Bristol Myers Squibb Symposium
Employing an Interest in Chemistry to Positively Impact Patient Lives
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dwarf Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Content
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Atlantic-Pacific salinity asymmetry and the hydrological cycle
Johan Nilsson,
Stockholm University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry—Bristol Myers Squibb Symposium
Shining light on the dark matter of natural products: Structure and function of colibactin
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Attention and Selection Effects
Colin Stewart,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 9th, 2019
8:00am
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2:00pm
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8:30am
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11:00am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Extracellular Matrix Viscoelasticity and its Impact on Cells
Ovijit Chaudhuri,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Li-ion and Li-air batteries: harnessing oxygen redox and understanding interfacial reactivity in high energy batteries
Bryan McCloskey,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Many-body physics with arrays of individual Rydberg atoms
Antoine Browaeys,
CNRS Research Director,
Institut d'Optique, Paris,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 10th, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing via Measurement of Nucleic Acid Quantity and State
Nathan Schoepp,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces
Ben Heidenreich,
UMass Amherst,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Songfa Zhong,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore; 2018-2019 NUS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Interpreting the range of spectral properties from the tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
Nathan Roth,
Space-Science Institute Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Maryland and NASA Goddard,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Boundary Layer Ingestion and Power Balance: Analysis Framework for Highly-Integrated Aircraft Configuration
Alejandra Uranga,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Bioanalytical Tools to Develop Rapid Diagnostics and Study Physiology
Justin Rolando,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Student/Postdoc Seminar Series
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Student/Postdoc Seminar Series
Gil Sharon,
Postdoc, Mazmanian Lab,
Caltech,
Ben Levin,
Postdoc, Arnold Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar
Heat kernel expansion of the Dirac-Laplacian of multifractal Robertson-Walker cosmologies
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Accessing Chiral Amines via Enantioconvergent, Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of N-Hydroxyphthalimide Esters
Dylan Freas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Cubesats and Smallsats
Anne Marinan,
Systems Engineer, Near Earth Asteroid Scout & Mars Cube One; Team Xc Lead Engineer,
JPL,
Travis Imken,
Project Systems Engineer, RainCube,
JPL,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
A Star is Born
Mike Grudic,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR),
Caltech,
- Public Event
Saturday, May 11th, 2019
12:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Choran-Hahn Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Agazaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Palasanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shahkaramy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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Sunday, May 12th, 2019
3:30pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2019
9:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Yorie Nakahira,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Proteomics Profiling and Functional Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Excreted/Secreted Proteins
Wen Chen,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Virgin Orbit – Launching the Small Satellite Revolution
William Pomerantz,
Vice President, Special Projects,
Virgin Orbit,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ivan de Araujo,
Professor,
The Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ice sheets: a cartoon
Christian Schoof,
Professor,
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Towards Resolution of the MiniBooNE Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment
Brooke Russell,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar/Chemical Physics Seminar
What did the metal know, and when did she know it? Ultrafast XUV spectroscopy reveals short-lived states in transition metal complexes and organohalide perovskites
Josh Vura-Weis,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Use of recombinant self-associating proteins for altering cellular fate and behavior
Mark Kozlowski,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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