Institute Calendar
Week of November 17, 2024
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Sunday, November 17th, 2024
3:00pm
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Monday, November 18th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk with MIT
Another AI is Possible
Catherine D'Ignazio,
Director of the MIT Data + Feminism Lab,
Department of Urban Studies and Planning,
MIT,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
See event detail for location
Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail: A Study on Commitment Failure
Polina Detkova,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Isotopic fingerprints of the mechanisms of lignin destruction in the environment
John Eiler,
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry; Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Another AI is Possible
Catherine D'Ignazio,
Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Finite-Dimensional Robust Controllers for Distributed Parameter Systems
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Salmon vs the landslide: The rockslide that blocked the Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada
Jeremy Venditti,
Director of Environmental Science & Professor,
School of Environmental Science & Geography,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Algorithmic Tools for Redistricting: Fairness via Analytics
David B. Shmoys,
Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management & Leadership Studies,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Department of Computer Science,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalous Continuous Translations
Nathan Seiberg,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Exploring non-left-orderability in 3-manifold groups
Zipei Nie,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Where the current flows in a Chern insulator
Roderich Moessner,
Professor,
Condensed Matter,
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
L-space satellite operators and knot Floer homology
Daren Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
9:30am
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
On reconstructing unknown state and parameters in hydrodynamic systems from time-series data
Vincent Martinez,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
The City University of New York - Hunter College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Moore Scholar Seminar - Ron Diskin
The intricate cell entry mechanisms of arenaviruses
Ron Diskin,
Professor,
Department of Chemical and Structural Biology,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Dieudonné theory via cohomology of classifying stacks
Shubhodip Mondal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A Novel Approach to Revealing the Early Stellar Spins of >1Gyr-Old Sun-like Stars through Secular Dynamics
Thea Faridani,
Ph. D Candidate,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel
John Asker,
Armen Alchian Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
8:00am
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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
Interacting Dark Radiation and Cosmological Tensions
Hengameh Bagherian,
Harvard 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
What are the Prospects for Ranked Choice Voting?
Christian Grose,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
USC,
Andrew Sinclair,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Claremont McKenna College,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable domatic partitions
Edward Hou,
Department of Mathematics,
Calteh,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Fundamental Physics and Cosmology from Stellar Mass Binary Black Holes
Will Farr,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Desert Chrome- Natural and Anthropogenic Cr in Groundwater near Hinkley, CA. Sequestration and re-oxidation of Cr in experimental microcosms.
Larry Miller,
USGS (retired),
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A clock is just a way to tell the time: gravitational algebras in cosmological spacetimes
Chang-Han Chen,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Accelerated Discovery of the Processing Genome for Nickel Superalloys
Andrea M. Hodge,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Peter B. Dervan Lecture
Fe-mediated N₂ fixation and lessons for Mo: Bridging catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis.
Jonas C. Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Screening Two Types
Nima Haghpanah,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Pennsylvania State University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Integrating Multi-scale Modeling and Control Theory in Biomedical Therapeutic Systems
Michaëlle N. Mayalu,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
TBA
Matt Ratanapanichkich,
Graduate Student,
Ismagilov Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Getting Things Done Part 2 - A system for highly productive people – Implementation
Online Event
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Mergers and Mismatches in the Labor Market for Creativity
Ke Shi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Endomorphisms of varieties
Burt Totaro,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Position-Specific Isotope Analysis for Life Detection and Beyond: Applications in astrobiology, environmental sciences and chemical forensics
Cornelia Rasmussen,
Research Associate,
Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The evaporation of charged black hotels
Luca Iliesiu,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Economic History Talk
Topic to be announced
Qiyi Zhao,
PhD Student,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Topic to be announced
Travis McKenna,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum phase diagram and non-abelian Moore-Read state in double twisted bilayer graphene
Sen Niu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Cal State Northridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the Hunt for Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events
Tatsuya Akiba,
Graduate Student,
Dept. of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences/JILA,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Thomas Bernhardt
Beyond the wall: the role of membranes in bacterial cell shape and integrity.
Thomas Bernhardt,
Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Identifying coherent structures and controlling turbulent flows through deep learning
Ricardo Vinuesa,
Associate Professor,
Department of Engineering Mechanics,
KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Framed real monopole Floer homology
Jiakai Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Elucidating the Mechanism of Photoreduction of Sm(III) by Hantzsch Ester for Catalytic Applications."
Luke Zhou,
Undergraduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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