Institute Calendar
Week of April 6, 2025
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Sunday, April 6th, 2025
3:00pm
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Monday, April 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Gradient flows for sampling and their deterministic interacting particle approximations
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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9:00am
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11:00am
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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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5:00pm
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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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Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
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9:00am
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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
Quantizing the Area: Geometry from Conditional Probability
Marc Klinger,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Davidson Lecture - Jonathan Kipnis
Anatomy of brain-immune interactions
Jonathan Kipnis,
Professor,
Pathology and Immunology,
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Simplicial complexes, stellar moves, projective amalgamation, and set theory
Sławomir Solecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Two years of Earthquake Insights
Kyle Bradley,
Prinicipal Investigator Nanyang Technical University/Lecturer Asian School of the Environment,
Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore and Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
SPHEREx First Light
Jamie Bock,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech; Senior Research Scientist, JPL,
California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Michael Taylor,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Arizona,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
(Mis-)Understanding Quotas
Maria Kogelnik,
Postdoctoral Associate at the Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Efficient wave-appropriate numerical methods for high-speed compressible flow simulations
Sainadh Chamarthi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Counting Maps to Hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
Shubham Sinha,
Department of Mathematics,
ICTP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A moduli theoretic approach to heights on stacks
Dori Bejleri,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker - Paul Siqueira
Paul Siqueira,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Functional robustness of the soil microbiome to environmental perturbations
Kiseok Lee,
Graduate Student Researcher,
Department of Ecology and Evolution,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Interplay of Vertex and Edge Dynamics for Dense Random Graphs
Frank den Hollander,
Department of Mathematics,
Leiden University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Murmurations from functional equations
Alex Cowan,
Pure Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Photonic Quantum Matter with Cats
Jonathan Simon,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Random cluster models on random graphs
Remco van der Hofstad,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Large deviations for the giant in spatial random graphs
Joost Jorritsma,
Department of Statistics,
Magdalen College, University of Oxford,
Friday, April 11th, 2025
9:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Decoherence near Black Holes: Causality, Fluctuation and Dissipation
Sam Gralla,
University of Arizona,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum circuit and novel quantum state preparation from spacetime duality
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Three-Dimensional Long-Term CCSN Simulations: New Insights and Challenges
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Arthur Klein Lecture in Aerospace
Arthur Klein Lecture in Aerospace
John W. Hutchinson,
Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering Emeritus,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Bordered algebras and the wrapped Fukaya category
Isabella Khan,
Forbes College,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Fluid-driven shear ruptures: theoretical models and their applications to fluid-induced seismicity
Alexis Saez Uribe,
Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate,
Department of Geology,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 12th, 2025
7:00am
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7:00pm
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