Institute Calendar - www.caltech.edu

Day

Week

Month

Term

February 2024

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

A New Way to Image Atoms

David Muller, Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CBIPP Tech Talk

Chen 100

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151

"Deep profiling of the single-cell proteome: potential for next-generation spatial-omics"

Wan Rion Marion (Marion) Pang, Roukes & Chou Groups,

2:30pm – 3:45pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

KLRW algebra from Floer theory

Peng Zhou, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

3:45pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

q-Series invariants of plumbed manifolds

Josef Svoboda, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

EE Devices Seminar- Eli Levenson-Falk, USC

Moore B270

On-demand loss in a superconducting quantum circuit

Eli Levenson-Falk, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy and of Electrical & Computer Engineering, USC,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

On the K-theory of Z/p^n

Achim Krause, Mathematisches Institut, Universitat Muenster,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?

Axel Brandenburg, Nordita & KITP,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

From Atoms to Evolution: Dissecting Enzymes in High-Throughput

Margaux Pinney, Ph.D., Sandler Faculty Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Winter Midterms Decompression

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

Friday, February 2nd, 2024

12:00am – 2/23 11:59pm

OTTCP Summer Internship in Entrepreneurship Applications

Building 15, Room 105

8:00am – 2/8 11:59pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs

Andreas Karch, UT Austin,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Building quantum networks: from solid-state defects and Rydberg atoms in cavities to a new scientific frontier with hybrid quantum systems

Aziza Suleymanzade, Harvard,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Helping People Through RNA Structure

Dr. Lauren D. Hagler, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University and Harvard School of Medicine,

Internal Event

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Revealing Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation with Small-Scale Structure

Ethan Nadler, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, CTAC, Carnegie Observatories / USC,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Avenues in mechanics of materials with full field X-ray measurements

Angkur Shaikeea, Assistant Professor, University Cambridge,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Heegaard Floer symplectic cohomology and generalized Viterbo's isomorphism

Roman Krutowski, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Ignoranic-Organometallics Seminare

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Developing New Spectroscopic Observables to Probe Spin Relaxation Mechanisms

Nathanael Kazmierczak, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Earthquake forecasting in a data-rich era

Kelian Dascher-Cousineau, Postdoctoral scholar, Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley,

7:00pm – 9:00pm

▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Sunday, February 4th, 2024

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Chamber Music Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event

Monday, February 5th, 2024

12:00pm – 1:00pm

BBE- Moore Scholar Seminar - Boris Shraiman | Monday, February 5, 2024 at 12 pm

Chen 100

12:00pm – 1:00pm

RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109

The Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility (EBEF)

Nate Glasser, Director, Resnick Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Special LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Experimental prototype of a phase-insensitive quantum filter for sensitivity enhancement of gravitational-wave detectors.

Artemy Dmitriev,

Internal Event

2:30pm – 3:30pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy

Sandip Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Structures and dynamic processes in Earth's mantle from seismic anisotropy

Jonathan Wolf, Graduate student, Department of Earth Planetary Sciences, Yale University,

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CTLO Faculty Learning Communities (Alternatives to High-Stake Exams)

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Adiabatic quantum computations with three-dimensional Rydberg atom graphs

Minhyuk Kim, Korea University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

The Fuzz: Frederick Wiseman's Law and Order and the Shadow of Police Radio

Jason Hill, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware,

Public Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Dine & Dialogue

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365

Validating Cellular Life and Extant Biological Process from Martian Analog Brines and Evaporites

Scott Perl, Research Scientist, Geobiology & Astrobiology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Gerry Rubin

Illustrating the power of connectomics: circuit mechanisms that gate the salience of visual cues in Drosophila

Dr. Gerry Rubin, Senior Group Leader, HHMI Investigator, Janelia Research Campus,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Chen Social

Chen Lobby

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Caltech Playreaders 73rd season: "The Bargain"

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates

Public Event

Wednesday, February 7th, 2024

All Day

Wear the Earth with ASTER Scarves

Caltech Store

Internal Event

9:30am – 11:45am

Merkin Institute/OTTCP Entrepreneurship Workshop

Broad 100

9:45am – 11:30am

Caltech Library Workshop – Shell on an HPC Cluster

Online Event

10:45am – 11:45am

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

The action of geometric entropy in topologically massive gravity

Molly Kaplan, UC Santa Barbara,

11:00am – 1:00pm

Caltech Connect suicide prevention training for faculty

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Stretched horizon, replica trick, and off-shell winding condensate, and all that

Indranil Halder, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254

Exploring Fine-Scale Crustal Structure with Fiber Optic Seismology

James Atterholt, Seismo Lab, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:30pm

How Learning Works-Winter Workshop Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187

The Euler equations with a free interface

Igor Kukavica, Department of Mathematics, USC,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Formed Too Fast? Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn

Caitlin Casey, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Ecology and Biosphere Engineering at the Resnick Sustainability Center

Nate Glasser, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Laser X-Photon Lithography for Nano-Additive Manufacturing

Mangirdas Malinauskas, Professor, Group leader of Laser NanoPhotonics, Vilniaus University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Michael Ehlers presents 2024 David Dreier Lecture: Primordial Origins of RNA Therapy

Chen 100

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Watson Lecture - Illuminating the Dynamic Night Sky: Discoveries from the Zwicky Transient Facility

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, February 8th, 2024

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Contraction Theory for Optimization, Control, and Neural Networks

Francesco Bullo, Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CBIPP Tech Talk

Chen 100

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Technology Tools)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Survival Kit for Managing Anxiety and Stress - Thursday, Feb 8th

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Lunar New Year Talk: "Working Women in Ancient China"

Chen 130

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

How Much Income Inequality is Fair? A Surprising Answer to a 200-year-old Question.

Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Karen Christman

Annenberg 105

Biomaterials for Treating the Heart

Karen Christman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Pierre Galletti Endowed Chair for Bioengineering cInnovation, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Welfare, Jaobs School of Engineering, University of San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387

Uniform irreducibility of Galois action on the p-primary part of Abelian 3-folds of Picard type

Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Magnetic power of neutron stars

Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Mechanism and function of accurate stress response silencing

Diane Haakonsen, Ph.D., Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

Friday, February 9th, 2024

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

The EFT of Large Spin Mesons

Gabriel Cuomo, Princeton & NYU,

11:00am – 12:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Magnetic Noise Injection Scripts and Preliminary Results for The Virgo Detector

Catalina Miritescu,

Internal Event

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Green Labs February 2024 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunar New Year Event

Red Door Cafe

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Activation and Incorporation of Rare Sugars into Bacterial Surfaces

Tania Lupoli, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, New York University,

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