Institute Calendar
May 2024
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Disentanglement as a strong cosmic censor
Vincent Chen,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Paradoxical decompositions and colouring rules
Robert Simon,
Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics and Political Science,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Critical non-uniqueness in a shell model of the Navier-Stokes equations
Stan Palasek,
Department of Mathematics,
IAS/Princeton,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
Connecting Disks to Planetary Architectures and Compositions
Alycia Weinberger,
Staff Scientist,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What is driving the recent large increases in global atmospheric methane?
Youmi Oh,
NOAA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Converting CO2, water, and sunlight into liquid fuels: Towards affordable solar fuels and chemicals
Aisulu Aitbekova,
postdoctoral scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Advancing the logic of polymer synthesis, modification, and degradation
Alex Zhukhovitskiy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nature in Motion: The power of bioinspired design in unraveling locomotion across mediums and scales
Aimy Wissa,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance
Chenzi Xu,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford University Graduate School of Business,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Weight zero compactly supported cohomology of moduli spaces of pointed hyperelliptic curves
Siddarth Kannan,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Uniform Turán density of hypergraphs
Daniel Kráľ,
Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
GW/FJRW correspondence for quasi-homogeneous polynomials
Yefeng Shen,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A Purpose for Disorder: Intrinsically Disordered Regions Promote Protein Refolding and Facilitate Retrieval from Biomolecular Condensates
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways
Kristala L. J. Prather - MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Large deviations of Dyson Brownian motion and multiple Schramm-Loewner Evolution
Evelina Peltola,
Mathematics Center,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies, German Studies, at Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor,
Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages,
Stanford University- School of Humanities,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Simple abelian varieties over finite fields with extreme point counts
Alexander Smith,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean
Vedika Khemani,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Multiple radial SLE(0) and classical Calogero-Sutherland system
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Phase transition for the late points of random walk
Perla Sousi,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: I, Human: Unlocking the Secret of Human Intelligence
Sneha R. Aenugu,
Caltech graduate student,
Social & Decision Neuroscience,
- Public Event
10:30am
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11:30am
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar
Online Event
Multimodal Imaging and Resting-State Global Brain Activity: Controversies, Hypotheses, and Discovery
Thomas T. Liu,
Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI and Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs
Luca Delacretaz,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolutions
Alex Vañó-Viñuales,
Postdoc and Invited Professor,
GRIT, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico,
University of Lisbon,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shock Waves: A Versatile Tool to Investigate Damage and Injury Mechanisms
Sarah A. Bentil,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Iowa State University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Infinitesimal calculations in fundamental group
Nir Gadish,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Role of Cations and Organic Additive Films in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Madeline Hicks,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Liouville quantum gravity and SLE
Jason Miller,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, May 6th, 2024
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
One is the Loneliest Number: Multielectron and Multivalent Chemistries for Next-Generation Batteries
Kimberly A. See,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Measurements and Theory of Mass Independent Isotope Effects And Relation to Archean, Atmosphere and Solar System Origin Using Seven Isotopes
Mark H. Thiemens,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry John Dove Isaacs Endowed Chair in Natural Philosophy for Physical Sciences Founding Dean Division of Physical Sciences,
University of California San Diego,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Towards a Synthetic Nucleus: Separating Transcription and Translation in Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems
Zoila E. Jurado Quiroga,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Sarah King,
Neubaruer Family Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
A Purity Result for Semi-Stable Local Systems
Heng Du,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
10:00am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Machine Learning and Inference Methods for Surrogate Modeling and Inexpensive Characterization of Elastodynamic Systems
Alexander C. Ogren,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Transformations of Alkenes using Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nickel-Hydride Catalysts
Amanda K. Cook,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Oregon,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Planet Formation Under the Microscope
Karin Oberg,
Professor of Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Alice in Fluxland: Down the rabbit hole of surface-atmosphere exchange and reactive organic carbon.
Delphine Farmer,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
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Anshul Adve,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
On the Origin of Biological Homochirality (General Lecture)
Donna G. Blackmond,
The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair,
Scripps Research,