Institute Calendar
Week of April 21, 2024
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing pCO2 from carbon isotope fractionation in marine algae
Pratigya Polissar,
Associate Professor,
Ocean Sciences Department,
University of California Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Stochastic particle systems for global optimization: a journey from metaheuristics to PDEs
Lorenzo Pareschi,
Professor, Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
School of Mathematics,
Heriot-Watt University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
Huangyu Xiao,
Fermilab & KICP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The Classical Limit of Quantum Max-Cut
Vir Bulchandani,
Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Augmented Algorithms for MDPs
Adam Wierman,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Exploring the Diversity of Earth-sized Planets in Compact Multi-planet Systems" & "Mapping Callisto's surface properties: ALMA & JWST Perspectives"
Mike McKeon,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Maria Camarca,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing
Yao Luo,
Associate Professor of Economics,
University of Toronto,
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Rindler Fluids from Gravitational Shockwaves
Jerry Zhang,
Caltech,
11:30am
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization
Siting Liu,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Equivalence relations classifiable by Polish abelian groups
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
The Enduring Enigma of the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake: Are Railroads the Rosetta Stone?
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Renaissance of Compact Objects in Binary Systems
Kevin Burdge,
Pappalardo Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using seafloor cables to observe surface waves in high resolution: from the sea ice zone to the surf zone
Madison Smith,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
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Number Theory Seminar
Line bundles on abelian schemes and p-adic heights
Adebisi Agboola,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Optimal Bailouts in Diversified Financial Networks
Rakesh Vohra,
George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor,
Department of Economics and the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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Thursday, April 25th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Vortex Dynamics in Inertial Fusion and Supernovae
Michael Wadas,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Synthetic miRNA circuits for the regulation of gene expression, including in gene therapy applications"
Michael Flynn,
PhD Student,
Elowitz Group,
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank
Vellore Arthi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Irvine,
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
DNA replication: challenges and solutions
David Cortez,
Professor of Biochemistry, Richard N. Armstrong Ph.D. Chair for Innovation in Biochemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Vanderbilt School of Medicine,
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Frontiers in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Dynamic Control of Active and Flowing Matter
Sho Takatori,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Hong Chen
Neurosonics: A new frontier for noninvasive brain interventions with ultrasound
Professor Hong Chen,
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physics
Adam Kaufman,
JILA/NIST,
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Friday, April 26th, 2024
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar
Online Event
High-density arrays of optically-pumped magnetometers for MEG
Svenja Knappe,
Associate Research Professor,
Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
New dualities between string theories and random ensembles
Victor Rodriguez,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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LIGO Seminar
Modeling and Inference of Environmental Effects in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Shubham Kejriwal,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 26, 2024
Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Hanxun Jin,
EAS,
Dr. Alessandro Liberatore,
JPL,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Price & Choose
Matias Nunez,
CNRS researcher and Professor,
Ecole Polytechnique,
12:00pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: William J. Dally
Deep Learning for Chip Design
William J. Dally,
Chief Scientist & SVP of Research at NVIDIA Corporation; Adjunct Professor of EE and CS at Stanford University,
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Resonant shattering flares as probes of neutron star structure and nuclear symmetry
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypersonic boundary-layer transition over slender conical geometries
Stuart Laurence,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Maryland,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Biological Quantum Sensing with an Fe2S2 Metalloprotein
Christian Totoiu,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Saturday, April 27th, 2024
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