Institute Calendar
Week of April 14, 2024
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4/14
12:00pm
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 15th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
From weathering fronts to streams: records of CO2 and O2 consumption across the critical zone
Susan Brantley,
Professor of Geosciences and Evan Pugh University Professor Leiden University,
Department of Geosciences,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Flavorful New Physics and Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism
Sam Homiller,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
9:00am
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4/17
12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Forming the Trappist-1 system in two steps during the recession of the disc inner edge
Gabriele Pichierri,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Thomas Gray as reader and writer of the natural world
Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Best Complete Approximations of Preference Relations
Efe Ok,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
10:00am
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3:00pm
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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
Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions
Barbara Soda,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Non-Backtracking spectral methods for sparse matrices and tensors
Yizhe Zhu,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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4/19
5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-reciprocity in quantum materials
Philip Moll,
Max-Planck Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Groups without unitary representations, submeasures, and the escape property
Sławomir Solecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence
Yu Deng,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Uniqueness problems for generalized quadrature domains with connections to Hele-Shaw flow and the Faber transform
Andrew Graven,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope
Chad Bender,
Associate Astronomer,
Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Stirring Tropics
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
What limits the critical temperature for superconductivity in quantum materials?
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Dearomative Alkaloid Synthesis
Joel M. Smith,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Florida State University,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Scott Gehlbach,
Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor,
Department of Political Science, Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Micro/nanoscale reactive transport toward decarbonization
Wen Song,
Assistant Professor,
Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment,
University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Non-invasive actuation of chemical reactions through mechanochemistry and gas vesicle proteins"
Yuxing Yao,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Which Lenders Offered Mortgage Loans to Blacks, Immigrants, and Native White During the Great Depression?
Price Fishback,
Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics,
University of Arizona,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Zhiyang Jin
Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes
Zhiyang Jin,
Ph.D. Candidate, Shapiro Lab,
Medical Engineering Department,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Algebra and geometry of camera resectioning
Jessie Loucks-Tavitas,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
From geometric realizations of affine Hecke algebras to character formulas
Vasily Krylov,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Single-Cell Imaging & Control of Microbial Functions via Protein Nanowires
Nikhil Malvankar,
Yale University, Protein Nanowire Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series-Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.
Pursuit of Precision Health: The digital twin opportunity
Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.,
Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health Engineering, Robert A Welch Professor Inaugural Dean School of Engineering Medicine,
Texas A&M University / Houston Methodist Research Institute,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The period-index conjecture for abelian threefolds
Alexander Perry,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum materials on the mesoscale
Philip Moll,
Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, April 19th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Bar-Ilan University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Majorana zero modes in germanium-based devices
Katharina Laubscher,
University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:15pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stellar Rotation and Polytropic Gas Effects on the Stellar Wind
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Generating Near-Infrared Chiral Light, and other Hot Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Gael Ung,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Connecticut,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Triple Grid Diagrams
Sarah Blackwell,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Anti-screening and nonequilibrium layer electric phases in graphene multilayers
Mark Rudner,
University of Washington,
5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Richard N. Merkin Public Lecture
Puzzles to Unravel the Universe
Cumrun Vafa,
Harvard University,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
9:00am
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