Institute Calendar
December 2019
Ongoing
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12/6
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Monday, December 2nd, 2019
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evidence from oxygen-sensitive proxies for late-Pleistocene variability in ventilation of the deep ocean, with implications for atmospheric CO2
Robert F. Anderson,
Ewing Lamont Research Professor,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University Earth Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Reaction Mechanisms and Kinetics of Electrocatalysis from Quantum Mechanics: Applications to CO2 Reduction, Oxygen Evolution, Hydrogen Evolution, and Oxygen Reduction
William A. Goddard III,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics; Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC),
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
8:00am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Computational X-ray Spectroscopy: Matching Peaks and Missing Features
John Vinson,
Physicist, NIST,
Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Group,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Towards Multipurpose Biophysics-Based Mathematical Models of Cortical Circuits"
Gaute Einevoll,
Professor,
University of Oslo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inelastic dark matter revives the dark photon explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly
Gopolang Mohlabeng,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Kernel Estimation for Dyadic Data
James Powell,
George Break and Helen Schnacke Break Distinguished Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
The Classical Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires,
American Author and Associate Professor of English at Cornell University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
TBA
Nihar Shah,
Assistant Professor,
Machine Learning and Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
"RNA Structure-Function Relationships Under In Vivo and In Vivo-Like Conditions: Impacts on RNA Catalysis, Folding, and Transcriptome-Wide Response to Stress"
Philip Bevilacqua,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding the first obligate manganese oxidizing bacteria
Hank Yu,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Spiritual Mobilization: Re-selling market fundamentalism to America's clergy during the New Deal
Erik M. Conway,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Who Gets Placed Where and Why? An Empirical Framework for Foster Care Placement
Alejandro Robinson-Cortés,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, December 5th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Linking chromatin biochemistry to cell identity: decoding cell-fate decision making using next-generation epigenomic technologies
Xun Wang,
Graduate Student,
CCE,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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CANCELED! - Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Engineered Protein Switches for Studying Dynamic Cellular Processes
Dustin Maly,
Professor and Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Distinguished Scholar in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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POSTPONED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been postponed to Thursday, January 9, 2020.
Vadim V. Martynov,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, December 6th, 2019
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The TTbar and JTbar deformations as topological gravity and gauge theory
Edward Mazenc,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fusion rules from entanglement
Kohtaro Kato,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Observations of Ground Deformation along the 2019 Ridgecrest Ruptures: Implications for Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis
Kate Scharer,
Dr.,
United States Geological Survey,
12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Solid-Liquid Impact Phenomena
Rouslan Krechetnikov,
Associate Professor,
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,
University of Alberta,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Catalytic Ammonia Oxidation to Dinitrogen with an Iron Complex
Michael Zott,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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12/13
11:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
PDE aspects of incompressible fluid flows and simpler model equations
6:30pm
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10:30pm
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German Film Screening: Three Penny Opera
Film screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
Saturday, December 7th, 2019
8:00am
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12/10
5:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 9th, 2019
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals
Ryan Ng,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications
Xiaodi Wu,
Assistant Professor,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
An optomechanical architecture for dark matter detection
Dan Carney,
University of Maryland & FNAL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Towards Control of Electronic Excited States in 3d Metal Complexes
Kelly J. Gaffney,
Chemical Sciences Division Director, Photon Science Associate Professor,
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Special ACM/CMS Seminar
The Universe in a Computer: How mathematical and numerical methods are essential
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Liuchi Li, Applied Mechanics, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Linking micro-structure to macro-behavior of granular matter: from flowing heterogeneously to morphing adaptively
Liuchi Li,
Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflation as a Cosmological Collider
Yi Wang,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
Brian Knight,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
The Quantum Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
8:00am
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12/13
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Astronomy Colloquium
Science with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph: The Local Group
Rosemary Wyse,
Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Bundled Payments
Liran Einav,
Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - How to Deceive Society: An Insect Masterclass
Joseph Parker,
Assistant Professor Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
8:30am
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11:00am
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Decision weights based on visual salience
Devdeepta Bose,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Psychology and Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Finance Seminar
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions
Jessica A. Wachter,
Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, Professor of Finance,
Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania,
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4:00pm
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Friday, December 13th, 2019
8:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Facilitating miniaturized bioanalytical assays in microfluidic devices
Dmitriy Zhukov,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
Srujan Meesala,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Painter Group,