Institute Calendar
January 2020
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Monday, January 6th, 2020
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Measurements of Carbon-14 of methane in ice cores and the role of fossil emissions in the global methane budget
Vasilii Petrenko,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Separate Universe Techniques for Nonlinear Gravitational Evolution
Marilena Loverde,
C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Characterization and Application of Lattice-Confined Intermediates for Hydrocarbon Upgrading
David C. Powers,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Texas A&M University,
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting
Location to be announced
12:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Chemical Reactions Out of this World"
Konstantinos P. Giapis,
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling Multiphase Aerosol Thermodynamics – From Phase Separation to Cloud Droplet Activation
Andreas Zuend,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Into the dark world of excitons in atomically thin semiconductors"
Keshav M. Dani,
Associate Professor,
Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology (OIST) Graduate University,
Thursday, January 9th, 2020
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Materials Innovations for Emerging Energy Technologies
Liangbing (Bing) Hu,
Professor,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been postponed to Thursday, April 9, 2020.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Vadim V. Martynov,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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Number Theory Seminar
Moments of half integral weight modular L–functions, bilinear forms and applications
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Instruments for the exploration of the Universe and the brain
Günther Dissertori,
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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Friday, January 10th, 2020
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Special CMX Seminar
Twistronics: manipulating the spectrum of Hamiltonian operators for two-dimensional layered structures through their twist angle
1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Replica wormholes and the black hole information paradox
Edgar Shaghoulian,
Cornell University,
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe
Chiara Mingarelli,
Associate Research Scientist,
Center for Computational Astrophysics,
Flatiron Institute,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Theoretical analysis of bio-inspired stealth flight
Peter Baddoo,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College London,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Study in Bubbles: The Behavior of Electrochemically Generated Gases in Solar Fuels Devices
Paul Kempler,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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Saturday, January 11th, 2020
11:30am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kontogiannis Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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Sunday, January 12th, 2020
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Monday, January 13th, 2020
11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Light-Matter Interactions for Energy Storage and Thermal Management
Yuan Yang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Conceptual Model of Evolutionary Novelty and Innovation, with application to the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation
Doug Erwin,
Senior Research Biologist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates,
Department of Paleobiology,
Smithsonian, Museum Natural History,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Thinking about Simulations of Quantum Field Theories using Digital Quantum Computers
Martin Savage,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Land Concentration and Long-Run Development: Evidence from the Frontier United States
Cory Smith,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
8:00pm
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Stellar Flares and Habitable (?) M-dwarf Worlds with TESS
Max Gunther,
Postdoc,
MIT,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
SEMINAR RESCHEDULED TO 05/26/2020
Marian Walhout,
Professor,
Molecular Medicine,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
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Astronomy Colloquium
Do We Understand Tidal Disruption Events?
Wenbin Lu,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Data-Driven Control for Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
Yuanyuan Shi,
Fifth-year PhD student,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decarbonizing Natural Gas by Reactive Separation in High Temperature Liquids
Eric McFarland,
University of California Santa Barbara,
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
An activity-guided map of electrophile-cysteine interactions in primary human immune cells.
Ekaterina Vinogradova,
LSRF Pfizer Research Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
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Thursday, January 16th, 2020
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
History of the Free Body Diagram
John F. Hall,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Nitrene Transfer Catalyzed by a Non-Heme Iron Enzyme and Enhanced by Non-Native Small- Molecule Ligands"
Nathaniel Goldberg,
Graduate Student, Arnold Group, CCE,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Face
Jessica Helfand,
Artist-in-Residence (Winter 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center,
Caltech,
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neurons that control social states in Drosophila Melanogaster
Yon II Jung,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
2:45pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hida-theoretic simplicial deformation rings and Selmer groups
Jacques Tilouine,
Universite Paris 13,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Local p-indecomposability of modular p-adic Galois representations
Haruzo Hida,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Cosmology in the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves
Marcelle Soares-Santos,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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Ruth & Eddie Hughes Lecture
How is electrical signal generated? Structural and mechanistic investigations of Nav channels
Nieng Yan,
Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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Friday, January 17th, 2020
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Hemisphere partition function, LG orbifolds and FJRW invariants
Mauricio Romo,
Tsinghua University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Victor Albert,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Cleaving Strong Bonds through Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
Matthew J. Chalkley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Optimal perturbations in linear stability of two fluid columns of different densities subject to gravity
3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Novel Chemistry of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Nitric Radicals and New Ambiphilic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Professor Eunsung Lee,
Visiting Associate in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Posterior Contraction Rates for Some Possibly Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Sergios Agapiou,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Cyprus,
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