Institute Calendar
March 2020
Ongoing
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3/11
4:00pm
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3/11
5:00pm
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Sunday, March 1st, 2020
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
"Neuron-Glia Circuits for Controlling Behavioral State"
Misha Ahrens,
Group Leader,
Janelia Research Campus,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Anthropogenic impacts to the remote high altitudes
Monica Arienzo,
Assistant Research Professor Hydrology,
Division of Hydrologic Sciences,
Deseart Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Learning Methods for Decentralized Decision Making in IoT/CPS Systems
Urbashi Mitra,
Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering,
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Targeting Energy Solutions: From Fundamental to Applied Inorganic Redox Chemistry
Gabriel Menard,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
8:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Marzena Rostek,
Professor of Economics,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"How Maternal Transcription Factors Shape Early Embryonic Chromatin Landscape in Time and Space"
Ken Cho,
Professor,
Developmental & Cell Biology,
University of Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Insights on Neutron-Star Matter from Gravitational Waves, Hotspots and Massive Pulsars
Phil Landry,
Cal State, Fullerton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
The Reconstruction of Colour Worlds
Sven Dupré,
Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology,
Utrecht University,
4:17pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The Previously Unexplored GMC Survey: Preliminary Results
N. Wallack & O. Wilkins,
Graduate Students,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Imaging with Waves
Liliana Borcea,
Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
8:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Synthesis of enantioenriched 2,2-disubstituted pyrrolidines and [7,7]paracyclophanes
Elizabeth Goldstein,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
FRB Science Results from CHIME
Kendrick Smith,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Empirical Risk Minimization in High-dimensions: Asymptotics, Optimality and Double Descent
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Urs Baltensperger,
Paul Scherrer Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Extinction: a (pre-)history
Jeremy Schneider,
Graduate Student,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Things Fall Apart: Materials Failures in Paul Cezanne's and Edvard Munch's Masterpieces
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis of Glycopolymers and Responsive Materials for Therapeutic Protein Delivery
Heather Maynard,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
We are What We Watch: Movie Contents Predict the Personality of Their Social Media Fans
Gideon Nave,
Assistant Professor of Marketing,
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Cameron Hummels,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, March 5th, 2020
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Utilizing Remote Sensing to Assess the Implication of Tall Building Performance on the Seismic Resilience of Urban Centers
Henry Burton,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Special Neuro Seminar
Richard Addante,
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Lab,
CSU, San Bernardino,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Lars Josef Schwan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED - K-theory
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Physics Colloquium
CANCELLED - The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Netta Engelhardt,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich
Eric Zwick,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Booth School of Business,
University of Chicago,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
"The oxygenation of the Earth: an igneous perspective"
Claire Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
GPS,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, March 6th, 2020
9:00am
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4:20pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Energy Dissipation Rate for Eshelby Transformations and Mesoscale Modeling of Shear Transformation (STZ) Plasticity
Alan Needleman,
University Distinguished Professor, TEES Eminent Research Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black hole information, spacetime wormholes, baby universes and ensembles
Henry Maxfield,
UCSB,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Caltech Diversity Center Seminar
How to Approach the Faculty Job Search and Still Keep Your Cool
Chris M. Golde, PhD,
Career Educator,
Stanford Career Education,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Matter and Metrology far from Equilibrium
Norman Yao,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Thinking Inside the Box – Microwave Radiometry on CubeSats
Boon Lim,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
SL(3) foam evaluation and its relation to the Kronheimer-Mrowka homology theory of graphs
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Professor of Early Modern Europe and History of Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Simone Steinbrüchel,
Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a [4W-13Fe-12S] Cluster
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Investigating Earth's deep mantle buoyancy and frequency dependent behavior using Earth tides
Harriet Lau,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, March 7th, 2020
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 8th, 2020
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Nina Gu,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Physiology of Antibody Conjugates and Natural Products
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Good Vibrations: Deciphering complex wavefields for deep Earth, shallow Mars, explosions and elephants
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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3/17
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: High Energy Physics Seminar
Deep Learning, Quantum Information, and the LHC as a Gluon Factory
Benjamin Nachman,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
BCOV axioms of Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau 3-fold
Yongbin Ruan,
Zhejiang University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Emily Finn,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
National Institute of Mental Health,
Dartmouth College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ocean controls on global carbon cycle
Laure Resplandy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences and at the Princeton Envieonmental Institute,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Unearthing Periodicity in the Tuning of Chemical Reactivity by Lewis Acids: From 3d to 5f
James D. Blakemore,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Kansas,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: Women in Chemistry Breakfast with Professor Olvera de la Cruz
Women in Chemistry Breakfast with Professor Olvera de la Cruz
- Public Event
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Shuwa Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Kaushiki Menon,
Associate Research Scientist,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: IST Lunch Bunch
Unearthing the Relationship Between Graph Neural Networks and Matrix Factorization
Bruno Ribeiro,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Physics Seminar
Control of Soft Matter with Magnetic Fields
Monica Olvera de la Cruz,
Lawrence Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Don Howard,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Neptune viewed with the VLA, ALMA, and whatever comes next
Joshua Tollefson,
Post Doc,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special KNI Seminar
3D Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials
Martin Wegener,
Professor Institute of Applied Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Favorite-Longshot Midas
Etan Green,
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, Decision,
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Reasoning About Generalization via Conditional Mutual Information
Thomas Steinke,
Researcher,
IBM Almaden,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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