Institute Calendar
March 2020
Sunday, March 15th, 2020
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 16th, 2020
8:00am
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3/18
11:59pm
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11:00am
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3/20
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: BELS
" 'Smart' Agricultural Systems: Plants and Bacteria that Surveil and Respond to Their Environment"
Chris Voigt,
Professor,
Biological Engineering,
MIT,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Literary Dimensions Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Rachel Adams,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University,
4:20pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Did Venus have oceans, and if so, when did it lose them?
Greg Laughlin,
Professor of Astronomy,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
8:00am
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11:59pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Katie Bouman,
Assistant Professor of Computing, Mathematical Sciences, and Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Chemical Thinking About Systems Neuroscience for Research and Therapy
Scott Sternson,
Group Leader,
Department of Chemical Biology and Neuroscience,
HHMI, Janelia Research,
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.
Yuya Sasaki,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Vanderbilt University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Megasupramolecules: When Disaster Leads to Discovery
Julia A. Kornfield,
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
8:00am
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3/29
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Chemical Dissection of Microbiota in Cancer Immunotherapy
Howard Hang,
Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical Biology,
Rockefeller University,
Friday, March 20th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: PhD Thesis Defense
Development and Mechanistic Investigation of Potassium tert-Butoxide Catalyzed C–H Silylation
David Schuman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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3:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
This symposium has been canceled.
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Cosmological evolution without time
Paolo Benincasa,
Bohr Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Shuoyan (Sam) Xiong,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 23rd, 2020
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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3/27
4:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: BELS
TBD
Kelly Stevens,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering and Pathology,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Physics Seminar
Observing and creating structures of low-dimensional matter using ultrafast electron microscopy.
Oh-Hoon Kwon,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar
"Differentiation, Communication, and Emergence in Ant Societies"
Daniel Kronauer,
Associate Professor,
Social Evolution and Behavior,
Rockefeller University,
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
10:00am
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10:30am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Dana Moshkovitz,
Associate Professor,
University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Thursday, March 26th, 2020
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Friday, March 27th, 2020
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: From Pencil Lead to Skyscrapers: Building the Future with Carbon Nanomaterials
Michael F. Mazza,
Graduate Student,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Structural Transformations and Anion Redox in Alkali-Rich Metal Oxides and Sulfides
Joshua Zak,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Real Images of Exoplanets (None of that Artist Conception Stuff)
- Public Event
Monday, March 30th, 2020
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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Ongoing
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Linking microbes and climate: Redox-informed metabolic biogeography and controls on marine dissolved organic carbon storage
Emily Zakem,
Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Bilogical Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
New Constraints on Dark Matter from Organic Targets: What Organic Chemistry Can do for Direct Detection
Carlos Blanco,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Physics Seminar
Nonlinear Infrared Microscopy
Eric Potma,
Professor (Joint Appointment) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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.
Cesar Martinelli,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
George Mason University,
4:23pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Steve Markham,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,