Institute Calendar
May 2020
Monday, April 27th, 2020
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5/1
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
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5/5
5:00pm
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Friday, May 1st, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
Kantaro Ohmori,
SCGP, Stony Brook University,
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
Online Event
Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications
Mykel Kochenderfer,
Professor,
Aeronautics & Astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Dr. Trevor Lohrey,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Wedding Photography on Campus: Touloumdjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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5/8
4:00pm
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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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2:25pm
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5/15
11:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
TBD
Claudio Faccenna,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: H. B. Keller Colloquium
**CANCELLED** Variations on a theme by George Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Method
Jesus De Loera,
Professor of Mathematics,
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Online Event
Invariants of 4-manifolds from Khovanov-Rozansky link homology
Paul Wedrich,
Max Planck Institute/University of Bonn/MSRI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Composite Higgs Models at the LHC and beyond
Da Liu,
UC Davis,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
11:15am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Structure, Function, and Application of Bacterial ABC Transporters
Chengcheng Fan,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar
TBD
Elissa Hallem,
Associate Professor,
Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
An improved approximation algorithm for TSP in the half integral case
Nathan Klein,
Graduate Student,
University of Washington,
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Big Ramsey degrees for finite binary classes forbidding finitely many structures
Andy Zucker,
Université Lyon 1,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Stability and Robustness in Misspecified Learning Models
Mira Frick,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Collin L. Broholm,
Gerhard H. Dieke Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in the Membraneless Organelles and Stressed Proteome
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Arun Nagpal,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Kevin Kaichuang Yang,
Alumnus,
Celeste Labedz,
Graduate Student,
Geophysics,
- Public Event
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
This seminar has been canceled.
Felicity Meakins,
Associate Professor of Linguistics,
The University of Queensland, Australia,
Thursday, May 7th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fast and Guaranteed Safe Controller Synthesis for Dynamical Systems
Chuchu Fan,
Dr.,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Finance Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Michael Sockin,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
McCombs School of Business,
UT Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Biomolecular ultrasound imaging of in vivo phagolysosomal function"
Bill Ling,
Shapiro Group, Caltech,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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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: Biochemistry Seminar
Base editing and prime editing: chemistry on the genome without double-strand breaks
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, May 8th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
Dan Harlow,
MIT,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Simulating the collapse of false-vacuum bubbles in spin chains
Ash Milsted,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Got Stress? Visualizing and Inferring Film Stresses in patterned Wafers
Ares Rosakis,
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
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: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Alberto Naveira Garabato,
University of Southampton, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ryan Ribson,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 9th, 2020
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2020
9:00am
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9:00am
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