Institute Calendar
August 2020
Monday, August 3rd, 2020
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Decoding and bootstrapping cosmological fluctuations
Guilherme Pimentel,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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8/7
4:00pm
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
9:00am
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8/7
5:00pm
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11:00am
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Arrow's Theorem, May's Axioms, and the Borda Count
Eric S. Maskin,
Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, August 6th, 2020
11:00am
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4:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar Talks
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Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions: A Radical Alternative to SN1 and SN2 Reactions
Greg Fu,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, August 7th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Eleven-dimensional Supergravity with Four Off-shell Supersymmetries
William Linch,
Texas A&M,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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8/14
4:00pm
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Webinar: Lunar Trailblazer - A Caltech-led Pioneering Small Satellite for Lunar Water and Lunar Geology
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
10:00am
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12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
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Holographic baby universes: an observable story
Monica Kang,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms
Joseph Root,
Linde Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thursday, August 13th, 2020
10:15am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Voting During the Pandemic: The Benefits and Challenges of Voting in the Time of COVID-19
Online Event
Dr. Barry Burden,
Director of the Elections Research Center and Professor of Electoral Politics,
University of Wisconsin Madison,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar Talks
Online Event
Active Matter
John Brady,
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, August 14th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Moonshine, Supersymmetry, and Quantum Codes
Greg Moore,
Rutgers,
Monday, August 17th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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High frequency gravitational waves
Valerie Domcke,
CERN & EPFL Lausanne,
10:00am
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10:15am
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11:00am
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQI Weekly Seminar
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New perspectives on covariant quantum error correction
Sisi Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Active Flat Optics Wavefront Manipulation for Imaging, Ranging, and Sensing
Seyed Mohammadreza (Reza) Fatemi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
10:00am
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10:15am
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
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Borel complexity of arbitrary relations
Dominique Lecomte,
Université de Picardie, Sorbonne Université,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Auctions of Homogeneous Goods: A Case for Pay-as-Bid
Marek Pycia,
Professor of Organizational Economics,
University of Zurich,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Venus: Earth's Evil Twin or Just Misunderstood?
Online Event
Sue Smrekar,
Rocky Planet Geoscientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, August 21st, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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O-plane Backreaction and Scale Separation in Type IIA Flux Vacua
Daniel Junghans,
Heidelberg University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:15pm
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, August 24th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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First observation of triple boson production at CMS
Si Xie,
Caltech,
10:00am
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10:15am
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2:00pm
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
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10:30am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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The first evidence for second generation Yukawa couplings to the Higgs Boson as seen by the CMS detector at LHC, CERN
Irene Dutta,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
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Covariant Quantum Error Correcting Codes via Reference Frames
Mischa Woods,
ETH Zürich,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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On the Empirical Validity of Cumulative Prospect Theory: Experimental Evidence of Rank-Independent Probability Weighting
Charlie Sprenger,
Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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Thursday, August 27th, 2020
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
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"Investigation of transport phenomena of thermal acoustic excitations in semi-crystalline and amorphous materials using transient grating spectroscopy"
Taeyong Kim,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
10:00am
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10:15am
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Friday, August 28th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
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Open-Shell Diiron Carbyne Complexes Relevant to Nitrogenase
Charles Arnett,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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10:15am
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