Institute Calendar
September 2020
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
A dichotomy for Polish modules
Joshua Frisch,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
A Strong Minimax Theorem for Informationally-Robust Auction Design
Ben Brooks,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Optical light manipulation and imaging through scattering media
Jian Xu,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Webinar: Robotic Exploration of Titan with Dragonfly - An Overview of the Lander Mobility System
Online Event
- Public Event
Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar Talks
Online Event
Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy of Molecular Liquids and Clusters
Geoffrey Blake,
Professor of Cosmochemistry and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Chemistry,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Friday, September 4th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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5:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
The Exceptional Astronomical Discoveries of the Ancient Greeks
- Public Event
Saturday, September 5th, 2020
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
8:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
The representation theory of the Clifford group, with sundry applications
David Gross,
Professor of Physics,
University of Cologne,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
High-aspect ratio structures in light-absorbers and electrocatalysts for solar fuels devices
Paul A. Kempler,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Molecular Engineering of Materials for Chemical Sensing and Microelectronics
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Optimal persuasion via bi-pooling
Yakov Babichenko,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,
Technion,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, September 10th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar Talks
Online Event
The "N"s and outs of structural biology
Douglas Rees,
Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Graduate Studies,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, September 11th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Higgs-confinement phase transitions with fundamental representation matter
Srimoyee Sen,
Iowa State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Controlling the Dynamics of Microstructure Formation in Mixed-Matrix Polymeric-Particle Membranes
Rachel Ford,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, September 14th, 2020
8:00am
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9/16
12:00pm
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
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10:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Improved thermal area law and quasi-linear time algorithm for quantum Gibbs states
Anurag Anshu,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
12:00am
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Ongoing
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Twists and turns along the path of reactivity-driven methods development
Hosea Nelson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Simultaneous Search: Beyond Independent Successes
Ran Shorrer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Penn State University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Solving Sparse Linear Systems Faster than Matrix Multiplication
Richard Peng,
Assistant Professor,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
10:30am
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10:45am
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9/19
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von Kármán Lecture - Visualizing Space Exploration: AR, VR & Emerging Tech
Online Event
Sasha Samochina,
Deputy Manager,
Ops Lab,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Jason Craig,
Visualization Producer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, September 18th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
To average or not to average
Jan de Boer,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Improving Reduced Order Models of Soil-Structure Interaction Using an Ensemble Kalman Inversion Finite Element Model Updating Framework
Danilo S. Kusanovic,
PhD Graduate Student,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Sunday, September 20th, 2020
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9/27
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Monday, September 21st, 2020
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9/25
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
1D Noisy Random Circuit Sampling & Experimental Aspects of Bosonic QEC
Kyungjoo Noh,
Research Scientist,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Stochastic Local Search and the Lovasz Local Lemma
Fotis Iliopoulos,
Post-doctoral scholar,
Institute for Advanced Study,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:30am
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
On phase spaces of universal minimal flows of groups with compact normal subgroups
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
When Choices are Mistakes
Kirby Nielsen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
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Friday, September 25th, 2020
10:00am
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Symposium
Online Event
Christopher Alabi,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
Lauren Zarzar,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering,
Penn State University,
Ying Diao,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Moon Jeong Park,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH),
10:00am
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