Institute Calendar
May 2021
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Monday, May 3rd, 2021
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Positivity Bounds for Cosmology
Scott Melville,
DAMTP, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Qi Lei,
Princeton,
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
8:00am
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5/28
6:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The matrix-weighted Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is unbounded
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Alberto Ríos,
Writer and Poet,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Controlling Interfacial Electron and Atom Transfer Reactions for Chemical Synthesis
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
9:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Driven Dynamical Systems and Control
Steve Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor / Adjunct Associate Professor,
Mechanincal Engineering / Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inaguaral OCS Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Interrogating enzymatic reactions using nucleic acid molecular recognition and assembly
Jennifer M. Heemstra,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Emorry University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Rational Anabolic Persuasion
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University & University College London,
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Wenlong Ma,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Black Hole Mass Measurement with ALMA
Aaron Barth,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Observing the bottom limb of the MOC: new insight into deep water formation and transformation from Deep Argo and deep ocean microstructure measurements
Sarah Purkey,
University of California San Diego,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Controlling Zeolite Polymorphism from First Principles
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
9:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Mehran Tehrani,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
More than one sensorial modality to do mainstream science in astronomy?
Dr. Wanda Díaz-Merced,
Astronomer,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Nonstandard thermal histories and the small-scale matter power spectrum
Jessie Shelton,
UIUC,
12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Ke Yu,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
A molecular thermostat switches on alternative chaperone activity during heat stress
Dr. Alex Siegel, Shan Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Sarnak's density hypothesis in horizontal families
Mikołaj Frączyk,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
9:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
The cycle of matter in the magnetized interstellar medium as revealed by machine vision
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Flatspace Holography: Celestial Amplitudes and Symmetries
Monica Pate,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Electron (De) Localization in f-Element Systems: From Fundamental Questions to QIS Design Principles
Henry S. La Pierre,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Control of Wall-Bounded Turbulence Through Closed-Loop Wall Transpiration
Online Event
Simon Toedtli
Simon Toedtli,
PhD Candidate,
Aeronautics,
GALCIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
5:00pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
8:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation
Michael Ewens,
Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Convex Graph Parameters and Their Applications
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Cosmology at the end of the world
Brian Swingle,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Electrical Engineering Systems & Medical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Smart NFC implantable optogenetic neuromodulator for frontier neuroscience research
Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics,
Northwestern University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"Lunar Radio Telescope" and "SOFIA Telescope Aboard a 747 Jet"
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Biomechanical Regulation of Organ Growth"
Kenneth Irvine,
Professor,
olecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Rutgers University,
12:00pm
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning-based Planning and Control: Opportunities and Challenges
Jonathan How,
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Classification of the approximability of all finite Max-CSPs in the dynamic streaming setting
Santhoshini Velusamy,
Graduate Student,
Harvard University,
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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Monitoring Teams
Marina Halac,
Professor of Economics and Director of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Don't Fear the Spiders: New Insights from Redback Millisecond Pulsars
Jay Strader,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A surprising role for microbial "antibiotics" in the promotion of phosphorus bioavailability
Darcy McRose,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Watson Lecture - From the Soil to the Clinic: How Infection-Causing Microbes Thrive Without Oxygen
Online Event
Dianne K. Newman,
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Executive Officer for Molecular Biology,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
8:30am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Neural codes in early sensory areas maximize fitness
Todd Hare,
Associate Professor of Neuroeconomics and Human Development,
University of Zurich,
10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to applications
Shengqiang Cai,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Developing multivalent nanoparticle vaccines against current and future viruses
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
CDRexAb: Antibody Small-Molecule Conjugates with Computationally Designed Target-Binding Synergy
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
*Seminar cancelled*
Dr. Daniel Dar (Newman Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Searching for Dark Matter Interactions throughout Cosmic History
Kim Boddy,
UT Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Hanna Rose Shell,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech (returning 2022); Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado-Boulder,
Friday, May 14th, 2021
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Worldsheet correlators in AdS3
Lorenz Eberhardt,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Online Event
"Single-Nanoconstruct Dynamics and Interactions on Live-Cell Membranes"
Teri W. Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei
Rostom Mbarek,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Khovanov homology via Floer theory of the 4-punctured sphere
3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Probing the Buckling of Thin Shell Space Structures
Online Event
Fabien Royer
Fabien Royer,
PhD Candidate,
Aeronautics,
GALCIT,
Saturday, May 15th, 2021
9:00am
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Monday, May 17th, 2021
12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The Law of Large Numbers for Large Stable Matchings
Jacob Schwartz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Haifa,
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Adrienne Su,
Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence,
Dickinson College,
- Public Event
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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Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market
Karam Kang,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
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Tiling the integers with translates of one tile: the Coven-Meyerowitz tiling conditions for three prime factors
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
The Adaptive Charging Network Research Portal: Systems, Tools, and Algorithms
Zachary Lee,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
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Leveraging coupled atmosphere-interior-redox models to predict terrestrial planet atmospheric evolution and anticipate exoplanet biosignatures
Joshua Krissansen-Totten,
NASA Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, Santa Cruz,