Institute Calendar
January 2022
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum-chemical calculations for ultracold ion-atom scattering experiments
Michal Tomza,
Habilitaiton in Physics,
Faculty of Physics,
University of Warsaw,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Effectiveness, Co-benefits, and Penalties of Adopting Solar Reflective Surfaces in Cities and Other Climate Change Mitigation/Adaptation Strategies
Jiachen Zhang,
University of Southern California, California Air Resources Board,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rocket Fund Graduate Student/Postdoc Information Session
Online Event
Andrea Choe, MD, PhD,
Founder and CEO, Holoclara, Inc.,
Cody Finke,
Founder and CEO, Brimstone Energy,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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CANCELED: Watson Lecture - When Earth Breathed Deeply
Online Event
Claire E. Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nonlinear Dynamics of Soft Filaments
Neda Maghsoodi, Ph.D.,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions
Jake H. Rochman,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
CaCO3 dissolution in carbonate-poor shelf sands increases with ocean acidification; Constraining CaCO3 export and dissolution with an ocean alkalinity model
Abby Lunstrum,
Graduate Student,
University of Southern California,
Hengdi Liang,
Graduate Student,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Life in a Tight Spot: How Bacteria Swim, Disperse, and Grow in Crowded Spaces
Sujit S. Datta,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Contracting and vertical control by a dominant platform
Ellen Muir,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
SWOT: Looking at the Earth's Water
Cedric David,
Supervisor of JPL's Water & Ecosystems Group,
NASA/JPL,
- Public Event
Friday, January 21st, 2022
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Magnetism and Superconductivity in Crystalline Few-layer Graphene
Haoxin Zhou,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Building Next-Generation Mathematical Models and Methods for Real-World Multiphysics Simulations
Daniel Zhengyu Huang,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
From 3-manifolds to modular data
Yang Qiu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ultra Lighweight shape Adaptable Composites for Aerospace and Biomedical Applications
Online Event
Paolo Ermanni,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
Saturday, January 22nd, 2022
2:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Arzoumanian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, January 24th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
Hanna Schwank,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The Number of Rational Points on a Curve of Genus > 1
Philipp Habegger,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Basel,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Reinforcement learning for designing quantum protocols
Alexey A. Melnikov,
Terra Quantum AG,
Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Atomic Layer Processing for Better Quantum Devices
Russ Renzas,
Quantum Technology Manager,
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
All Gas no Brakes: Uncovering the gas physics driving galaxy evolution
Jed McKinney,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Questionnaires to PDEs: Emergent Dynamic Models from Disorganized Data
Yannis Kevrekidis,
Bloomberg Distinguisher Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics,
Johns Hopkins University / Whiting School of Engineering,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Analyticity and Unitarity for Cosmological Correlators
Victor Gorbenko,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
A Love Letter to XPS: Characterization of an Earth-Abundant OER Catalyst
John M. (Jake) Evans,
Graduate Student (Lewis Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
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12:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unveiling the early stages of planet formation
Myriam Benisty,
Staff Astronomer,
University of Grenoble,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Harmonic analysis over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ and decoupling
Zane Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University Bloomington,
4:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Online Event
Phononic Frequency Combs
Adarsh Venkataraman Ganesan,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
US National Institute of Standards and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Women in Chemistry Seminar - Dr. Christie Canaria
Online Event
Interagency Policy Specialist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce
Christie A. Canaria,
PhD,
Technology Partnerships Office (TPO),
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
An effective strengthening of Mathias' theorem
Severin Mejak,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Copenhagen University,
3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Multi-messenger Studies of Relativistic Jets at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Anthony (Tony) Readhead,
Robinson Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Towards a truly global ocean science enterprise: Ocean Corps and the Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana
Brian Arbic,
University of Michigan,
Joseph Ansong,
University of Ghana,
Paige Martin,
Columbia University,
Tashiana Osborne,
Johns Hopkins University,
Dimitris Menemenlis,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Small Defects, Big Deal: Using point defects to control giant opto-mechanics and to engineer new resistive switches
Rafael Jaramillo,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Computationally Tractable Choice
Modibo Camara,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Elastic wave control through topology and curvature
Massimo Ruzzene,
Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Prospects for observing gravitationally-lensed gravitational-wave transients with second-generation detector networks
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Measuring pharmacokinetics of neural drugs at cellular and subcellular levels, via fluorescent sensors"
Dr. Aaron L. Nichols,
Lester Group,
Caltech,
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Geology Club Seminar
Controls on river avulsion style and stratigraphy in foreland basins
Jeff Valenza,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Friday, January 28th, 2022
8:00am
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9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Accelerated computational micromechanics"
Hao Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Floquet engineering of quantum materials on demand
Junyi Shan,
Graduate Student, Hsieh Group,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Conformal Field Theory for SLEs
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
D-instanton Superpotential in String Theory
Manki Kim,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Stellar feedback in galaxies: from the dense interstellar medium to circumgalactic gas
Benjamin Keller,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
MUSTANG Group, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Universität Heidelberg,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Highly Flexible Plates Interacting with a Free Surface: Passive Reconfiguration
Online Event
Christine Gilbert,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Monday, January 31st, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Fast Radio Burst exploration with Apertif
Ines Pastor-Marazuela,
University of Amsterdam,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Quadratic forms in 8 prime variables
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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