Institute Calendar
February 2022
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Isomer separation of multifunctional atmospheric compounds using gas chromatography and chemical ionization mass spectrometry
Krystal T. Vasquez,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Tidal energy in Newtonian two-body motion
Sohrab Shahshahani,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Iterated Cauchy--Schwarz arguments and true complexity
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Dynamics at Individual Defects with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
David Flannigan,
Associate Professor and L.E. Scriven Chair, DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Chris Mankovich,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
8:00am
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2/8
11:59pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
A circuit-level protocol and analysis for twist-based lattice surgery
Christopher Chamberland,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Approaching the solar dynamo from unusual angles: M-dwarf stars, polar views, and different dynamo mechanisms
Benjamin Brown,
Assistant Professor,
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Decarbonizing Ammonia Using Plasma Catalysis and Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate in Wastewaters
Lea Winter,
NEWT Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Controlling interfacial electron and atom transfer reactions for chemical synthesis
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Multifunctional Bioinspired Composites
Tommaso Magrini,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Quantum Optimal Transport Learning Seminar
Quantum Optimal Transport Learning Seminar
Juan Pablo Vigneaux,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics
Caterina Vernieri,
SLAC,
Friday, February 4th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The O(n) and S_Q Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions
Hubert Saleur,
University of Southern California,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Numerical PDEs: Fast Rate, Scaling Law and Minimax Optimalit
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Are mesoscale effects needed to predict condensed-phase explosive performance?
Online Event
Scott Jackson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Mapping the Universe with Atoms and Molecules that Shine
- Public Event
Monday, February 7th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Eichler-Shimura relations
Si Ying Lee,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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MedE Ph.D. Defense: Haeri Park Hanania
Online Event
Nanophotonic application to biomedical devices
Haeri Park Hanania,
Medical Engineering PhD Student,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Online Event
Abelian Varieties not Isogenous to Jacobians over global fields
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems
Apurva Oza,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles
Cristian Peña,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Alkylations of Anilines by Racemic TertiaryElectrophiles: Synthesis and Mechanism
Hyungdo Cho,
Graduate Student (Fu Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The time-like minimal surface equation in Minkowski space: low regularity solutions
2:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Martin Cordiner,
Research Associate,
Astrochemistry and Planetary Science,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
4:00pm
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6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance
Ilya Kuprov,
University of Southampton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable combinatorics in hyperfinite graphs
Matthew Bowen,
McGill University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Galaxy Evolution with Space-Based Spectroscopy: From Hubble to JWST and Beyond
Casey Papovich,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Supercooling super-droplets: on particle-based modelling of immersion freezing
Sylwester Arabas,
UIUC/Jagiellonian University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Reading Between the Reflections: Order, disorder, transport and functionality
Jessica Krogstad,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Design of Solids and Surfaces
Dr. Megan Jackson,
Department of Chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Eleonora Patacchini,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy, Cornell University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special SIAM Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Novel design and analysis of generalized FEMs based on locally optimal spectral approximations
Chupeng Ma,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Numerical Analysis and UQ,
Heidelberg University,
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Scaling of Triggered Seismicity and Permeability Evolution in the Subsurface – A Key Need in the Energy Transition
Derek Elsworth,
Professor,
Departments of Energy and Mineral Engineering and of Geosciences and the Center for Geomechanics, Geofluids, and Geohazards.,
Penn State,
1:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
From Trash to Treasure: Advancing the Heterogeneous Catalytic Deconstruction and Upcycling of Waste Polyolefins
Julie Rorrer,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Mechanism of G-Protein Activation by G-Protein-Coupled Receptors and Therapeutics"
Dr. Amirhossein Mafi,
Goddard Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
Marilena Loverde,
University of Washington,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: MaxCut, Spin Glass, and Beyond
Leo Zhou,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Substrate-Selective Control of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Reveals the Untapped Enzymology of Exosite Inhibition
Dr. Juan Pablo Maianti,
Co-founder, Exo Therapeutics,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Waists, widths and symplectic embeddings
Jonathan Zhu,
Mathematics Department,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Shallow cumulus convection large-eddy simulations and Galilean invariance
Online Event
Georgios Matheou,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Connecticut,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrochemical CO2 Capture, Concentration, and Conversion
Jenny Y. Yang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
9:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Beyond the Omics Crystal ball: Integrating Omics approaches to study ecosystem functions
Smruthi Karthikeyan,
UC San Diego,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Crystalline local systems
Yong Suk Moon,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Efficient, problem-tailored variational quantum algorithms
Sophia Economou,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Online Event
Varieties of general type with doubly exponential asymptotics
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC
Ian Moult,
Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
"Phthalocyanine Oligomers as Slurry-State Electrolytes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries and Ligand Field Spectroscopy of Chiral Nickel Halide Complexes"
Brandon McNicholas,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quasi-Periodic Topological Bulk-Bulk Correspondence and the Dry Ten Martini Problem
Dan Borgnia,
Physics: Quantum Condensed Matter,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning & Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Optimal Langevin Samplers
Greg Pavliotis,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College London,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Environment-Sensitive Probes for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Mireille Kamariza,
Junior Research Fellow,
Division of Chemistry,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Synthesis of Quantum Material Building Blocks
Thomas J. Kempa,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering,
Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Jason Williams,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics and Impacts of Changing Climate Hazards: From quantitative approaches to process understanding
Frances Davenport,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Different Differences
Ron Buckmire,
Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs; Professor, Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Occidental College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Orbit equivalences of multidimensional Borel flows
Konstantin Slutsky,
Department of Mathematics,
Iowa State University,
12:00pm
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3:30pm
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CDS Special Seminar
Online Event
From Robust Control to Robust Machine and Reinforcement Learning: A Unifying Theory via Performance and Risk Tradeoff
Dr. John S. Baras,
Distinguished University Professor and Endowed Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering,
Institute for Systems Research,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Stress-Testing the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan,
Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studying climate through a spectral lens
Xianglei Huang,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Novel Indexing Approaches for Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction: Using the Complete Pattern
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalyst Development & Kinetic Investigation of ATRA Reactions: Integrating Undergraduate Research and Chemical Education
Kayode Oshin,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Director, CAS Haddix STEM Corridor Program,
Creighton University,
4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Non-Native Chemistry of Metalloenzymes
Nathaniel Goldberg,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,