Institute Calendar
March 2022
Friday, March 11th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Going against the flow in fluid animation
Mathieu Desbrun,
Carl F Braun Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematic Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The chemical distance in random interlacements in the low-intensity regime
Eviatar Procaccia,
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Friday, March 11th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Exotic Field Theories: Lifshitz Theory, Tensor Gauge Theory, and Fractons
Nathan Seiberg,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Hunting for alternative sources of r-process elements
Jennifer Barnes,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
Sunday, March 13th, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 14th, 2022
8:00am
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3/16
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Fast Transient Studies from Massive Survey Streams: How We Enable Them, and What We Can Learn
Alex Gagliano,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Breaking Scaling Relationships in CO2 Reduction on Copper Alloys with Organic Additives
Nicholas B. (Nick) Watkins,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Coronal Mass Ejections and Exoplanets: A Numerical Perspective
Julian Alvarado-Gomez,
Postdoctoral Scholar - Karl Schwarzschild Fellow,
Astrophysics Potsdam,
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Common Agency without Delegation
Siyang Xiong,
Professor of Economics,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
All Day
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11:00am
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11:45am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Exoplanet Adventures in the 2020s and Beyond
Jayne Birkby,
Associate Professor of Exoplanetary Science,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Epichaperomes – on how to impact and rebalance proteome-wide protein-protein interaction networks in disease
Dr. Gabriela Chiosis,
Laboratory Head,
Department of Chemical Biology,
Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute,
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
8:00am
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3/25
11:59pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
A free energy-based framework for scale bridging in crystalline solids--with some use of machine learning methods
Krishna Garikipati,
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Mathematics,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
A Conical Intersection Influences the Ground State Rearrangement of Fulvene to Benzene
G. Barney Ellison,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder CO,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
Moon Dance: Dynamics of the Moons of the Outer Solar System
Marina Brozovic,
Navigation Engineer,
NASA/JPL,
- Public Event
Friday, March 18th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Ligand Flexibility in Surface-Inspired Cluster Chemistry
Neil C. Tomson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Probing Neutrino Mass Models at Neutrino Telescopes
Bhupal Dev,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Monday, March 21st, 2022
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Capturing Nuclear Quantum Effects at Classical Efficiency: A Path-Integral Approach
Xuecheng Tao,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, March 24th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, March 25th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Synthesis and Applications of Fused Heterocyclic Carbocations
Thomas L. Gianetti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Arizona,
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Expansion, divisibility and parity
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
The Role of Astronomers in Addressing Climate Change
Travis Rector,
University of Alaska Anchorage,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Calculation of Inflation Correlators at One Loop
Yiming Zhong,
KICP, University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Self-similar gravitational collapse for the Euler-Poisson equations
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Accurate and transferable molecular-orbital-based machine learning for molecular modeling
Lixue Cheng,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning & Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Examining Occam's Razor in Deep Neural Networks Using Kolmogorov Complexity
3:59pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Seismology: Results from Mars crust to core and a return to the Moon
Mark Panning,
Research Scientist,
Planetary Science,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Informationally Robust Bilateral Trade
Songzi Du,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
9:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constrained Willmore Surfaces
Peter Schröder,
Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Demographics of Stars and Exoplanets in the Era of TESS and Gaia
Daniel Huber,
Assistant Astronomer/Professor,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The Geometry of the Bing Involution
Michael Freedman,
Microsoft Research & UC Santa Barbara,