Institute Calendar
April 2022
Friday, April 1st, 2022
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Charge and heat transport in non-metallic crystals using first-principles Boltzmann transport theory"
Peishi Cheng,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X.
Michael Freedman,
USCB/Microsoft,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X
Michael Freedman,
USCB/Microsoft,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Minimum-Information Kalman-Bucy filtering limitation of continuous-time data compression
Takashi Tanaka,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
A positive proportion of integers are not the sum of two rational cubes
Manjul Bhargava,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures
Eliezer Rabinovici,
CERN, HU of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Intermediate mass black holes everywhere?
James Paynter,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
The Origins of Legal Literature in Europe: From the Big Bang to the Formation of Multiple Galaxies
Emanuele Conte,
Professor of Legal History and Department Director of Legal History and Theory,
at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
"Record Level Selectivity for C≥2 Products in Strong Acid on Cu Electrodes Provided by N-Heterocycle Organic Additives."
Gavin Heim,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise
Bin Zhang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Associate Member of the Broad Institute, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Professorship,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachussetts Institute of Technolocy,
4:07pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity
Saverio Cambioni,
Crosby Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
MIT,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
9:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Targeting Fusion Proteins of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
Claudia Jette,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Constructing Wadge classes and describing Wadge quasi-orders
Raphaël Carroy,
University of Turin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Precision Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar
Ingrid Stairs,
Professor,
Division of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
First-Principles Many-Body Theory and Quantum Dynamics for Materials in Quantum Information Science
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"Self-organized morphogenesis of a stem-cell derived human neural tube"
Eyal Karbrun,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Physics, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of California Santa Barbara,
11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Structural Computing: Leveraging Mechanics for Information Processing
Phil R. Buskohl,
Research Mechanical Engineer,
Functional Materials Division,
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Learning Under Requirements
Luiz Chamon,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"How Runx Transcription Factors Instruct Early Thymic T-cell Development"
Boyoung Shin,
(Rothenburg group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Impact of Biophysical Constraints on the Mutational Tolerance of Integral Membrane Proteins
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Design & Engineering of Macromolecules for Energy and Environmental Sciences
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar - Tzahi Cohen-Karni
Online and In-Person Event
Bioelectronics with nanocarbons – forming I/O with tissue and cells
Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Associate Professor,
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Aqueous Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry and Airborne Disease
Alan Gu,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
SLE, energy duality, and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles
Yilin Wang,
MSRI, Berkeley,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Does bottom boundary layer turbulence drive deep-ocean upwelling? First insights from the BLT Recipes experiment
Alberto Naveira Garabato,
Professor of Physical Oceanography,
University of Southampton,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The S-matrix bootstrap in two and four dimensions: primal and dual problem
Martin Kruczenski,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Dani Kiyasseh,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Singlet Fission in Bipentacene Coordination Complexes
Ryan Ribson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Stable Self-organization Arises for Schooling Swimmers Through Hydrodynamic Interactions
Melike Kurt,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Southampton, United Kingdom,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Motion and monodromy
Nalini Joshi,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
The University of Sydney,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Developmental Biology Seminar
1. "Reconstructing embryos with stem cells - the principles of self-organization" 2. "Precursor-Progeny Relationships: Building Maps and Organoids"
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,
Caltech,
Nils Lindstrom,
USC,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Was Einstein Right?
- Public Event
Sunday, April 10th, 2022
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Monday, April 11th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Algebraic twists of automorphic L-functions
Philippe Michel,
EPFL,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Autonomous Mission-Driven Robots in Extreme Environments"
Amanda Bouman,
Graduate Student,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Dynamics of Predictions and Decision-Making
Tijana Zrnic,
PhD candidate,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Dynamics of Predictions and Decision-Making
Tijana Zrnic,
PhD. candidate,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The axion-photon coupling and grand unified theories
Mario Reig,
Oxford University,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
12:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Observational Clues about Giant Planet Formation: from Eccentricities to Confounding Starspots
Sarah Blunt,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bilateral trade under no subsidies and stochastic mechanisms; Multi-trader pairwise exchange with minimal subsidies
Jernej Copic,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Consciousness Seminar April 2022 (Virtual)
"The Role of Top-Down Feedback in Conscious Perception"
Veith Weilnhammer,
Charité University Medicine Berlin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic Quaternary and Tetrasubstituted Stereogenic Centers
Tyler Fulton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What to Know About GWs for Those in the Know
Rana Adhikari,
Professor of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Opening the blackbox of ‘policy engagement': things every scientist should know about how academic research is used within environmental policymaking
Roxana Shafiee,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Does Harold Zurcher Have Time Separable Preferences?
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: The Rhetoric of Chance in Times of Pandemic
Online and In-Person Event
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
Art in Data: From Self-Tracking to Mass Migration
Stephen Cartwright,
Artist,
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Shuman Xia,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Continental carbonate systems in extreme environments of South America - assessment of organic and inorganic controls on mineral precipitation
Leonardo Fadel Cury,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geology,
Federal University of Paraná,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Matthew P.A. Fisher,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 15th, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT
Scott Collier,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Tuning Active Sites in Catalytic Nanomaterials through Collodial Synthesis
Christina W. Li,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Deterministic Generation of 2D Photonic Cluster States by a Single Quantum Emitter
Vinicius Ferreira,
Graduate Student, Painter Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics-Inspired Coarsening for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows
Perry Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 16th, 2022
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2022
9:30am
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10:30am
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Thulium Doped Garnets for Quantum Repeaters and Optical Quantum Memory
Jake Davidson,
QuTech, Delft University of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Coupling Reactions
Travis DeLano,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Surprising and Dark Implications of a Supersymmetric Gravity Sector
Clifford Burgess,
Perimeter Institute and McMaster University,
12:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
A multiplicity formula of K-types
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Shaping Extrasolar Systems with Giant Planets
Laetitia Rodet,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
12:00pm
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Machine Learning & Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Foundations of Induction
Marcus Hutter,
Honorary Professor,
Research School of Computer Science,
Australian National University,