Institute Calendar
April 2022
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cyclic Polyacetylene, August Kekulé, and the Catalyst that Connects Them After 150 Years
Adam Steven Veige,
University Research Foundation Professor; Director, Center for Catalysis,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Florida,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Connections Between Two Kernel Regression Methods
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Binary evolution, gravitational-wave mergers and explosive transients in multiple-populations gas-enriched globular-clusters
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Perspectives on Contraction Theory and Neural Networks
Francesco Bullo,
Professor,
Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, April 24th, 2022
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, April 25th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Palladium-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclizations in Natural Product Synthesis: Synthetic Studies of Noraugustamine and Falcatin A
Karli Holman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Infinitely many primes of basic reduction for abelian varieties
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Gas Flows in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Noon with Integral Field Spectroscopy
Andrey Vayner,
Johns Hopkins University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
9:00am
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11:00am
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New Directions in Biology and Biological Engineering Symposium
Caroline Albertin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Marine Biological Laboratory,
Shawn Davidson,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Princeton University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Fragment Coupling Approach to C19 and C20 Diterpenoid Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (–)-Talatisamine, (–)-Liljestrandisine and (–)-Liljestrandinine
Nicholas Fastuca,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Transport and microrheology of active colloids
Zhiwei Peng,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled Chemical Physics Seminar
Amish Patel,
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood
Lisa Mendelman,
Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities,
Menlo College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What History Can Tell Us About How to Assess the State of Voting Rights and How to Amend the Voting Rights Act
J. Morgan Kousser,
Professor of History and Social Science, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:28pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Exotic Atmospheres of Ultrahot Jupiters & Mars Methane Sources in Northwestern Gale Crater Inferred From Back Trajectory Modeling
Yangcheng Luo,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
Aaron Bello Arufe,
California Instittue of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
8:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
*Postponed* New Date 5/20/22 - 4pm
Roman Vershynin,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Fifty-Five Years of Discoveries at the Galactic Center in the Infrared with Gerry Neugebauer and Many Others
Eric Becklin,
Professor Emeritus UCLA Physics and Astronomy/SOFIA Science Advisor, USRA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From plants to planets: land surface effects on global climate
Marysa Lague,
University of Saskatchewan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Ultrathin topological bismuth crystals grown inside an atomically-flat van der Waals mold
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Photodynamics simulations explain photochemical reactivity and selectivities towards strained molecules
Steven Lopez,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Northwestern University,
6:15pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 28th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Robert C. Viesca,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Tufts University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Path space Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for molecular simulation
Jorge Rosa,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
The Shrinkage Adjusted Sharpe Ratio: An Improved Method for Mutual Fund Selection
Richard Roll,
Linde Institute Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Isotopic exchange equilibria in small molecules with Path Integral methods
Roman Korol,
Graduate Student,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Broken Symmetry Clues for Fundamental Physics
Matthew Reece,
Harvard University,
6:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 29th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the quantum information content of a Hawking pair
Herman Verlinde,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Majorana modes in iron-based superconducting vortex
Lingyuan Kong,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Organisms in the University
Bradley Bolman,
Historian of Science,
University of Chicago,
Victoria Lee,
History Assistant Professor,
Ohio University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higgs, Coulomb, and Hall-Littlewood
Kihong Lee,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Dark matter core formation, ultra-diffuse galaxies, and MOND
Jonathan Freundlich,
Staff Researcher,
Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg,
Université de Strasbourg,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Droplet-laden isotropic turbulence: from DNS to MANN-LES
Antonino Ferrante,
Associate Professor,
William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Saturday, April 30th, 2022
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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