Institute Calendar
May 2022
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Categories phantoms and applications
Ludmil Katzarkov,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Miami,
3:45pm
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SPECIAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY SEMINAR SERIES
Adventures in Modern Coordination Chemistry: Research and Pedagogy
Peter T. Wolzanski,
George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Quantitative theory of the trace character
Anna Szumowicz,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Optimization for Over-Parameterized Systems and Transition to Linearity in Deep Learning
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Was There an Electroweak Phase Transition
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
T.D. Lee Institute/Shanghai Jiao Tong U., U Mass Amherst, Caltech,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
12:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan,
Ph.D. candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Uranus & Neptune Systems: Living Fossils of Planet Formation
Ned Molter,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
"UnRavelled"
Jake Broder,
Playwright, Actor, Composer,
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Yunmi Kong,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The IllustrisTNG Project
Lars Hernquist,
Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Processes driving ice-sheet change: A microstructural view
Meghana Ranganathan,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Managing the Limits of Visualization
James Elkins,
E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism,
School of the Art Institute, Chicago,
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Laurel Kroo,
P.h.D. candidate,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Laurel Kroo,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Spatial transcriptomics for profiling barcoded gene delivery vectors"
Min Jee Jang,
(Gradinaru group),
4:00pm
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CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar
Interrogating a Protein's Energy Landscape: From Protein Folding to Coronavirus
Susan Marqusee,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Cofactor Reactions under Geological Conditions Relevant to the Early Earth and Other Worlds
Roman Barco,
Assistant Research Professor,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Near-critical dimers and massive SLE
Nathanael Berestycki,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Playing with quantum toys: Atomic Newton's cradles and Archimedes' screws
Benjamin Lev,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Engineering Fidelity: Early Radio and the Trautonium in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s
Myles W. Jackson,
Ph.D., Ernst & Elisabeth Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Plateaux estimates and their implications for percolation and self-avoiding walks in high-dimensions
6:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
UnRavelled: Understanding Dementia through Art and Science
Jake Broder,
Playwright, Actor, Composer,
Friday, May 6th, 2022
10:00am
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Ethical Orientations for Collegiality, Mentoring, and Teaching
Online Event
Dr. Koritha Mitchell,
Professional development expert who centers equity and justice,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multi-way cuts from reflected entropy in random tensor networks
Tom Faulkner,
UIUC,
12:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Impacts of Surface Chemistry in Metal and Metal-Like Nanoparticle Synthesis, Structure, and Performance.
Jill Erin Millstone,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry; Department of Chemical Engineering; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computation in a hybrid array of molecules and Rydberg atoms
Chi Zhang,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hutzler Group,
1:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pandemic vs Pingdemic: Network Data Assimilation for Epidemic Tracking and Control
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Saturday, May 7th, 2022
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Sunday, May 8th, 2022
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Monday, May 9th, 2022
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation
Inclusive Teaching: Practical Strategies for the Classroom
Jasmine Bryant, PhD,
Associate Professor, Teaching,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantinuum and TKET
Mark Jackson,
Senior Quantum Evangelist,
Quantinuum,
12:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED -- Euler systems and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian surfaces
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Enhancing Entanglement Percolation
Yanxuan (Charlotte) Shao,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
New-to-nature selective C–H alkylation using engineered carbene transferases
Juner Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Normalization in the integral models of Shimura varieties of Hodge (abelian) type
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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar
Inhibitory engrams and the flexible control of cognition.
Mani Ramaswami,
Professor of Neurogenetics and Director, Trinity Institute of Neurosciences (TCIN),
Trinity College Dublin,
4:00pm
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H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
A Nonparametric Probabilistic Method for Physics-Based Data-Driven Modeling, Uncertainty Quantification, and Digital Twinning
Charbel Farhat,
Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures & Chairman of the,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC
Saptaparna Bhattacharya,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Detecting Small Signals: Near-Infrared Studies of Substellar Companions
Camillus F. Buzard,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The existence of Prandtl-Batchelor flows on disk and annulus
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Extreme Complex Mixture Analysis in Space and in the Laboratory
Michael McCarthy,
Deputy Director; Interim Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Colloquium Talk
Online Event
Learning Math is Not a Spectator Sport
Maria Andersen,
Core Adjunct Faculty, Westminster College,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
New Insights on Planet Formation from Recent TESS Discoveries
Fei Dai,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University,
6:45pm
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The number of ergodic models of an infinitary sentence
Rehana Patel,
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
2:00pm
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Humanities Open House
Spring 2022 Humanities Open House
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo's Black Holes
Maya Fishbach,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
CIERA,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Elastic and inelastic collisions, probed with transient sub-Doppler spectroscopy"
Gregory Hall,
Sr. Chemist Emeritus,
Chemistry,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Caltech's Energy Transition
John Onderdonk,
Interim Associate Vice President for Facilities,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella,
Research Group Leader,
Department of Organometallic Chemistry,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita,
Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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Watson Lecture: What Entanglement Can Tell Us About Our World
Online and In-Person Event
Scott K. Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
- Public Event
6:00pm
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Thursday, May 12th, 2022
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Investigating the Mechanism of Nitrogenase Reduction with Proton Inventory Studies
Siobhan MacArdle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Poroelastic Spherical Indentation for Material Characterization
Haiying Huang,
Associate Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Keynote
"My Journey to Democratizing Healthcare"
Vicky Demas,
CEO of Tesseract,
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Developing Improved Acoustic Reporter Genes for Non-invasive Continuous Ultrasound Imaging of Mammalian Cellular Activity in vivo"
Mengtong (Tom) Duan,
(Shapiro Group),
3:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Demetrios Christodoulides
Optical thermodynamics of nonlinear highly multimode systems
3:00pm
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MedE Ph.D. Defense, Vincenzo Costanza
Online and In-Person Event
Thermally Responsive Polymers for Wearable Calorimeters
Vincenzo Costanza,
Medical Engineering PhD Student,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
The Impact of ETF Index Inclusion on Stock Prices
John Duffy,
Professor of Economics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
GPS Outreach-Outdoors: 2 years of progress in inclusive field-based educational outreach
GPS Outreach-Outdoors,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation
Fostering a reflective mindset
Michele DiPietro, PhD,
Executive Director, Faculty Development and Recognition,
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning,
Kennesaw State University,
11:00am
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Elucidating Metalloenzyme Mechanisms Through Protein-Based Models.
Hannah S. Shafaat,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
The Ohio State University,
12:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Do current pollution monitoring networks give a false sense of security? First results from the world's largest dense sensor network
Matthew S. Johnson,
Professor, American atmospheric chemistry scientist,
Chemistry,
University of Copenhagen,
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