Institute Calendar
December 2022
Ongoing
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12/19
5:00pm
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12/2
11:59pm
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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Simulating solids like fluids: A fully Eulerian approach to fluid-structure interaction
Ken Kamrin,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering Viral Vectors for Acoustically Targeted Gene Delivery in Brain"
Hongyi (Richard) Li,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Securities Ratings and Information Provision
Eric Hilt,
Professor of Economics,
Wellesley College,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Lozenge tilings via the dynamic loop equation
Vadim Gorin,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Advances in Plant Molecular Foundries
Prof. Karen McDonald,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Landscapes of Glass
Douglas J. Jerolmack,
Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor X. Edward Guo
Bone Bioengineering: Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Beyond
X. Edward Guo, Chair and Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine),
Bone Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum matter, clocks, and fundamental physics
Jun Ye,
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Diophantine Equations in Two Variables and the Arithmetic Shapes of Solutions
Minhyong Kim,
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
University of Edinburgh,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
On delocalization of planar integer-valued height functions and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition of two-component spin models in two dimensions
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Model-Based Lower-Limb Powered Prosthesis Control: Developing and Realizing Nonlinear Subsystem Control Methods for Generalizable Prosthesis Control
Rachel Gehlhar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational Path Integral for 1/4 BPS N = 4 black holes from Siegel Modular Forms
Abhiram Kidambi,
IPMU, University of Tokyo,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Isabel M. Klein,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Plurality Veto: A Simple Voting Rule Achieving Optimal Metric Distortion
Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya,
Research Assistant,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Holistic Design in High-Speed Silicon Photonics and Low-Power Electronics Platforms
Arian Hashemi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum gas of molecules
Jun Ye,
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Learning Homogenization for Elliptic Operators with Discontinuous Parameters
4:00pm
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12/7
5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Tuning the Selectivity of Fe-based Catalysis for N2 Fixation in Protic Media Using Proton Responsive Ligand."
Lucie Nurdin,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Exotic phenomena in 4-dimensional topology
Lisa Piccirillo,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
8:00am
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12/6
11:59pm
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Probing dark matter-nucleon interactions with Sub-GeV dark matter direct detection strategie
Kim Berghaus,
SUNY Stony Brook,
,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Electronic Structures and Reactivity of Metal Complexes
Alexandra T. Barth,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Dimer model fluctuations via t-embeddings
Matthew Nicoletti,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
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 and In-Person Event
How do stars shape interstellar gas? cosmic rays -- supernova -- UV radiation
Shmuel Bialy,
University of Maryland, College Park,
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
8:00am
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12/8
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Probing Protoplanetary Disk Evolution Using Multi-Wavelengths Observations
Marion Villenave,
NASA Postdoc,
Exoplanet Discovery and Science,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The muon g-2 and lattice QCD hadronic vacuum polarization may point to new, long-lived neutral hadrons
Glennys Farrar,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Instability and non-uniqueness in fluid dynamics
Elia Brué,
Mathematics,
IAS,
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
8:00am
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12/9
11:59pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Towards fast hardware decoding: parallel window decoding and Riverlane's progress
Earl Campbell,
Riverlane & University of Sheffield,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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â–º CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Marcos Nazareth Gallo,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What's in a Shadow? Past, Present, and Future of Black Hole Imaging
Heino Falcke,
Professor of Astroparticle Physics & Radio Astronomy,
Radboud University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Soil moisture controls on weather: new insights from models and observations
Kaighin A. McColl,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Prizes and effort in contests with private information
Sumit Goel,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adventures in Applied Fluid Mechanics
Sheldon Green,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Temporal changes in membrane lipid content orchestrate cell invasion during development"
Michael Piacentino,
Bronner Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Langlands correspondence for p-adic classical groups via isomorphisms of Hecke algebras
Anne-Marie Aubert,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche,
Sorbonne Université,
Friday, December 9th, 2022
10:00am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Catalysed Vacuum Decay
Michael Nee,
University of Oxford,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Planetary migration and engulfment on the post-main-sequence
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, December 10th, 2022
8:00am
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Monday, December 12th, 2022
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Ultralight dark matter searches with atom multi-gradiometry
Leonardo Badurina,
Kings College,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Frontier in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Series
The Chemistry of Quantum Materials
Prof. Leslie M. Schoop,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
HALPHA: an HST search for accreting protoplanets in transition disk gaps
Yifan Zhou,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Title: Quasi-periodic driving: a tool in the quantum mechanic's toolbox
Anushya Chandran,
Boston University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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MedE Ph.D. Thesis Defense, Lealia Xiong
Online and In-Person Event
Thesis title: Expanding the toolbox for thermal control of E. coli: Cold-activated transcription with applications in temperature self-regulation
Lealia Xiong,
Medical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The Role of Entanglement for Function Estimation with Quantum Sensor Networks
Jacob Bringewatt,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Studies on Off-Nominal Rotor Aerodynamics for eVTOL Aircraft
Ellande Tang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
"Random-matrix theory of the measurement-induced phase transition in all-to-all interacting Floquet quantum circuits"
Aleksei Khindanov,
University of California Santa Barbara,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Optimal receptivity and the generalization of the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) Equations to complex high-speed boundary layers and jets
Omar Kamal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, December 16th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Large N Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Quantum Memory
Gong Cheng,
University of Maryland,
Monday, December 19th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Characteristic Functions for Cosmological Cross-Correlations
Patrick Breysse,
NYU Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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