Institute Calendar
February 2023
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
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Astronomy Colloquium
Probing Galaxy Physics with ISM Emission Lines
Shengqi Yang,
CTAC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical methods for the oxidation of pollutants in aqueous matrices
Davide Clematis,
University of Genoa,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Deciphering the Human Gut Microbiome with Chemistry
Emily P. Balskus,
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Understanding the Role of Network Structure in Controlling Complex Networks
Jorge Cortes,
Professor, Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in High Performance Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
"Programmable adiabatic demagnetization: preparing low energy states by simulated cooling"
Professor Mark Rudner,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Detectorology
Murat Kologlu,
Yale University,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE
Kearra Gopee,
Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Paul Beard
Medical photoacoustic imaging using optical ultrasound detection: from light to sound…and back
Professor Paul Beard,
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
University College London,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Axion Dark Matter and Quantum Measurement: ABRACADABRA to DMRadio
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Lindley Winslow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 3rd, 2023
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2/9
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Nonperturbative scattering amplitudes from dispersive iterations of unitarity
Alexander Zhiboedov,
CERN,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum error correction and computation with two-qubit measurements
Arpit Dua,
UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Measurement of interatomic forces that can evade detection and hydrodynamic boundary conditions on single nanoparticles
4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Konstantin Vodopyanov, CREOL, University of Central Florida
Precision midinfrared-to-THz frequency combs and their spectroscopic applications
Konstantin Vodopyanov,
21st Century Scholar Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics and Physics,
CREOL,
University of Central Florida,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Modulating electron spin relaxation times in an Fe2S2 ferredoxin
Christian (Chris) Totolu,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Circumneutral Electrosynthesis of Ferrate(IV/V/VI) Oxidants for Decentralized Water Treatment Applications
Yi (Sam) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
HEI Lecture 1: Dr. Erik M Conway
Dr. Erik M. Conway,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Historian,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Steering electrons with light fields: from ultrafast electronics to quantum sensing
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic White Dwarfs: The Galactic X-ray Sky in the SRG/eROSITA Era
Tony Rodriguez,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing the properties of the protosolar disk using cosmochemistry
Alessandro Morbidelli,
Researcher in Astronomy,
Conseil National de la Rescherche Scientifique,
Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Graphical Designs: Structure, Complexity and Applications
Rekha R. Thomas,
Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Explorations in Hilbert Space
Markus Luty,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Short- and Long-Range Chemical Interaction in Cluster and Condensed Phase
Wanlu Li,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Sharp time asymptotics for the quasi-geostrophic equation and near plane waves of reaction-diffusion models
Fazel Hadadifard,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Riverside,
3:30pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Complexity and Agnostic Biosignatures using Epsilon Machines
Stuart Bartlett,
Postdoc,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Luigi Zingales,
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes from the NTRU cryptosystem
Jonathan Conrad,
Free University, Berlin,
11:00am
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Role of AGN-Driven Winds in their Host Galaxies' Evolution
Dalya Baron,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Towards Soft Intelligent Materials: Reconfigurable Single-Material Soft Microstructures
Shucong Li,
Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Salt Fat Acid Meet: Cooking Up an Understanding of Organic Aerosol Heterogeneous Reactions, Phase, and Continuing Chemistry in Individual Particles
Andrew Ault,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Catalysis Beyond the Surface: How Bulk Ion Insertion Influences Reactivity in Electrochemical Energy Conversion"
Tyler Mefford,
Sr. Physical Science Research Scientist in Materials Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Galactic Paleontology with JWST: Finding Living Fossils in the Ancient Universe
Online and In-Person Event
Chuck Steidel (PhD '90),
Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Department of Astronomy,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Structured Instabilities in Excited Granular Materials
Christopher Boyce,
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yu Sun
Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Guy Gur-Ari,
Google Research,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin,
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
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Friday, February 10th, 2023
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Simons theories at finite N and k
Shiraz Minwalla,
TaTa Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes
3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Employing a Ferrocene-based Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mediator in Photoelectrocatalysis
Catherine Romero,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, February 11th, 2023
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9:30pm
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar
Towards the Ultimate Solver(s) for Wave Equations in the Time Domain
Thomas Hagstrom,
Professor of Mathematics,
Center for Research Computing,
Southern Methodist University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community
Dr. Edray Goins,
Professor,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Pomona College,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Thirtysomething black holes
Lieke van Son,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows
Mahyar Kargar,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Gies College of Business,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Climate controls on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover
Valier Galy,
Associate Scientist W/Tenure,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Synthesis for robotics - what can go wrong?
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3
Christina Gao,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Quantum simulators: from the Fermi Hubbard model to quantum assisted NMR inference
7:30pm
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
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Visual Culture Seminar
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand,
Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang,
Product Lead,
DALL·E,
- Public Event
2:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and gene editing
Monica Neugebauer, Ph.D.,
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,