Institute Calendar
March 2023
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Oxidation and Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions and Application to Natural Product Synthesis
Sara Dibrell,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
9:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Dynamics of Time-Varying and Nonlinear Phononic Lattices
Brian Kim,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Small Statistics No More: A Suite of Dwarf Galaxy Simulations to Interpret Observations
Alyson Brooks,
Associate Professor,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A new theory for heat extremes in a changing climate
Yi Zhang,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Thermochemical and Thermophysical Properties of Refractory Materials above 3000 ˚C
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Selective strategies for phosphoranyl radical fragmentation for chemical synthesis
Valerie Schmidt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Cursed Sequential Equilibrium
Thomas R. Palfrey, III,
Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Enigma of the Heart
Online and In-Person Event
Morteza (Mory) Gharib (PhD '83),
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Director and Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair of the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST); Director of GALCIT,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Liquid Breakup at Supercritical Conditions: Toward Understanding Mixing and Combustion at Extreme Conditions
Dorrin Jarrahbashi,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Microbial-Enrichment Method Enables High-Throughput Metagenomic Characterization from Host-Rich Samples"
Natalie J. Wu-Woods,
Graduate Student,
Ismagilov Group,
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Building with fluids: a lazy approach to fabrication
Prof. Pierre-Thomas Brun,
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Prebiotic Chemistry in Hydrothermal Systems on Early Earth and Ocean Worlds
Laurie Barge,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Dr. Andy Tay
Mechano-enhancement of wound regeneration and nanomedicine delivery
Andy Tay, Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Black holes in binaries
Ilya Mandel,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Back to The Problem of Space
Joshua T. Eisenthal,
Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Twisting 6d (2,0) SCFTs and LSTs
Kimyeong Lee,
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS),
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Does gravity constrain computation?
Alex May,
Stanford University,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Excited State Properties of Lead Halide Perovskites: Insights for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics
Jeffrey DuBose,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Manthiram Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 4th, 2023
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Monday, March 6th, 2023
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CANCELLED - RSI Research Seminar
The California Climate Information System (CalCIS)
Dr. Christine Lee,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
1:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
Scientific Virtue: Reflections on "Good" Science and "Good" Scientists
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Dithiolene Radicals: A Counterintuitive Trek Through Main Group Chemistry"
Gregory H. Robinson,
FRSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistryp,
The University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
The Galaxy Evolution in the Large-scale Structure
Rieko Momose,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Rigorous Analysis and Numerical Implementation of Nudging Data Assimilation Algorithms
Edriss S. Titi,
Owen Professor & Distinguished Professor,
Mathematics Department,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A chiral SU(5) theory with three generations
Daniel Stolarski,
Carleton University,
4:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Universal properties in symplectic geometry
Hiro Lee Tanaka,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas State University,
4:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
The meaning of synthetic spaces
Mike Shulman,
Department of Mathematics,
University of San Diego,
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
On co-dimension one stability of the soliton for the 1D focusing cubic Klein-Gordon equation
3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Disproving the Deift conjecture: the loss of almost periodicity
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Tailoring Plasmonic Nanogap Chemistry for Following Chemical Reactions in Real Time Regina Ragan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Detecting and Characterizing Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
Emily Gilbert,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
JPL,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Screening with Persuasion
Stephen Morris,
Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
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Astronomy Colloquium
Mapping the Cosmic Web with IGM Tomography
Andrew Newman,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Advances in understanding Antarctic sea ice
Lettie Roach,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians
Frederico Finan,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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Thursday, March 9th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Materials Mechanics for Health and Sustainability
Xuanhe Zhao,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Scaling up reusable DNA strand-displacement circuits using heat as a universal energy source"
Tianqi Song,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Qian Group,
12:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - George C. Valley, Aerospace
Reservoir computing using laser speckle in multimode waveguides
George C. Valley,
The Aerospace Corporation,
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Geology Club Seminar
Diagenetic overprints associated with the clay-sulfate transition in Gale crater, Mars & The Behavior of Fluorine in Granitic Melts
Tina Seeger,
Graduate student,
Geology,
Caltech,
Oliver Wilner,
Graduate student,
Geology,
Caltech,
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Ineffective Field Theory
Lisa Randall,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
An Isomorphism Theorem for Anharmonic Fields and Scaling Limits
Jean-Dominique Deuschel,
Technical University Berlin,
6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Chemical distances for long-range percolation
Johannes Bäumler,
Technical University of Munich,
7:00pm
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Friday, March 10th, 2023
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Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Personalized Medicine
Online Event
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Line Defects in CFTs: from Spin Impurities to Wilson Lines
Avia Raviv-Moshe,
SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Recommending to Strategic Users: Avoiding the Perils of Strategy-Oblivious Recommendation Algorithms
Chara Podimata,
FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley and The Simons Institute,
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Filament Based Plasma
Oliver Gross,
Doctoral Student in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Technische Universität Berlin,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Large genus asymptotics in flat surfaces
Amol Aggarwal,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
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Monday, March 13th, 2023
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Recent Advances in the Reductive Chemistry of Rare-Earth and Actinide Metals
William J. Evans,
UC Irvine Distinguished Professor; Director, Eddleman Quantum Institute,
Department of Chemistryp,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Where the wheels fall off: stellar rotation period distributions in the "worst case" scenarios
Mark Popinchalk,
CUNY/AMNH,
7:30pm
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
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