Institute Calendar
May 2023
Monday, May 8th, 2023
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exploring the Hidden Hydrosphere and Biogeosphere in the World's Oldest Rocks
Barbara Sherwood Lollar,
University Professor, Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Deposits Geology,
Deaprtment of Earth Sciences,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquim
Learning Matchings, Maps, and Trajectories
Jonathan Niles-Weed,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Data Science,
New York University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Matching Effective Theories Efficiently (Matchete) and dealing with evanescent operators
Julie Pages,
UC San Diego,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Everhart Lecture Series Talk #1
Imaging the Beginning of Time from the South Pole
Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Soliman,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
9:00am
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Biology Seminar - Ali Ellebedy | Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 - 4 pm
"Dynamics of Germinal Center B Cell Responses in Humans"
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"A Pinch of Salt, a Splash of Water, and a Dash of Ions: The Recipe for Tweaking Polyelectrolyte Complexes' Glass Transition and Relaxation Time"
Jodie Lutkenhaus,
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Presidential Impact Fellow, Axalata Coating Sytems Chair,
Chemical Engineering,
Texas A&M,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A JWST MIRI Dayside Emission Spectrum of the Benchmark Hot Jupiter HD 189733b/ The Spatial Distribution of the Unidentified 2.07μm Absorption on Europa and Implications for its Origin
Julie Inglis,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Ryleigh Davis,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Attribute-based Subsidies and Market Power: an Application to Electric Vehicles
Panle Jia Barwick,
The Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser,
Assistant Director for Technology Transfer,
Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships,
Caltech,
John Peck,
Partner,
KPPB law firm.,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
8:30am
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11:00am
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Online Event
Lower bounds on the overhead of a quantum memory
Omar Fawzi,
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
11:45am
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Evolution of Stellar Rotation: Alone and Together, Inside and Out
Jamie Tayar,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What is the aerosol state in the ambient atmosphere? Or: Particle-resolved modeling to tackle structural uncertainty in aerosol models
Nicole Riemer,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Investigations of Topological and Quantum Phenomena in Epitaxial Semimetallic Thin Films
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Watson Lecture: Making Wearable Materials Smarter
Online and In-Person Event
Chiara Daraio,
G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning, Mechanics, and Metallurgy
Allison M. Beese,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
11:45am
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Photo-polymerization of Collagen using a Photobase"
Akash Dhawan,
Greer Group,
12:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Topological frequency conversion in Weyl semimetals
Frederik Nathan,
Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar Series
A thermodynamic and molecular model for ion channel and transporter dimerization in membranes
Janice Roberston,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Washington University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Power, Noise and Scaling of Earth's Surface: Disentangling Causes of Landscape Evolution
Gareth G. Roberts,
Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences,
Department of Earth, Science, and Engineering,
Imperial College London,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Dr. Samir Mitragotri
A Hitchhiker's and Backpacker's Approach to Drug Delivery
Professor Samir Mitragotri,
Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Deep Synoptic Array: the origins of fast radio bursts
Vikram Ravi,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Organizing a Kingdom
Nico Voigtlander,
Professor of Economics,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Visual Storytelling Before Comics: Theorizing the Sequential Image
Rachel Teukolsky,
Professor of English,
Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science,
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Visual Culture Seminar
A Celebration of Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Yolanda Gonzalez,
Artist,
Betty Avila,
Executive Director,
Self Help Graphics and Art,
Dr. Claudia Zapata,
UCLA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicano/a Studies,
UCLA,
Dr. J.V. Decemvirale,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Friday, May 12th, 2023
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Applied Physics Seminar
Lighting up the brain: Wafer-scale integrated photonics for implantable neural interfaces
Joyce Poon,
Max Planck Institute,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An On-Shell Approach to Self-Force on Gravitational Plane Waves
Andrea Cristofoli,
University of Edinburgh,
11:45am
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Arrovian Social Choice and Decentralizability: An Integrated Approach
Wonki Jo Cho,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Korea University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4
Xinwei Li,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Instanton Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory
Jingyuan Chen,
Tsinghua University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning
Maegan Tucker,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Interactions of shock waves and turbulence through numerical simulations
Ivan Bermejo-Moreno,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Random Tessellation Forests
Eliza O'Reilly,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Assembly of Complex Carbocyclic Scaffolds via Palladium and Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclizations."
Allison Stanko,
Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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Saturday, May 13th, 2023
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Sunday, May 14th, 2023
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