Institute Calendar
September 2023
Friday, September 1st, 2023
4:00pm
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Chemistry Summer Seminar
Ryan Hadt,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, September 4th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Social Science Thesis Defense
Unexpected Partisan Unity Among Legislators and their Leaders Using New Latent Variable Estimation Techniques and Frameworks
Danny Ebanks,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar: Developing A Tandem Photoelectrochemical/Photothermal System for CO2 Reduction to Liquid Fuels
Developing A Tandem Photoelectrochemical/Photothermal System for CO2 Reduction to Liquid Fuels
- Public Event
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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12:00pm
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, September 8th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Near-Optimal Policies for Dynamic Matching
Süleyman Kerimov,
Assistant Professor of Operations Management,
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business,
Rice University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry Summer Seminar
Gözde Demirer,
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Monday, September 11th, 2023
8:45am
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12:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Using functional genomics to characterize biogenesis and quality control pathways in the mammalian ER
Katharine Page,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
10:00am
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, September 14th, 2023
8:00am
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9/15
5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Workshop
Conspiratorial Thinking & Origins, Spread, and Consequences
8:00am
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9/16
5:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, September 15th, 2023
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Going beyond the Standard Model with linear response theory
Aman Singal,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Direct and Remote Ring Construction via Palladium(0)-Catalyzed C(sp3)–H Activation
Saturday, September 16th, 2023
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, September 17th, 2023
10:00am
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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9/24
11:59pm
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Monday, September 18th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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9:50am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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9/22
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Strange Metal in a Superconductor to Metal Transition and Linear Magnetoresistance
Jaewon Kim,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Defense
From Venus to Mars: Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Reactive Intermediates in Planetary Atmospheres
Gregory H. Jones,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
10:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Transferability of Graph Neural Networks using Graphons
Jason Bramburger,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Concordia University- Montreal,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Organic Films at the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface in CO2 Reduction
Nicholas B. Watkins,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, September 22nd, 2023
8:30am
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4:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Ex-Ante Design of Persuasion Games
Daniel Luo,
PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Noise, complexity, and information dynamics in quantum circuits
Tommy Schuster,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry Summer Seminar
Scott Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9/24
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2023
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Monday, September 25th, 2023
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
All Day
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
11:30am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Scenario Sampling for Large Supermodular Games
Bryan Graham,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
9:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unveiling the Failure of the Effective Stress Theory in Unsaturated Materials: A multiscale journey using DEM
David Cantor,
Research Associate,
Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering,
Polytechnique Montreal,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Case Study: Accurate Battery Forecasting
Prof. Louis Piper,
Professor of Battery Innovation,
Electrochemical Materials, Energy Division WMG,
The University of Warwick,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Brett Savoie,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, September 29th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories
Tom Melia,
IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing localization properties of many-body Hamiltonians via an imaginary vector potential
Liam O'Brien,
Refael Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar
Feedback control of ultracold atomic gases
Ryan Thomas, PhD,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Australian National University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gaining Physical Insights into the Formation of Black-Hole Mergers
Monica Gallegos-Garcia,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
John J. Montgomery's Circulation Theory of Lift: A Historical Perspective on Flow for Aerodynamics
Dr. Gary Fogel,
Natural Selection, Inc.,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Lee filtration structure of torus links, adjunction inequality, and applications
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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