Institute Calendar
November 2023
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Scale invariance and rate of nuclear reactions
Subham Chowdhury,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Robust Estimation of Risk Preferences
Aldo Lucia,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been postponed.
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The First Glimpse of the First Galaxies with JWST
Rohan Naidu,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
This Seminar has been POSTPONED
Michael Wara,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and exploration of new topological magnetic texture in frustrated magnets
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Special Seminar
Can computers be trained as porous media experts?
Peyman Mostaghimi,
Professor of Minerals and Energy Resources,
Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering,
University of New South Wales,
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
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EE Devices Seminar - Judith Su
Ultra-sensitive, selective, and label-free optical sensing for fundamental science, environmental monitoring, and translational medicine
Judith Su,
Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering and Optical Sciences,
University of Arizona,
3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Hodge theory, modular forms, counting curves on surfaces, and maybe some other stuff
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics
Julia Gonski,
SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Teacher Salaries and Racial Inequality in Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century South
Elizabeth Cascio,
Professor of History,
Dartmouth College,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, November 3rd, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Large-scale aggregation of distributed energy resources: dynamic network access and competitive aggregations
Cong Chen,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Electrical Engineering,
Cornell University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Probing phonon transport across vacuum and across solid-state spins
Zhujing Xu,
postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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EAS Trailblazers Symposium
Model Reduction for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems using State and Randomized Gradient Data
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories
Prahar Mitra,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Physics and Engineering of Extremely Moisture-Capturing Hydrogels for Freshwater Production and Energy Storage
Carlos D. Diaz-Marin,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MedE: EAS Trailblazers Symposium-Anqi Zhang
Minimally invasive neuroelectronics
Anqi Zhang, Ph.D.,
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow,
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Privacy Preserving Signal
Kai Hao Yang,
Assistant Professor,
School of Management,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers
Yiran Zhang,
Nadj-Perge group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Heavy element nucleosynthesis & energetic neutrinos from highly magnetized outflows
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
A Hierarchical Perspective on Robotic Control
Noel Csomay-Shanklin,
Graduate Student,
Control and Dynamical Systems Computational and Mathematical Sciences Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) and a Policy Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Space Resource Utilization
Maya Nasr,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
"Engineering-Based Interventions for Airborne Disease Transmission"
Linsey C. Marr,
Charles P. Lunsford Professor and University Distinguished Professor,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Splitting spheres in S^4
Maggie Miller,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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11/4
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Saturday, November 4th, 2023
8:00pm
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Sunday, November 5th, 2023
3:00pm
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
8:45am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Job Market Seminar
Dynamic Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders: Evidence from the Online Advertising Market
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geomorphic and sedimentological controls on the global sulfur cycle
Jordon D. Hemingway,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
ETH Zürich Geological Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Closing the Loop in ML: Theory & Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Decision Systems
Lillian J. Ratliff,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter
Prineha Narang,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion
Renske Van der Veen,
Associate Professor and Department Head at Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy Berlin,
Department of Chemistry,
Helmholtz Centre Berlin and the Technical University Berlin.,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Hidden water deep in the interiors of exoplanets
Caroline Dorn,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Spending Constraints: Why City Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods
Julia Payson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
UCLA,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
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10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Poincaré generators of spinning binary in the post-Minkowskian approach
Sangmin Lee,
Seoul National University,
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Cognitive Hierarchies in Multi-Stage Games of Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiment
Po-Hsuan Lin,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Higher Information: The untold topological secrets of measures and states
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Discovery and characterization of a new pathway for protein insertion into the human outer mitochondrial membrane
Taylor Stevens,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Searching for Signposts of Failed White Dwarf Supernovae
JJ Hermes,
Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? The Coastal Barrier Resources Act as a Natural Experiment
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Ways to See Real-Space Topological Textures and Their Order Parameters at the Atomic Scale
Yu-Tsun Shao,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry
Phillip Milner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Knowing Your Lemon Before You Dump It" joint work with Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Legal Best Practices: Forming and Funding Your Startup
Rick Friedman,
CEO,
Novus GC,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wind Farm Modeling and Control
Dennice F. Gayme,
Professor and Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deciphering the Function of the HinT Protein through Functional Proteomics"
Dr. Yanping Qiu,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chou Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations
Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr,
UC Riverside,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Pizza Seminar
Special AI & Misinformation Seminar: " IQ Journalism: Predicting the quality of news stories based on explainable AI"
Catherine Sotirakou,
- Internal Event
2:30pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Biological Systems
Michael Rosen,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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CSSPP/HPS Seminar
What's So Special about Genetic Information, Anyway?
Ozan Gurcan,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The mechanics of glacier ice from viscous flow to iceberg calving
Brent Minchew,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales
Mina Arvanitaki,
Perimeter Institute,
5:00pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
Antony Speranza,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Stable Matching as Transportation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
Dominik Wild,
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
1:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Catalogs and populations with ground-based and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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