Institute Calendar
December 2023
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
Ongoing
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12/1
11:59pm
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Friday, December 1st, 2023
8:00am
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12/2
5:00pm
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9:30am
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5:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Massive gravity is not positive
Giulia Isabella,
UCLA,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
W state is not the unique ground state of any local Hamiltonian
Lei Gioia,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CaJAGWR Seminar
High-Precision Waveforms with the Small-Mass-Ratio Limit
Scott A. Hughes,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
High-precision waveforms with the small-mass-ratio limit
Scott Hughes,
Professor of Physics,
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Function, structure and inheritance of the simplest known mitochondria of the unicellular intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia.
Pavel Dolezal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Parasitology,
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Additive Manufacturing for High-Performance Space and Energy Applications
Sadaf Sobhani,
Assistant Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Seeing is believing: Leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) for uncertainty-aware robot perception
Preston Culbertson,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Optimal regularity for minimizers of the prescribed mean curvature functional over isotopies
Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
8:00am
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12/5
11:59pm
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, December 4th, 2023
9:00am
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12/22
5:30pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Special AMO Seminar
Dipole-dipole interactions between individual molecules in an optical tweezer array
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions
Shabnam Hematian,
Assistant Professor and Bernard-Glickman Dean's Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Plants, Planet, and People: Understanding and Leveraging Plant-Water Interactions for a Changing World
Jeannie Wilkening,
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations
Kevin McFarland,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation
Margarita Davydova,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
"Energy Beaming" and "Space Dust"
Michael Kelzenberg,
Senior Research Scientist,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Brenda Rubenstein,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A window into sub-Neptune interiors: coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water atmospheres
William Misener,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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12/15
5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab
Alexander Kish,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CS Seminar
Learning from Exams
Brian Railing,
Associate Teaching Professor,
Computer Science Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Peter Buisseret,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Irregular conformal blocks and braiding properties
Xia Gu,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
8:00am
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12/8
11:59pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation Chemistry in the Era of ALMA+JWST
Karin I. Öberg,
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes
James Stone,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can studying microbial physiology help us predict the fate of soil carbon?
Abraham (Avi) Flamholz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Machine Learning Strategies for Secondary Sphere Modification in Organocatalysis
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Einstein on Singularities: Analysis versus Geometry
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
On the Complexity of Neural Network Representations
Kordag Mehmet Kilic,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Spectroscopic mechanistic elucidation enables quantitative kinetic analysis as a blueprint for data-driven reaction optimization
Jaron Tong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Friday, December 8th, 2023
All Day
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
The Evolution of Reward Systems in the Mammalian Brain
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Data-driven compression of electron-phonon interactions
Yao Luo,
Bernardi Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
bhpwave: A perturbative waveform model for binaries with spinning massive black holes
Zach Nasipak,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
With great precision comes great challenges: Gravitational Wave Observations of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Lorenzo Speri,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design and Implementation of a Microparticle Delivery Device for the Cornea
Dennis Ko,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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