Institute Calendar
April 2024
Monday, April 1st, 2024
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RSI Research Seminar
Developing isotopic tools to study carbon flow in cow rumen upon inhibition of methane-producing microbes
Elliot Mueller,
Grad student, Resnick Scholar,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
A Dithiolene Detour: Unusual Physical Properties in Tetrathiafulvalene Tetrathiolate Complexes and Materials.
John Anderson,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Journeys beyond the Standard Model in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb and CODEX-b
Biplab Dev,
Eötvös University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Constraining D" structure and mineralogy
Christine Thomas,
Professur für Geophysik,
Institut für Geophysik University of Münster,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
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William T. Freeman/MIT
Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia
William T. Freeman,
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
EECS,
Massachusetts Institue of Technology,
1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Water on Mars 101: What we know and what we don't know
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Using Machine Learning to Deal with the Data from the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter
Matteo Cremonesi,
Carnegie Mellon University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Minimal surfaces, representation theory and random permutations
Antoine Song,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
One-Form Symmetry in Dynamical Gravity
Joonhwi Kim,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Investigating the role of local, contact scale temperature on flash heating in granite
Monica Barbery,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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Boehringer Ingelheim-Caltech Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Ben Feringa,
Nobel Laureate, Academy Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Mathmatics and Natural Sciences,
University of Groningen,
4:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins,
Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor,
University of Wisconsin, Business School,
4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Some problems and results on logarithmic potentials in prime number theory
Vesselin Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Simple Physics Behind CMB Spectral Distortions: Three Milestones in the Life of the Universe
Rashid Sunyaev,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Manufacturing
Karthish Manthiram,
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Additive Manufacturing: Technology Maturation and Synchrotron x-ray Microscopy Insights
6:30pm
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Man-made earthquakes and the energy transition
Ruben Juanes,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
MIT,
11:30am
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LA Probability Forum
On Pfaffians in spin models
Marcin Lis,
Mathematics Department,
Vienna University of Technology,
4:00pm
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► CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology 2.0: the Dawn of a New Era
Huimin Zhao,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The shape of the front of multidimensional branching Brownian motion
Yujin Kim,
Courant Institute,
NYU,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti
Molecular Engineering of Biointerfaces and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti,
Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Chemistry,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the lab
Ronald Hanson,
QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Equilibrium in functional stochastic games with mean-field interaction
Moritz Voss,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Product of Rankin-Selberg convolutions and applications
Pan Yan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Experiments on a new favorite among diamond quantum networkers: the SnV center
Ronald Hanson,
Delft University of Technology,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Black Hole Collider Physics
Enrico Herrmann,
UCLA,
11:30am
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner,
Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
1:00pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Gözde Demirer,
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering,
California Institute or Technology,
Carlos Morales-Guio,
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
William Tarpeh,
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University,
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Polya's conjecture in spectral geometry
David Sher,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
DePaul University,
4:00pm
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Saturday, April 6th, 2024
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Monday, April 8th, 2024
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Caltech Optica Student Chapter Lecture Series
Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators
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EE Devices Seminar- Alexander Lvovsky/Oxford
Optical neural networks: from computer vision to superresolution imaging
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Opto-electronic and Excited-State Dynamical Properties of Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Superstructures
Michael J. Therien,
William R. Kanan, Jr. Distinguished Prof. of Chemistry, William R. Kanan, Jr. Prof. of Chemistry, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Member of Duke Cancer Institute, Faculty Network Member of The Energy Institute,
Duke Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability,
Duke University,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar--POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2024
Smaranda C. Marinescu,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Investigating structural controls on megathrust slip behavior in and around the Guerrero gap off the Pacific Coast of Mexico using active source seismic data
Anne Bécel,
Lamont Associate Research Professor, Marine and Polar Geophysics,
Columbia Climate School,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The accelerator-driven hunt for hidden sector dark matter in the US
Cristina Mantilla Suarez,
Fermilab,
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
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