Institute Calendar
February 2025
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Saturday, February 1st, 2025
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
3:00pm
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Monday, February 3rd, 2025
9:00am
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Frontiers in Electrical Engineering
Jennifer Tang,
Postdoctoral Associate in IDSS and LIDS,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:10am
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LIGO Seminar
2 um fiber lasers and amplifiers for cryogenic silicon gravitational wave detectors
Georgia Bolingbroke,
- Internal Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversation about Math Teaching
Chris Towse,
Math Department,
Scripps College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Atmospheric sulfur sources and chemistry from preindustrial to present
Ursula Jongebloed,
Graduate Student,
Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Semiclassical Amplitudes and Black Holes
Donal O'Connell,
Edinburgh University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds
Danny Ruberman,
Department of Mathematics,
Brandeis University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Irreducible 4-manifolds can admit exotic diffeomorphisms
Hokuto Konno,
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Tokyo,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:30am
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"Innovative Pedagogy in Computer Science: Candidate Series"
An Intro to Linked Lists and Hopes for the Future
Ryan Tsang,
Postdoctoral Candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Unveiling Callisto's Atmosphere: Insights from Past Observations, Future Mission Perspectives, and Implications for Europa and Ganymede
Shane Carberry Mogan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Berkeley,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
8:00am
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2/11
11:59pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Phase space of JT gravity with positive cosmological constant
Elba Alonso-Monsalve,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Sigma Scattered Linear Orderings
William Chan,
Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry,
Vienna University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
On the Physics and Applications of Wind Turbulence-Induced Ground Motion on Mars and Earth
Qian Shi,
Graduate Student,
Geophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Ordered Probabilistic Choice
Yusufcan Masatlioglu,
Professor of Economics,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Extremal black hole formation as a critical phenomenon
Ryan Unger,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Probing Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars with the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project
Catherine (Kate) Grier,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How geomechanics and geophysics can help the energy transition
Jean-Philippe Avouac,
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology and Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Associate Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Using soft chemistry in oxide heterostructures: from superconducting nickelates to membrane nanomechanics
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:30am
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"Innovative Pedagogy in Computer Science: Candidate Series"
Introduction to Linked Lists; Supporting Students with Automated Feedback
Ethan Ordentlich,
Lecturer in Computer Science Department,
Computer Science,
University of Chicago, Illinois,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanics and Myocytes: Engineered Models of the Cardiac Syncytium and Myotendinous Junction
Wendy Crone,
Karen Thompson Medhi Professor Emeritus,
College of Engineering,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Doubly Periodic Aztec Diamond Dimer Model: Gaussian Free Field and Discrete Gaussians
Matthew Nicoletti,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Rebecca Wipfler,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions
Kunal Chawla,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Bethe Ansatz for PushASEP on the ring
Axel Saenz Rodriguez,
Department of Mathematics,
Oregon State University,
Friday, February 7th, 2025
9:00am
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4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pinning Defects, Fusion and Factorization
Yifan Wang,
New York University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Frustrated Quantum Devices: understanding how correlations, complex order and boundary states manifest in novel material functionalities
James Analytis,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Annular links and categorified invariants
Fraser Binns,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Debbie Tseng,
Graduate Student (Robb Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
How Global Warming Shakes the Earth : Multi-Decadal Global Microseism History and Ocean Wave Climate
Monday, February 10th, 2025
9:20am
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3:45pm
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Frontiers in Electrical Engineering 2/10
Anuran Makur,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
9:30am
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11:30am
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New Horizons in Neuroscience - Laura Seeholzer and Claire Bedbrook
New Horizons in Neuroscience - Laura Seeholzer and Claire Bedbrook
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
A Climate and Environmental Risks Impacts Assessment for Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duane Waliser,
Chief Scientist,
Earth Science and Technology Directorate,
JPL,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Bridging the Gaps between Projection of Climate and Impacts
Jane Baldwin,
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
Christiane Scherb,
UC Berkeley/LBNL,
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
Heather Lewandowski,
Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,