Institute Calendar
May 2025
Ongoing
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5/6
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation
Kaitlin Luedecke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
José Yáñez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
Reginald Anderson,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad,
Frank M. Tiller Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Miklos Racz,
Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Eric Betzig
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig,
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
TBA
Jordan Ellenberg,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Louigi Addario-Berry,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
Xiaolong Hans Han,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
4:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits.
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
3:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Chetana Sachidanandan
Disease models in zebrafish reveal hidden neurocristopathies
Chetana Sachidananda,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Murali Dharan Bashyam
New revelations from an old disease: studying somatic DNA aberrations in a poorly understood Colorectal cancer subtype unravels neomorphic gain of function and a novel mode of gene activation
Murali Dharan Bashyam,
Staff Scientist,
Molecular Oncology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Alexis Grimaud,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the Evolution of the Arctic
Justin Strauss,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Darmouth College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Network Data
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Topic to be announced
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk
Empirical Analysis of Large Games
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Topic to be announced
Jean-Francois Houde,
Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" and "Lineage motifs as developmental modules for control of cell type proportions."
Joani Viliunas,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
Martin Tran,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Illuminating Natural Intelligence with Smart Experimental Systems and Advanced Machine Learning
Hang Lu,
C. J. "Pete" Silas Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation of College of Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Adrian Tasistro-Hart,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkely,
4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH 1892-1932
Tim Guinnane,
Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Daniel Dauhajre,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Ocean Dynamics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Mark Jason Lara,
Assistant Professor,
Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences,
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,