Institute Calendar
Fall 2020-2021
Friday, November 20th, 2020
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
From Farm to Family: Agriculture, Race, and the Origins of Eugenics in Southern California
Narsiso Martinez,
Independent Artist,
Gabriel Rosenberg,
Duke University,
Yvette Saavedra,
University of Oregon,
Tiago Saraiva,
Drexel University,
Sarah Seekatz,
San Joaquin Delta College,
12:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Multiscale Computation and Parameter Learning for Kernels from PDEs: Two Provable Examples
Yifan Chen,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics: Fundamentals and Applications
Online Event
Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics: Fundamentals and Applications
Carlos Hidrovo,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,
Northeastern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Pre-Calabi-Yau categories and dualizability in 2d
Alex Takeda,
IHES,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and the BGG category
Frid Fu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Saturday, November 21st, 2020
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
12:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
Argo.ai: Understanding and Predicting Trajectories (for Autonomous Driving)
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
The OxyContin Reformulation Revisited: New Evidence from Improved Definitions of Markets and Substitutes
Shiyu Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Renormalizable QFT for gravity
John Donoghue,
UMass Amherst,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"Water on the Sunlit Moon" and "How Merging Stellar Corpses Connect to the Calcium in Your Bones"
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
The Volatile Composition of Comets
Sara Faggi,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Solar System Division,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Safe Learning in Robotics
Claire Tomlin,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California Berkley,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams
Sumegha Garg,
Postdoc,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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Thursday, November 26th, 2020
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11/27
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11/27
4:00pm
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Sunday, November 29th, 2020
3:00pm
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Towards a heterogeneous computing farm for the CMS High Level Trigger
Andrea Bocci,
CERN,
10:30am
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10:45am
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
How We Replaced Our Entire Tech Stack Without Our Users Knowing
Caelean Barnes,
Quaestor,
Evan Doyle,
Quaestor,
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Tug of War: Dynamic Outbidding Between Terrorist Groups
Michael Gibilisco,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
"Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization"
Ellen Novoseller,
Graduate Student,
Control & Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
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10:45am
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Simulation and Optimization in Near-Term Quantum Computers
Leo Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Finite temperature simulations of strongly correlated systems
Chong Sun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Proving Positive Lyapunov Exponents: Beyond Independence
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Atmospheric Mixing in Cool Exoplanet Analogs
Brittany Miles,
Graduate Reserach Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Targeting Neural Circuits to Address Pain and Addiction "
Xiaoke Chen,
Associate Professor,
Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar
Online Event
Transitioning to a Future Low Carbon Energy System: Key Scientific and Technological Challenges
Peter F. Green,
Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology and Chief Research Officer,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Contraction Analysis in Optimization, Learning, and Adaptive Prediction and Control
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences / Brain and Cognitive Sciences / Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,