Institute Calendar
Fall 2020-2021
Friday, October 16th, 2020
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Photophoretic levitation as a new mechanism of flight
Igor Bargatin,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM),
University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
10:00am
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5:00pm
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Sunday, October 18th, 2020
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
Colin F. Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Caltech,
Erik Snowberg,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Irreducibility of random polynomials with large degree
Emmanuel Breuillard,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
R. David Britt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Catalytic Reductive Carbene and Vinylidene Transfer Reactions
Conner M. Farley,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry (Reisman Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
8:30am
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4:30pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
The effects of planetary-scale volcanism on Io's interior structure and evolution
Dan Spencer,
Postgraduate,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Oxford University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Differentiation, Communication, and Emergence in Ant Societies"
Daniel Kronauer,
Associate Professor,
Organismal Biology and Evolution,
Rockefeller University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
A geometric trapping approach to global regularity for 2D Navier-Stokes on manifolds
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Stable big bang formation in general relativity: the complete sub-critical regime
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Tamer Başar,
Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions
Aayush Jain,
Graduate Student,
UCLA,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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"Science Will Lead Us Out of the Pandemic"
Online Event
Naveed Hussain,
Vice President & General Manager,
Boeing Research & Technology,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Simulating Finely-wrinkled Thin Shells using Wrinkle Fields
Etienne Vouga,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES),
University of Austin at Texas,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification: Theory and Application
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern Califonia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:15pm
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2:15pm
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3:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
Online Event
Introduction to nearby cycles II
Frid Fu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Genetically encoded 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) functionality for fabrication of protein-based conductive polymers
Maiko Obana,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Why Measuring Black Hole Masses is Essential for Understanding the Circumgalactic Medium
Ben Oppenheimer,
Research Associate,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Seismotectonic and climatic controls on the geologic carbon cycle
Gen Li,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals "Quantum" Materials
Alexander Balandin,
Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Nonlinear interaction of three impulsive gravitational waves for the Einstein equations
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Certified learning, or learning for verification?
Alessandro Abate,
Professor of Verification and Control,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Oxford,