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Fall 2020-2021

Thursday, October 22nd, 2020

12:00pm – 12:50pm

Preparing for Virtual Interviews

Online Event

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event

SARS-CoV-2 Disrupts Splicing, Translation, and Protein Trafficking to Suppress Host Defenses

Abhik Banerjee (Guttman Group), Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Caltech Associates: The Science of the Big One

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Intratumoral Collagen-retained Immunotherapy

Online Event

Noor Momin, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online Event

Search for Dark Matter with Atomic Precision Spectroscopy

Vladan Vuletić, MIT,

Friday, October 23rd, 2020

9:00am – 12:00pm

Creating an Open Access Digital Book using Bookdown

Online Event

10:30am – 10:45am

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event

The holographic map as a conditional expectation

Tom Faulkner, UIUC,

11:00am – 12:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event

Pairing in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene: role of phonon and plasmon umklapp

Cyprian Lewandowski, Moore Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online Event

Heterogenized Molecular Catalyst Materials for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Conversion

Hailiang Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Energy Science Institute, Yale University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Women in Power: Leadership, Politics, & the Current State of the Union

Online Event

1:00pm – 2:00pm

CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Online Event

Lift & Learn: a scientific machine learning framework for learning low-dimensional models for nonlinear PDEs

Elizabeth Qian, Von Karman Instructor, Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event

Identification of Structural Damage, Ground Motion Response, and the Benefits of Dense Seismic Instrumentation

Filippos Filippitzis, PhD Graduate Student, Civil Engineering, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online Event

The Impact of Cosmic Rays on Thermal Instability in the Circumgalactic Medium

Iryna Butsky, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington,

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Online Event

Direct simulation of bubbles, droplets, and energy dissipation in breaking ocean waves

Wouter Mostert, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event

Several detection results of Khovanov homology on links

Boyu Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Math Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event

The Plateau problem and symmetries of Riemann surfaces

Nathaniel Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Latinx Heritage Month: An Evening of Poetry with Angelina Saenz

Saturday, October 24th, 2020

5:00pm – 6:00pm

"Explore Caltech" Talks

Online Event

Robert C. Hurt, Graduate Student, Biology and Biological Engineering,

Mackenzie Strehle, Graduate Student, Biology and Biological Engineering,

Public Event

Monday, October 26th, 2020

10:30am – 10:45am

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Online Event

Cadence and Computational Software: Electronic Design Automation and Machine Learning

Elias Fallon, Cadence,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Pop-In group to hang out and discuss life while working remotely

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event

Strategic Party Resource Allocation in US Congressional Elections

Shunto Kobayashi, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar

Online Event

On the locally analytic vectors of the completed cohomology of modular curves

Lue Pan, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event

Sebastian Lee, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event

Topological Tools for Understanding Complex Systems

Michelle Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event

UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem

Seth Koren, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event

Hybrid Metal-Organic Interfaces for a Selective Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

Alonso Rosas, Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Astronomy on Tap

Online Event

"New Horizons and Pluto: An Adventure to the Outer Solar System" and "Fast Radio Bursts: A Mystery Solved?"

Briley Lewis, PhD Candidate, Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA,

Chris Bochenek, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Public Event

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event

Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric and Astrochemical Radical Reactions

Joseph Messinger, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

10:30am – 10:45am

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Online Event

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event

Probing the dynamics of planet and satellite formation using isotopes

Francis Nimmo, Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz,

Internal Event

4:00pm – 4:50pm

Preparing for Virtual Interviews

Online Event

6:45pm – 8:15pm

Caltech Debate Toastmasters Club OPEN HOUSE

Online Event

Public Event

Wednesday, October 28th, 2020

8:00am – 11/3 11:59pm

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

9:00am – 10:00am

Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event

The long and short of stochastic stability in multi-agent systems

Jeff Shamma, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,

10:00am – 11:00am

TCS+ Talk

Online Event

Adversarially Robust Learnability: Characterization and Reductions

Omar Montasser, Graduate Student, TTIC,

10:30am – 10:45am

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event

Quantum simulation and quantum computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays

Harry Levine, Graduate Student, Lukin Group, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event

Combining knowledge and data driven methods for solving inverse imaging problems - getting the best from both worlds

Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb, Professor of Applied Mathematics and head of the Cambridge Image Analysis (CIA) group, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

From recursively presented metric spaces to recursive Polish spaces

Tyler Arant, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Online Event

Some Simple Concepts & Their Consequences in Covalent Mechanochemistry

Stephen Craig, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Duke University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event

Signaling with Private Monitoring

Gonzalo Cisternas, Class of 1954 Career Development Associate Professor, Applied Economics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management.,

1:30pm – 2:30pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event

Integrable Kondo line defect, 4D Chern Simons, and ODE/IM correspondence

Jingxiang Wu, Perimeter Institute,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Weekly SURF Drop-in Sessions for Undergrads

Online Event

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Online Event

Beilinson-Drinfeld Grassmannians and factorization structures

Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event

Feedback and Feeding: The Circumgalactic Medium of Star-Forming Galaxies during Cosmic Noon

Gwen Rudie, Carnegie Observatories,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event

Is Global Warming Inhibiting an Incipient Ice Age?

George Philander, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Orbital Degeneracy Lifting: Broken Local Symmetries and their Orderings in Interesting Electronic Materials

Simon Billinge, Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory,

7:00pm – 8:00pm

Alpine Club Talk

Online Event

Alpine Adventures in the Time of Corona

William Nicolas, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech,

Public Event

7:00pm – 8:30pm

History of Women's Suffrage & Her Flag Event

7:00pm – 9:00pm

History of Women's Suffrage & the "Her Flag" Project

Online Event

Public Event

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

9:00am – 9:55am

Analysis Seminar

Online Event

Mode coupling and late-time asymptotics of linear waves on rotating black holes

Dejan Gajic, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge,

10:30am – 10:45am

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event

Simulation and Modeling of High-Speed Disperse Two-Phase Flows

Jesse Capecelatro, Assistant Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Online Event

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of biological membranes

Kranthi Mandadapu, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Division of Biology and Bioengineering Virtual Speaker Series: Science Communication Careers

Online Event

Venture Capitalism as a Career

Dean Haritos,

Richard Weil,

Mike Giardello,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

MIT Forum for Equity: On Congressman John Lewis

Online Event

Internal Event

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Worklife Wellness Break - Chair Yoga

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online Event

Caltech, quantum teleportation, and GKP qubits

Akira Furusawa, University of Tokyo,

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Google Cloud Platform for Research

Online Event

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