Institute Calendar
Fall 2021-2022
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Computational investigations of nucleic acid secondary structure thermodynamics"
Mark Fornace,
Pierce Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structural insights into lipid transport, transfer and secretion
Filippo Mancia,
Associate Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics,
Columbia University Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A 3.5 billion-year record of deep-ocean dissolved O2 from the oxidation state of iron in submarine basalts
Daniel Stolper,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Away from Equilibrium: Shining New Light on Quantum Matter
Prineha Narang,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Tech Talk: Software That Never Fails and Cannot Be Hacked
Dan O'Dowd,
CEO, Green Hills Software,
Friday, October 29th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Improved quantum error correction using soft information
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Supercritical percolation on finite transitive graphs
Philip Easo,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Fracture Mechanics of Coilable Ultra-thin Composite Shell Structures
Online Event
Armanj Hasanyan,
Postdoctoral Researcher GALCIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
3:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Valencia Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 1st, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Rethinking false vacuum decay
Djuna Croon,
Durham University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Bounds for standard L-functions
Paul Nelson,
Mathematics,
IAS,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Neural Networks and Numerical PDEs
Jinchao Xu,
Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics & Director,
Center for Computational Mathematics and Applications,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar/Webinar: Dr. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Online Event
- Public Event
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Astronomy on Tap (Español)
Online Event
Ciencia con el Telescopio James Webb de la NASA
- Public Event
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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Discrete Analysis Seminar
Supercritical percolation on finite transitive graphs
Philip Easo,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Preparing for the Next Decade of Venus Exploration
Alex Akins,
Research Technologist,
Microwave Instrument Science Group,
JPL,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
9:30am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
A randomized quantum algorithm for statistical phase estimation
Kianna Wan,
PhD Candidate,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Increasing Accuracy in Measuements of the Hubble Constant: Is There Evidence for New Physics?
Wendy Freedman,
John and Mary Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Impact of atmospheric and oceanic advective feedbacks on the AMOC response to CO2 increase
Oluwayemi Garuba,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Multiscale Characterization of Metallic Alloy Solidification Dynamics
Amy Clarke,
Professor,
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Colorado School of Mines,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Evaluating Economic Models
Drew Fudenberg,
Paul A. Samuel Professor of Economics,
MIT,
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Data-driven mechanics – the challenge to model inelastic material behaviour and structures
Stefanie Reese,
Professor,
Institute of Applied Mechanics,
RWTH Aachen University,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Synthetic multistability in mammalian cells"
Ronghui Zhu,
Elowitz Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Computing at the Speed of Light
Terry Rudolph,
PsiQuantum and Imperial College London,
Friday, November 5th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
JTbar-deformed CFTs as non-local CFTs
Monica Guica,
IPhT-Saclay,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Probing many-body quantum chaos in quantum simulators via randomized measurements
Andreas Elben,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Molecular and Supramolecular Organometallics for Luminescence Sensing, and Photoredox Catalysis
Thomas S. Teets,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Houston,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
An FC-based shock-dynamics solver with neural-network localized artificial-viscosity assignment
Daniel Leibovici,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Wearable inductive damping sensors for skin edema quantification
Tzu-Chieh (Jake) Chou,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Situating the University in Time and Space
Sharon Stein,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Educational Studies,
University of British Columbia,
Stephanie Kim,
Assistant Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration,
Georgetown University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
What's Happening in Halos?
J. Michael Shull,
Professor,
Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Classical fluid mechanics confronts modern research questions: Virus transport, a novel similarity solution, and an N-body problem
Online Event
Howard Stone,
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor and Chair,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Volume estimates of complements of lifts of geodesics in projective tangent bundles
Saturday, November 6th, 2021
1:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Parya-Papazian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Muradian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Online Event
Non-ergodicity and emergent Hilbert-space fragmentation in tilted Fermi- Hubbard chains
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Sparsity of Integral Points on Moduli Spaces of Varieties
4:00pm
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