Institute Calendar
Fall 2021-2022
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A Dynamical Synthesis of Planetary Systems
Malena Rice,
Graduate Research Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Special Webinar: Dr. Xueqian (Lucy) Li
Online Event
Light-Driven Catalysis: Untangling Thermal and Non-thermal Effects
- Public Event
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Spectral Independence: A New Tool to Analyze Markov Chains
Kuikui Liu,
Graduate Student,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Debris Disk Paradigm and its Challenges
Mark Wyatt,
Professor of Astronomy,
Institute of Astronomy,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Nanoscale Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Carbon and Water Management
Young-Shin Jun,
Washington University St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quantum Disorder in the Magnetism of Spin-Orbit Entangled AMO2 Delafossites (A=alkali metal, M=metal)
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration
Bernardo Silveira,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics, UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why it Matters
Online Event
Xie Chen,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
8:30am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Micro-continuum approach for the multi-scale modeling of coupled processes in the subsurface
Cyprien Soulaine,
Associate Scientist,
French National Centre for Scientific Research,,
Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Black Transfigurations: Engineering, African Cosmologies & Visual Media
Mikael Owunna,
Studio Director,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Structure-function Studies on Sodium, Potassium-ATPase to Selectively Modulate Brain Dysfunctions"
Veronica B. Hubble,
Stoltz Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Computational data science approaches to paleoecology and paleoclimatology
Hannah Carroll,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
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
Creating and measuring the elusive Majorana fermion
Vidya Madhavan,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
Rising Tides: First Year in Space for NASA's Earth Flagship
Josh Willis,
Lead NASA Scientist for Sentinel-6,
NASA/JPL,
- Public Event
Friday, November 12th, 2021
10:00am
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11:40am
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Nc Hodge Learning Seminar
New perspectives on nc Hodge theory
Ludmil Katzarkov,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Miami,
11:00am
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11:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fun with SUSY defects
Fei Yan,
Rutgers University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum error correction meets continuous symmetries: fundamental trade-offs and case studies
Sisi Zhou,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Bubble dynamics in a Hele-Shaw cell
Online Event
Anne Juel,
Professor of Fluid Mechanics,
University of Manchester,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
7:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Sunday, November 14th, 2021
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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In Conversation with Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95), 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
Online Event
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The unbounded denominators conjecture
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Synthesis of Diverse Families of Organic Compounds via Nickel-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Dylan J. Freas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A compactly supported motivic Euler characteristic via the Hochschild complex
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Physics-Informed Machine Learning
George Em Karniadakis,
The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor,
Applied Mathematics and Engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders
Cari Cesarotti,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Symmetry, Bifurcation and the Landscape Geometry of a Model Shallow Neural Network
Michael Field,
Research Associate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar with Dr. R. Lee Penn
Online Event
Technical Talk and Personal Story with Dr. R. Lee Penn
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Raman Spectroscopy for Planetary Science: Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
Joby Razzell Hollis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Planetary Sciences,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Gender, Electoral Incentives, and Crisis Response: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors
Clemence Tricaud,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Concentration for Trotter error
Anthony (Chi-Fang) Chen,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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