Institute Calendar
Fall 2022-2023
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
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Astronomy Colloquium
The DESI Survey and Galaxy Evolution: Lyman Alpha Emitters and the Andromeda Galaxy
Arjun Dey,
Astronomer,
NSFs National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab),
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiphase Atmospheric Chemistry: Bridging scales from the lab to the atmosphere
Faye McNeill,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Impact of Local Disorder on Materials Properties studied by Single Crystal Diffuse Scattering
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Innovation Adoption by Committee: Evidence from the FDA
Nathan Canen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Houston,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: The Dance of Life: How Do We Become Ourselves?
Online and In-Person Event
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,
Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"The structure and the function of linker-scaffold in the nuclear pore complex"
Stefan Petrovic,
Hoelz Group,
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Geology Club Seminar
The Seismo Lab as Caltech Microcosm
David Zierler,
Director of the Caltech Heritage Project,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Bosonic Quantum Information Processing
Liang Jiang,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Random dimer coverings of the Aztec diamond with doubly periodic edge weights
Tomas Berggren,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
6:00pm
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Friday, November 4th, 2022
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The bulk Hilbert space of double scaled SYK
Henry Lin,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Auditability in Allocation Problems
Aram Grigoryan,
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC San Diego,
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Wormhole Inspired Teleportation on a Quantum Computer
Vincent Su,
Graduate Student, Bousso Group,
UC Berkeley,
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Exploring the dynamics of neutron star accretion columns by radiative relativistic MHD simulations
Lizhong Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
U.C. Santa Barbara,
2:30pm
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KNI Microscopy Seminar
From mm3 to atoms – Correlative Microscopy Workflows to Solve Materials and Biological Problems
Dr. Nabil Bassim,
Scientific Director of the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
McMaster University, Canada,
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Granular Flows: Photoelastic Avalanches & Bedform Dynamics
Nathalie Vriend,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Saturday, November 5th, 2022
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Sunday, November 6th, 2022
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Monday, November 7th, 2022
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Special Bioengineering Seminar - Netz Arroyo, Johns Hopkins University
Enabling Continuous Molecular Monitoring in the Body via Implantable and Wearable Electrochemical Aptamer-based Sensors
3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Complex analytic approach to spectral problems for differential operators
Ashley Ran Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Conductivity and Dynamic Bonding in Nanoscale MOFs
Carl K. Brozek,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
SAPP digging the Milky Way through the lens of Gaia-ESO
Matthew Gent,
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Urban emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants using remote sensing from JPL's CLARS facility on Mt. Wilson, California
Stanley Sander,
Visiting Associate in Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Capturing the First Portrait of Our Milky Way's Black Hole & Beyond
Katherine L. (Katie) Bouman,
Assistant Professor,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute,
California Institute of Technology,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Primordial black holes and gravitational waves from long-range scalar forces
Marcos Flores,
UCLA,
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
On the general notion of homotopy-invariant properties
Joseph Helfer,
USC,
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Heegaard Floer homology, immersed curves, and chirally cosmetic surgeries
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The soliton resolution conjecture for equivariant wave maps
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Regularity for weighted convex isoperimetric problems
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Why high temperature laboratory spectroscopy is key to exploring Mercury and Venus - and why it is much harder than it sounds
Jörn Helbert,
Head of Planetary Spectroscopy Lab,
Head of the Department,
German Aerospace Center Institute of Planetary Research,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
Giulia Brancaccio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics, Stern School of Business,
New York University,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Importance of Brown Dwarfs
Jacqueline Faherty,
Senior Scientist & Senior Education Manager,
Department of Astrophysics,
American Museum of Natural History,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anthropogenic Aerosols as a Driver of Regional Climate Risk
Geeta Persad,
University of Texas,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Costly monitoring in signaling games
Tommaso Denti,
Assistant Professor and Salvatore Faculty Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Ductile and Brittle Fracture of Polycrystals
Jean Michel Scherer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"No Rest for Electrons: The Mechanisms of Biological Phenazine Redox Reactions"
Lev Tsypin and John Ciemniecki,
Newman Group,
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PhD Thesis Defense
Gut microbiota suppress feeding induced by palatable foods
James Ousey,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
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EE Devices Seminar - Sander Weinreb, Caltech/JPL
New Era Radio Astronomy – Objectives and Technology
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Biochemistry Seminar
Interrogating a Protein's Energy Landscape: From Protein Folding to Coronavirus
Susan Marqusee,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology,
Berkeley,