Institute Calendar
Fall 2023-2024
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
All Day
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Scenario Sampling for Large Supermodular Games
Bryan Graham,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unveiling the Failure of the Effective Stress Theory in Unsaturated Materials: A multiscale journey using DEM
David Cantor,
Research Associate,
Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering,
Polytechnique Montreal,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Case Study: Accurate Battery Forecasting
Prof. Louis Piper,
Professor of Battery Innovation,
Electrochemical Materials, Energy Division WMG,
The University of Warwick,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, September 29th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories
Tom Melia,
IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing localization properties of many-body Hamiltonians via an imaginary vector potential
Liam O'Brien,
Refael Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar
Feedback control of ultracold atomic gases
Ryan Thomas, PhD,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Australian National University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gaining Physical Insights into the Formation of Black-Hole Mergers
Monica Gallegos-Garcia,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
John J. Montgomery's Circulation Theory of Lift: A Historical Perspective on Flow for Aerodynamics
Dr. Gary Fogel,
Natural Selection, Inc.,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Lee filtration structure of torus links, adjunction inequality, and applications
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 2nd, 2023
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Measuring charge carrier and structural photodynamics at solar energy material surfaces using transient extreme ultraviolet reflection spectroscopy
Jonathan Michelsen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Virtu Finance Tech Talk
Joe Danzer,
Strategy Developer,
Virtu Finance,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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10/3
6:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
A Data-Driven Approach to Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon
Tamma Carleton,
Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics, Climate Change,
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Tracking water resources and probing Earth structure with space geodesy
Hilary Martens,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
University of Montana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Light Shining Through a Thin Wall: Evanescent Hidden Photon Detection
Ryan Janish,
Fermilab,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Rosen Center Seminar
Proteins as Mechano-Chemical Switches as Probed in Healthy and Diseased Organs
Viola Vogel,
Professor,
Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, Department for Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST),
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Katherine de Kleer,,
Assistant Professor, Hufstedler Family Scholar,
Planetary Science and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Yuk L. Yung,
Professor & Senior Research Scientist,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology & JPL,
Mike Brown,
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy and the Terence D. Barr Leadership Chair and Director of the Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering
Fusing machine learning and simulations for molecular design
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Chair, Associate Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
10:00am
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12:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Grey Galaxies: The Endpoint of Superradiant Instabilities in Rotating AdS Black Holes
Jaeha Lee,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Online Event
Quantum Hamiltonian Descent
Xiaodi Wu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Bounding spectral gap for Laplacian and Dirac operator
Yixin Xu,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Origin of Cosmic Rays: Updates from Multi-Messenger Observations
Nahee Park,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy,
Queen's University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From leaves to ecosystems: new insight into plants from novel remote sensing observations
Xi Yang,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Design and Discover of New Correlated Electron Systems: Exploring New Materials Space
Paul Canfield,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Iowa State University,
Senior Scientist at Ames Laboratory,
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
All Day
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Canceled: Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Jacob Robinson
Minimally invasive brain interfaces using magnetic materials
Professor Jacob T. Robinson,
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Rice University. Co-Founder and CEO, Motif Neurotech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical CO2 Flows Through Microtubes
Hojin Ahn,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Yeditepe University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Open/closed correspondence and mirror symmetry
Song Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Lecture
Metal ions as dynamic crosslinkers for polyelectrolyte gel networks
Pierre Walker,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Implicit Government Guarantees
Andrew J. Sinclair,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Asymptotics for the site frequency spectrum associated with the genealogy of a birth and death process
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators
Jack Harris,
Yale,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Poisson Boundaries Without Moment Conditions
Joshua Frisch,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
Friday, October 6th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries
Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring high-amplitude quantum motion in a nanogram object
Jack Harris,
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,
Yale,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A tale of two objects: binary formation, evolution and distribution
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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