Institute Calendar
Fall 2023-2024
Saturday, October 7th, 2023
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4:30pm
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Monday, October 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Atmospheric methane: where did you come from, where did you go?
Alexander Turner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
Universtiy of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory
Wouter Dekens,
INT, University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Probing post-measurement entanglement without post-selection
Sam Garratt,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love,
Novelist,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
8:00am
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3:00pm
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8:00am
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3:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices
David A. Mazziotti,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
David Stephenson,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor , Emeritus,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Heather Knutson,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entropy Vector Dynamics from Cayley Graphs
William Munizzi,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Ensemble Kalman methods: statistical theory in high and infinite dimension
Daniel Sanz-Alonso,
Assistant Professor Department of Statistics (CAMI),
Department of Statistics (CAMI) and the College Member: Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM),
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
The Effects of Peremptory Challenges on Jury Diversity and Conviction Rates
Joanna Huey,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantifying emergent effects through homological algebra
Johnny Jingze Li,
Mathematical Neuroscience Lab,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
From Exoplanets to the Solar System: Rocky Planet Formation in a New Light
Hilke Schlichting,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
More than physics, more than data: Integrated machine-learning models for chemistry
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Understanding and predicting radiation-matter interactions through atomistic modeling
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent's Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
Emily Adlam,
Assistant Professor,
Schmid College of Science and Technology,
Chapman University,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 12th, 2023
11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adaptable, Scalable, and Certifiable Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Brett Lopez,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Seminar
Attitudes toward Automation and the Demand for Policies Addressing Job Loss: The Effects of Information about Trade-Offs
Beatrice Magistro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Dan Schwartz, MD
Mining Medically Translatable Technology at Caltech
Dan Schwartz, MD,
Physician in Residence, Merkin Institute for Translational Research,
California Instittute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer
Garnet Chan,
Caltech,
Friday, October 13th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua
Richard Nally,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Higher-dimensional encoding and programmable openness with Rydberg atom arrays
Jacob Covey,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
https://ctac.carnegiescience.edu/annastasia-haynie
Annastasia Haynie,
Graduate Student,
Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
USC / Carnegie Observatories,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition and the BOLT Flight Experiments
Graham Candler,
McKnight Presidential Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella,
Research Group Leader,
Department of Organometallic Chemistry,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Labeled four cycles and the K(pi,1) problem for reflection arrangement complements
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 14th, 2023
7:00am
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10/17
11:00am
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8:30am
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10:30am
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, October 15th, 2023
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 16th, 2023
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Appealing to Independents: Information on Negative Externalities Increases Support for Environmental Corrective Taxes
R. Michael Alvarez,
Professor of Political and Computational Social Science,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Beatrice Magistro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Towards a Unified Model of Planet Formation
Konstantin Batygin,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Qubit-based sensing for axion dark matter
Chiara Salemi,
KICP, Stanford/SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Konstantin Batygin,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Andy Ingersoll,
Professor, Emeritus,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Geoff Blake,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Insitute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The orbit method, microlocal analysis and applications to L-functions
Paul Nelson,
Department of Mathematics,
Aarhus University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Difference-in-Differences with Interference: A Finite Population Perspective
Ruonan Xu,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
School of Art and Sciences,
Rutgers,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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