Institute Calendar
Fall 2023-2024
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Integer modes and Bulk w_(1+infinity) symmetry
Noah Miller,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Modelling multiphase matter: from microparticles to mega-icebergs
Eric Hester,
Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Spectral Method for the Gravitational Perturbations of Black Holes
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Machine Learning: The Evolution of Gas from Molecular Clouds to Stars
Stella Offner,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Center for Scientific Machine Learning,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Applied atmospheric science for wind energy research
Caroline Draxl,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From saving pharmaceuticals to saving priceless historical artefacts: understanding nanostructure with x-rays and algorithms
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Scaling for Growth: From R&D to Reality
Steve Oldham,
CEO,
Captura,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 19th, 2023
8:00am
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10/22
6:00pm
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10:19am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Creating a New Circular Carbon Economy via Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Ah-Hyung "Alissa" Park,
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Natural and engineered molecular chaperones against amyloidogenic substrates"
Arpit Gupta,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shan Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Supermassive primordial black holes from inflation
Aurora Ireland,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Some computer studies of membrane proteins, molecular chaperones, and color
Shyam Saladi,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The algebraic Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture for the complement of a very general hypersurface in Pn
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The role of ER shape, dynamics, and membrane contact sites in health and disease
Gia Voeltz,
Professor, HHMI Investigator,
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microbes in the wild: Unraveling microbial community dynamics in their natural environment
Smruthi Karthikeyan,
Professor,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series-Professor Tim Salcudean
Image guided surgery and tissue elasticity imaging using ultrasound
Professor Tim Salcudean,
Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter
Mariangela Lisanti,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2023
All Day
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9:00am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neural Drug Biosensors in Cellular Imaging and Computational Ethology
Anand Muthusamy,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measurement-Prepared Quantum Phases and Transitions
Wenjie Ji,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chen Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Accretion Disk Structure Beyond the Standard Thin Disk Model
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Mechanics and Design for Origami at Multiple Scale
Evgueni T. Filipov,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Floquet Gap-dependent topological classifications from color-decorated frequency lattices with space-time symmetries
Iryan Na,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkely,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wiring the Quantum Future: Developing Interconnects for Superconducting Qubits
Mohammad Mirhosseini,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics; 2022 KNI-Wheatley Scholar,
Caltech,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Inequalities for proving convergence of coupled PDEs for modeling distribution shift
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The extremal structures of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality: convex polytopes and beyond
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, October 21st, 2023
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk: Cautionary Tales: The Horrors of Tightly-Coupled Complexity
Georg Fisher Tech Talk
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- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Learning About Informativeness
Wanying (Kate) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From Atom to System – Electrochemistry for Terawatt-Hour Energy Transition.
Ying Shirley Meng,
Professor of Molecular Engineering,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Tale of Two Pools: The dynamic impacts of reactive transport, phase separation and shallow mixing on the geochemistry and microbiology of a coupled Yellowstone hydrothermal system
Kenneth Sims,
Professor,
Isotope Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of Wyoming,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Learning to Perceive in the Era of Large Models
Georgia Gkioxari,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
CMS - EE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The search for µ− → e+ conversion at µ− → e− conversion experiments
Michael Mackenzie,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Subconvex bounds for unitary groups in horizontal aspects
Paul Nelson,
Department of Mathematics,
Aarhus University,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
10:45am
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar with Prof. Fei Miao
Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Improved performance guarantees for the median of means estimator
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in CCE Seminar
"Unlocking molecular selectivity at electrochemical interfaces through redox-electron transfer"
Dr. Xiao Su,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing and imaging nuclear and electronic motions at molecular length-scales in disordered media harnessing optical and scattering interactions
Thomas Markland,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
On the Dust of Primitive Small Bodies in the Solar System
Yuna Kwon,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The 2x2 Demonstrator - A demonstrator for the DUNE ND-LAr Near Detector based on the ArgonCube Design
Brooke Russell,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Adapting to Misspecification
Tim Armstrong,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
USC,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
8:00am
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10/31
11:59pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Toroidal Casimir Energy of Conformal Field Theories with d>2
Conghuan Luo,
New York University,
10:45am
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12:15pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Quantum circuits for fast multiplication with few ancillas
Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Ensemble data assimilation methods for improving model statistics Abstract:
Eviatar Bach,
Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,