Institute Calendar
Fall 2023-2024
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Future of AI in Astronomy
Cecilia Garraffo,
Astrophysicist,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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CCE - Roberts Lecture
A Radical Solution for C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation during the Biosynthesis of Macrocyclic Membrane Lipids
Squire J. Booker,
Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Where Ice Falls into the Ocean
Ken Zhao,
Oregon State/UCLA,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Expect the Unexpected: Novel Properties of Zeolite-Templated Porous Carbon Frameworks
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Thursday, November 30th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Beyond Black-Box Machine Learning for Mechanics
Sharlotte Kramer,
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff,
Sandia National Laboratories,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Human Blood-Brain Barrier Receptor-Guided Evolution of AAVs for Brain Gene Therapy"
Changfan Lin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Gradinaru Group,
12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Hair and Black Hole Information
Stephen Hsu,
Michigan State University,
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Joint Seminar: CPS/ ChE
Ive Hermans,
John and Dorothy Vozza Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
College of Letters and Science,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Dr. Jeffrey Karp
Tools for Accelerated Medical Innovation
Jeffrey Karp, Ph.D.,
Distinguished Professor of Anesthesia at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
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Number Theory Seminar
Local densities of hermitian lattices and Kudla—Rapoport conjectures with levels
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Using Nuclear Reactors to Study Neutrinos
Pedro Ochoa,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Inquiry, Risk, and Impartiality: Lessons from The Harvest of American Racism
Kareem Khalifa,
Professor of Philosophy,
UCLA,
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006
Allison Shertzer,
Economist,
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,
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LA Probability Forum
Phase transition in the log-gamma polymer measure
Evgeni Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, December 1st, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Massive gravity is not positive
Giulia Isabella,
UCLA,
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
W state is not the unique ground state of any local Hamiltonian
Lei Gioia,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
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CaJAGWR Seminar
High-Precision Waveforms with the Small-Mass-Ratio Limit
Scott A. Hughes,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
High-precision waveforms with the small-mass-ratio limit
Scott Hughes,
Professor of Physics,
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,
MIT,
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Function, structure and inheritance of the simplest known mitochondria of the unicellular intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia.
Pavel Dolezal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Parasitology,
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Additive Manufacturing for High-Performance Space and Energy Applications
Sadaf Sobhani,
Assistant Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Seeing is believing: Leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) for uncertainty-aware robot perception
Preston Culbertson,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Optimal regularity for minimizers of the prescribed mean curvature functional over isotopies
Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
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Monday, December 4th, 2023
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Special AMO Seminar
Dipole-dipole interactions between individual molecules in an optical tweezer array
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions
Shabnam Hematian,
Assistant Professor and Bernard-Glickman Dean's Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Plants, Planet, and People: Understanding and Leveraging Plant-Water Interactions for a Changing World
Jeannie Wilkening,
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations
Kevin McFarland,
University of Rochester,
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation
Margarita Davydova,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Astronomy on Tap
"Energy Beaming" and "Space Dust"
Michael Kelzenberg,
Senior Research Scientist,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Brenda Rubenstein,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A window into sub-Neptune interiors: coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water atmospheres
William Misener,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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12/15
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab
Alexander Kish,
Fermilab,
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Special CS Seminar
Learning from Exams
Brian Railing,
Associate Teaching Professor,
Computer Science Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Peter Buisseret,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Irregular conformal blocks and braiding properties
Xia Gu,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
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12/8
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Special DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation Chemistry in the Era of ALMA+JWST
Karin I. Öberg,
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes
James Stone,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can studying microbial physiology help us predict the fate of soil carbon?
Abraham (Avi) Flamholz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Machine Learning Strategies for Secondary Sphere Modification in Organocatalysis
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
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