Institute Calendar
Fall 2024-2025
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Designing Energy Conversion and Storage Structures Using Two-Dimensional Materials
Zhengtang Luo,
Professor and Program Director of MSc in Chemical and Energy Engineering,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Ordered Ramsey numbers of powers of paths
Oliver Janzer,
Trinity College,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Next Decade of Discoveries with Radio Interferometry: Bringing Nature's Deepest Mysteries into View
Michael Johnson,
Astrophysicist,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard & Smithsonian,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Exploring the Dynamics and Activity of Massive Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Blooms in South San Francisco Bay
Christopher Francis,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Linguistic Structure from a Bottleneck on Sequential Information Processing
Richard Futrell,
Department of Language Science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Light-Responsive Materials for a Sustainable Future: Exploring Optically-Controlled Functional Organic Systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Guy Talk: Catalyzing Peer Effects on IPV through Virtual Support Groups for Men
Erica Field,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Don't get stuck: (no)flow and clogging of particulate suspensions
Alban Sauret,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Temperature dependent state switches for macrophage immunotherapy"
Ann Liu,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Contact instantons and contact dynamics
Yong-Geun Oh,
IBS Center for Geometry and Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Ends of the uniform spanning tree on unimodular random rooted graphs
Diederik van Engelenburg,
Lyon University,
3:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Stability conditions on surface root stacks
Yeqin Liu,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Isotope diagenesis of biogenic silica in marine sediments & implications for paleotemperature reconstruction
Anastasia Yanchilina,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Vector-Valued Concentration on the Symmetric Group
Miriam Gordin,
Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
What is a machine in the European Middle Ages? Cognition, mechanics, and cosmology in medieval philosophy
Jonathan Morton,
Associate Professor,
Tulane University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Towards an explicit Bezrukavnikov's equivalence in mixed characteristic
Jize Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Robust dynamics and function in stochastic topological systems
Evelyn Tang,
Rice University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Patterns and statistics in shifts of finite type
Jacob Richey,
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
Friday, November 1st, 2024
8:30am
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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
Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes
Alexandre Homrich,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Anyon quantum dimensions from an arbitrary ground state wave function
Shang Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling and Numerical Discretization in Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence
Robert Moser,
W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Texas, Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The (fractional) Dehn twist coefficient and infinite-type surfaces
Hannah Turner,
School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics,
Stockton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Development of Selective C-H Amidation Catalysis Based on Mechanistic Elucidation of Nitrene Transfer Process".
Hoimin Jung,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Isotropic high-frequency radiation and elevated P/S amplitude ratios
Yehuda Ben-Zion,
Director of the Statewide California Earthquake Center and Professor of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Structured Deliberation
Dmitri Gallow,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:50pm
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 3rd, 2024
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, November 4th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
See event detail for location
Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities: Evidence from China during the Warlord Era
Kexin Feng,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar
"Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies".
Smaranda C. Marinescu,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Prevalence of Distant Giant Companions to Inner Small Planets / Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope and other experiments
Judah Van Zandt,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Tim Eifler,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Department of Physics,
The University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconceptualizing Mentoring
Joyce Yen,
Director of University of Washington ADVANCE,
Center for Institutional Change,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Waves and Resonances: Accelerated Green Functions, High-Frequency Asymptotics and Optimization for Simulation and Design
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS
Josh Bendavid,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Classifying vector bundles on complex projective spaces
Morgan Opie,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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QUANTUM MATTER SEMINAR
Dynamic Manipulation of Charge Density Waves
Vidya Madhaven,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Bohr-Sommerfeld surgeries on Lagrangian submanifolds
Soham Chanda,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,