Institute Calendar
Fall 2024-2025
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Accelerated Discovery of the Processing Genome for Nickel Superalloys
Andrea M. Hodge,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Peter B. Dervan Lecture
Fe-mediated N₂ fixation and lessons for Mo: Bridging catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis.
Jonas C. Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Screening Two Types
Nima Haghpanah,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Pennsylvania State University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
8:00am
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12/6
11:59pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Integrating Multi-scale Modeling and Control Theory in Biomedical Therapeutic Systems
Michaëlle N. Mayalu,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Detecting the Mobile Genetic Elements Driving the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance"
Matt Ratanapanichkich,
Graduate Student,
Ismagilov Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Getting Things Done Part 2 - A system for highly productive people – Implementation
Online Event
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
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Mergers and Mismatches in the Labor Market for Creativity
Ke Shi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Endomorphisms of varieties
Burt Totaro,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Position-Specific Isotope Analysis for Life Detection and Beyond: Applications in astrobiology, environmental sciences and chemical forensics
Cornelia Rasmussen,
Research Associate,
Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Novel electronic phases from frustration
Linda Ye,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The evaporation of charged black holes
Luca Iliesiu,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Economic History Talk
Technological Change and the Market for Books, 1450-1550
Qiyi Zhao,
PhD Student,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum phase diagram and non-abelian Moore-Read state in double twisted bilayer graphene
Sen Niu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Cal State Northridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the Hunt for Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events
Tatsuya Akiba,
Graduate Student,
Dept. of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences/JILA,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Thomas Bernhardt
Beyond the wall: the role of membranes in bacterial cell shape and integrity.
Thomas Bernhardt,
Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Thomas Bernhardt
Beyond the wall: the role of membranes in bacterial cell shape and integrity.
Thomas Bernhardt,
Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Identifying coherent structures and controlling turbulent flows through deep learning
Ricardo Vinuesa,
Associate Professor,
Department of Engineering Mechanics,
KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Framed real monopole Floer homology
Jiakai Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Elucidating the Mechanism of Photoreduction of Sm(III) by Hantzsch Ester for Catalytic Applications."
Luke Zhou,
Undergraduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Building Seismic Resilience for a Carbon-Neutral Future and in Urban Environments
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Idea Incubator
Idea Incubator
Slava Krushkal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Virginia,
Raphaël Rouquier,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 24th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, November 25th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development and Characterization of a Table-Top Laser-Produced Plasma Source for In-Situ and Time-Resolved Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Danika Nimlos,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise
Marios Galanis,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Burke Institute Lecture Series
Online and In-Person Event
Introduction to turbulence for physicists
Gregory Falkovich,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
4d mirror symmetry for class-S theories
Wenbin Yan,
Yau Mathematical Science Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Low regularity well-posedness for the Generalized Surface Quasi-Geostrophic front equation
Ovidiu-Neculai Avadanei,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, November 28th, 2024
8:00am
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11/29
5:00pm
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9:00am
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11/29
3:00pm
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Monday, December 2nd, 2024
8:30am
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12/23
5:30pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Community Engagement in Rural Alaska: Developing capacity for planning and adapting to riverbank erosion and its consequences in the Yukon River Basin
John S. Magyar,
Research Scientist,
Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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DOW LECTURE IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
The Bionic Leaf: Surpassing the C- and N-Fixation Processes of Nature
Daniel G. Nocera,
Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution: The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters / Constraining Black Hole Growth History With Population Spin Measurements
Steffani Grondin,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
Asia Piotrowska-Karpov,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter
Nicholas Rodd,
LBNL,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
8:00am
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2:30pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Hillel Adesnik
Optically probing the neural codes of perception
Hillel Adesnik,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology/ Neuroscience,
University of California - Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Burke Institute Lecture Series
Online and In-Person Event
Introduction to turbulence for physicists
Gregory Falkovich,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Advocating for the Future of Space Exploration
Jack Kiraly,
Director of Government Relations,
The Planetary Society,
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
9:00am
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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
Tidal Effects of Compact Objects From Theory to Observations
Zihan Zhou,
Princeton University,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Construction and obstruction results in Baire measurable combinatorics
Clark Lyons,
Eötvös Loránd University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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