Institute Calendar
Spring 2020-2021
Monday, April 19th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games
Xiaomin Li,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Dark photons and the cosmic radiation background
Hongwan Liu,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Nitrogen-Containing Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons Relevant to Electrocatalysis
Gavin Heim,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
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11:50am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Ionic transport in nanoscale fluids far from equilibrium
David Limmer,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Aida Behmard,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Qicheng Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institue of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Making Bio-Interfaces with Evolutionary Success: Lessons From the Bird"
Cheng-Ming Chuong, MD, PhD,
Professor,
Pathology,
University Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Efficiency with Political Power Dynamics and Costly Policy Change
Hülya Eraslan,
Ralph O'Connor Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Necmiye Ozay,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
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Poetry Reading
Kazim Ali,
Professor of Literature, Creative Writing,
UC San Diego,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Itai Ashlagi,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos
Jia Liu,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Recycling of Moisture in the Amazonian Basin and Possible Impacts of Future Deforestation
Francina Dominguez,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenides: From Giant Optical Anisotropy to Ultralow Glassy Thermal Conductivity
Jayakanth Ravichandran,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Sunlight to Everything: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future
Online Event
Jonas Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
On the well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
10:00am
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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
Online Event
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Thao (Vicky) Nguyen,
Professor; Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins,
12:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Stefano Soatto,
UCLA / AWS,
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
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Stimulated Raman Scattering as a multi-dimensional tool to study neuroscience
Kun Miao (Wei Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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The Dark Phase of Quantum Matter
Louis Taillefer,
Université de Sherbrooke and CIFAR,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 23rd, 2021
9:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Real-time gravitational replicas
Mukund Rangamani,
UC Davis/QMAP,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps
Iliya Esin,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
"My Journey from Chemistry to the Political Stage"
Dr. Nancy Goroff,
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11:30am
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Adaptive Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems
Online Event
Aditya A. Paranjape
Aditya A. Paranjape,
Scientist at Tata TCS Research and,
Department of Aeronautics,
Imperial College London (starting in summer 2021),
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
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The failure of the 4D light bulb theorem with dual spheres of non-zero square
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Saturday, April 24th, 2021
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8:30pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2021
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11:00am
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Approximating Choice Data by Discrete Choice Models (with Yusuke Narita)
Kota Saito,
Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Hyounghan Kwon,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments: Tree Search, Function Approximators and Markov Games
Qiaomin Xie,
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
New Theoretical Approaches to Investigate Light-Matter Interactions
Pengfei (Frank) Huo,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?
Tom Clark,
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science,
Emory University,
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
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The tidal excitation of Jupiter's dilute core & Photochemistry, Aerosols, and Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres
Ben Idini,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Danica Adams,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institue of Technology,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
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"Building Biofilms: Surface Sensing and a Second Messenger Signal"
Shanice S. Webster,
Ph.D. Candidate O'Toole Lab,
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth,