Institute Calendar
Spring 2020-2021
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
5:00pm
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6:15pm
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
8:00am
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5/4
11:59pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Localization, stochastic localization, and Chen's recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonivits conjecture
Ronen Eldan,
Professor,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Boehringer Ingelheim-Caltech Lectures
Online Event
Uttam Tambar,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Texas - Southwestern,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robots
Aaron D. Ames,
Bren Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux)
Mohammad Akbarpour,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Small But Mighty: The Tiniest White Dwarf and Other Stories
Ilaria Caiazzo,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Visualizing Materials Functionality at the Atomic Scale
Aaron Lindenberg,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering and Photon Science,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Race and the brain: Insights from the neural systems of emotion and decisions
Elizabeth Phelps,
Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Irmgard Bischofberger,
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Scaffold-Mediated Control of Competing Kinase Reactions in the Wnt Signaling Network
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
New opportunities for battery research and development from inside-out MRI and magnetometry
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
New Directions for Light Dark Matter
Yonit Hochberg,
Hebrew University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Highly Enantioselective Biocatalytic [1,2]-Stevens Rearrangements: One-Carbon Ring Expansion of Aziridines to Azetidines
Dr. David Miller (Arnold Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 30th, 2021
8:00am
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9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Understanding imperfections and instabilities in crystals via physics-based and data-driven models
Ying Shi Teh,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Towards Lefschetz thimbles in sigma models
Nikita Nekrasov,
SCGP,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Adventures in High-Valent Nonheme Iron Oxidation Chemistry
Lawrence Que, Jr.,
Regents Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Spacecraft Guidance and Control under Probabilistic Uncertainty for Coordinated Inspection and Safe Learning
Online Event
Yashwanth Nakka
Yashwanth Nakka,
PhD Candidate,
GALCIT,
Monday, May 3rd, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Beyond Lorentz's Lamp-post: Positivity Bounds for Cosmology
Scott Melville,
DAMTP, University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Qi Lei,
Princeton,
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
8:00am
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5/28
6:00pm
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10:00am
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10:50am
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11:00am
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11:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The matrix-weighted Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is unbounded
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Alberto Ríos,
Writer and Poet,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Controlling Interfacial Electron and Atom Transfer Reactions for Chemical Synthesis
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Driven Dynamical Systems and Control
Steve Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor / Adjunct Associate Professor,
Mechanincal Engineering / Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inaguaral OCS Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Interrogating enzymatic reactions using nucleic acid molecular recognition and assembly
Jennifer M. Heemstra,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Emorry University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Rational Anabolic Persuasion
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University & University College London,
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Wenlong Ma,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Black Hole Mass Measurement with ALMA
Aaron Barth,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Observing the bottom limb of the MOC: new insight into deep water formation and transformation from Deep Argo and deep ocean microstructure measurements
Sarah Purkey,
University of California San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Controlling Zeolite Polymorphism from First Principles
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
9:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Mehran Tehrani,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
More than one sensorial modality to do mainstream science in astronomy?
Dr. Wanda Díaz-Merced,
Astronomer,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Nonstandard thermal histories and the small-scale matter power spectrum
Jessie Shelton,
UIUC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Ke Yu,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
A molecular thermostat switches on alternative chaperone activity during heat stress
Dr. Alex Siegel, Shan Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Sarnak's density hypothesis in horizontal families
Mikołaj Frączyk,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
The cycle of matter in the magnetized interstellar medium as revealed by machine vision
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Flatspace Holography: Celestial Amplitudes and Symmetries
Monica Pate,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Electron (De) Localization in f-Element Systems: From Fundamental Questions to QIS Design Principles
Henry S. La Pierre,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Control of Wall-Bounded Turbulence Through Closed-Loop Wall Transpiration
Online Event
Simon Toedtli
Simon Toedtli,
PhD Candidate,
Aeronautics,
GALCIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2021