Institute Calendar
Spring 2020-2021
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Obstructions to Gapped Boundaries for (2+1)d TQFT
Justin Kaidi,
SCGP,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:04pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Studying the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From Neutron Stars to Tests of Gravity
Katerina Chatziioannou,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Pattern effect, non-constant radiative feedbacks, and the estimation of climate sensitivity
Maria Rugenstein,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Computational Screening of Two-Dimensional Materials for Electro-Catalysis
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 20th, 2021
8:00am
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6/4
11:59pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena
Tal Cohen,
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
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
Image-guided ultrasound-activated drug delivery using gas vesicle microgels
Paulene Abundo (Shapiro Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Black Holes - Nature or Nurture?: The Roles of Rotation and Accretion in Powering Cosmic Sources
Roger Blandford,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
Space Cameras: A Sharper Image
Justin Maki,
Imaging Scientist/Mastcam-Z Deputy PI,
NASA/JPL,
Hallie Abarca,
Mars 2020 Image and Data Processing Operations Lead,
NASA/JPL,
- Public Event
Friday, May 21st, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Volatile Chemical Products: Understanding Aerosol Yields and Dynamics
Sophia Charan,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
From AdS/CFT to soft theorems in flat space
Eliot Hijano,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Coordination Chemistry of Mn(I) Catalysts
David C. Lacy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University at Buffalo, North Campus,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tackling the Complex Dynamics of Unsteady Flows
Online Event
Kunihiko Taira
Kunihiko Taira,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
The Surprising World of Pulsars
Amruta Jaodand,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Monday, May 24th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Theoretical, computational, and experimental characterization of nematic elastomers
Victoria (Tori) Lee,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
TBA
Stephen Wright,
George B Dantzig, Professor of Computer Sciences,
Computer Science Department,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Redox Chemistry and Structural Reorganization upon Small Molecule Activation at Nanoscale WFe13 Cluster
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Online Event
Fighting the First Wave
Peter Baldwin,
Global Distinguished Professor, NYU; Professor of History, UCLA,
- Public Event
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
The context-dependent, combinatorial logic of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signaling
Heidi Klumpe,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Xiaobin Xiong,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry
Fe Dai,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
TBD
William Shih,
Professor,
Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Caltech Alumna Dr. Ellis Meng (USC)
Online Event
"Polymer-based Microfabricated Implants"
Ellis Meng,
Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair in Convergent Bioscience and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
- Public Event
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Streamwise homogeneous turbulent boundary layers
Joseph Ruan,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
An Overview of Using Mechanism Design for Social Good
Kira Goldner,
Postdoc,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
The Wisdom of the Crowd and Higher-Order Beliefs
Mallesh Pai,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium - Neugebauer Lecture
Online Event
Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes
Andrea Ghez,
Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Antarctic Sea Ice Variability, Change and Linkages with the Atmospheric Circulation
Marilyn Raphael,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Tracing Stress-driven Atomic-scale Dynamics in Metallic Glasses
Robert Maass,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Spiritual Nerds Podcast: Do our physical senses reveal the full spectrum of reality?
Online Event
- Public Event
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Frontal circuit specialisations for decision making
Laurence Hunt,
Wellcome/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Oxford,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning approaches for predicting Seismic, Acoustic and Atmospheric Data
Maria Giselle Fernandez,
Postdoctoral Associate Fellow, XCP-8,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Metabolic optogenetics as a new paradigm to study and engineer metabolism
José L. Avalos,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Transforms and Entropy
Erdal Arikan,
Professor,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Bilkent University, Turkey,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Architecture of the cytoplasmic face of the NPC and an examination of how SARS-CoV2 ORF6 manipulates nucleocytoplasmic transport events
Dr. George Mobbs (Hoelz Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Cavity acoustodynamics: insight into quantum noise in materials and opportunities for quantum computing
Oskar Painter,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Friday, May 28th, 2021
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Cosmology from confinement
Mark van Raamsdonk,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue
Atul Singh Arora,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Manipulating the Physicochemical Properties of Vanadium Oxide Clusters with Atomic Precision
Ellen M. Matson,
Wilmot Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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