Institute Calendar
Spring 2021-2022
Monday, March 28th, 2022
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Expansion, divisibility and parity
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
The Role of Astronomers in Addressing Climate Change
Travis Rector,
University of Alaska Anchorage,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Calculation of Inflation Correlators at One Loop
Yiming Zhong,
KICP, University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Self-similar gravitational collapse for the Euler-Poisson equations
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Accurate and transferable molecular-orbital-based machine learning for molecular modeling
Lixue Cheng,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning & Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Examining Occam's Razor in Deep Neural Networks Using Kolmogorov Complexity
3:59pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Seismology: Results from Mars crust to core and a return to the Moon
Mark Panning,
Research Scientist,
Planetary Science,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Informationally Robust Bilateral Trade
Songzi Du,
Associate Professor of Economics,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
9:30am
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constrained Willmore Surfaces
Peter Schröder,
Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Demographics of Stars and Exoplanets in the Era of TESS and Gaia
Daniel Huber,
Assistant Astronomer/Professor,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The Geometry of the Bing Involution
Michael Freedman,
Microsoft Research & UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identity-Based Elections
Helios Herrera,
Professor of Economics,
University of Warwick,
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The DARPA Grand Challenges: A Caltech Perspective
Prof. Joel W. Burdick,
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
"Ultrasound Imaging of Tumor-Homing and Intestinal Bacteria Using Acoustic Reporter Genes"
Marjorie Buss,
(Shapiro Group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Treasury Richness
Francis Longstaff,
Distinguished Professor of Finance and Allstate Chair in Insurance, Anderson School of Management,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, April 1st, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Charge and heat transport in non-metallic crystals using first-principles Boltzmann transport theory"
Peishi Cheng,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X.
Michael Freedman,
USCB/Microsoft,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A mathematical definition of the abelian group Q(X) := quantum cellular automata / finite depth quantum circuits and ancilla residing on a space X
Michael Freedman,
USCB/Microsoft,
12:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Minimum-Information Kalman-Bucy filtering limitation of continuous-time data compression
Takashi Tanaka,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
12:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
A positive proportion of integers are not the sum of two rational cubes
Manjul Bhargava,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Persistent Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at High Temperatures
Eliezer Rabinovici,
CERN, HU of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Intermediate mass black holes everywhere?
James Paynter,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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History Seminar
The Origins of Legal Literature in Europe: From the Big Bang to the Formation of Multiple Galaxies
Emanuele Conte,
Professor of Legal History and Department Director of Legal History and Theory,
at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
"Record Level Selectivity for C≥2 Products in Strong Acid on Cu Electrodes Provided by N-Heterocycle Organic Additives."
Gavin Heim,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise
Bin Zhang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Associate Member of the Broad Institute, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Professorship,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachussetts Institute of Technolocy,
4:07pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Fine-regolith production on asteroids controlled by rock porosity
Saverio Cambioni,
Crosby Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
MIT,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
9:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Targeting Fusion Proteins of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
Claudia Jette,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Constructing Wadge classes and describing Wadge quasi-orders
Raphaël Carroy,
University of Turin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Precision Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar
Ingrid Stairs,
Professor,
Division of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
First-Principles Many-Body Theory and Quantum Dynamics for Materials in Quantum Information Science
4:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"Self-organized morphogenesis of a stem-cell derived human neural tube"
Eyal Karbrun,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Physics, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of California Santa Barbara,
11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Structural Computing: Leveraging Mechanics for Information Processing
Phil R. Buskohl,
Research Mechanical Engineer,
Functional Materials Division,
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Learning Under Requirements
Luiz Chamon,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"How Runx Transcription Factors Instruct Early Thymic T-cell Development"
Boyoung Shin,
(Rothenburg group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Impact of Biophysical Constraints on the Mutational Tolerance of Integral Membrane Proteins
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Design & Engineering of Macromolecules for Energy and Environmental Sciences
4:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar - Tzahi Cohen-Karni
Online and In-Person Event
Bioelectronics with nanocarbons – forming I/O with tissue and cells
Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Associate Professor,
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Aqueous Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry and Airborne Disease
Alan Gu,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
SLE, energy duality, and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles
Yilin Wang,
MSRI, Berkeley,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:15pm
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7:45pm
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