Institute Calendar
Spring 2021-2022
Friday, April 8th, 2022
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Does bottom boundary layer turbulence drive deep-ocean upwelling? First insights from the BLT Recipes experiment
Alberto Naveira Garabato,
Professor of Physical Oceanography,
University of Southampton,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The S-matrix bootstrap in two and four dimensions: primal and dual problem
Martin Kruczenski,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Dani Kiyasseh,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Singlet Fission in Bipentacene Coordination Complexes
Ryan Ribson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Stable Self-organization Arises for Schooling Swimmers Through Hydrodynamic Interactions
Melike Kurt,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Southampton, United Kingdom,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Motion and monodromy
Nalini Joshi,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
The University of Sydney,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Developmental Biology Seminar
1. "Reconstructing embryos with stem cells - the principles of self-organization" 2. "Precursor-Progeny Relationships: Building Maps and Organoids"
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,
Caltech,
Nils Lindstrom,
USC,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Was Einstein Right?
- Public Event
Sunday, April 10th, 2022
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Monday, April 11th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Algebraic twists of automorphic L-functions
Philippe Michel,
EPFL,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Autonomous Mission-Driven Robots in Extreme Environments"
Amanda Bouman,
Graduate Student,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Dynamics of Predictions and Decision-Making
Tijana Zrnic,
PhD candidate,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Dynamics of Predictions and Decision-Making
Tijana Zrnic,
PhD. candidate,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The axion-photon coupling and grand unified theories
Mario Reig,
Oxford University,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Observational Clues about Giant Planet Formation: from Eccentricities to Confounding Starspots
Sarah Blunt,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bilateral trade under no subsidies and stochastic mechanisms; Multi-trader pairwise exchange with minimal subsidies
Jernej Copic,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Consciousness Seminar April 2022 (Virtual)
"The Role of Top-Down Feedback in Conscious Perception"
Veith Weilnhammer,
Charité University Medicine Berlin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic Quaternary and Tetrasubstituted Stereogenic Centers
Tyler Fulton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What to Know About GWs for Those in the Know
Rana Adhikari,
Professor of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Opening the blackbox of ‘policy engagement': things every scientist should know about how academic research is used within environmental policymaking
Roxana Shafiee,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Does Harold Zurcher Have Time Separable Preferences?
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: The Rhetoric of Chance in Times of Pandemic
Online and In-Person Event
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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8:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
Art in Data: From Self-Tracking to Mass Migration
Stephen Cartwright,
Artist,
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Shuman Xia,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Continental carbonate systems in extreme environments of South America - assessment of organic and inorganic controls on mineral precipitation
Leonardo Fadel Cury,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geology,
Federal University of Paraná,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Matthew P.A. Fisher,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 15th, 2022
8:00am
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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
Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFT
Scott Collier,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Tuning Active Sites in Catalytic Nanomaterials through Collodial Synthesis
Christina W. Li,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Deterministic Generation of 2D Photonic Cluster States by a Single Quantum Emitter
Vinicius Ferreira,
Graduate Student, Painter Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics-Inspired Coarsening for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows
Perry Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 16th, 2022
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, April 18th, 2022
9:30am
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10:30am
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INQNET Seminar
Online Event
Thulium Doped Garnets for Quantum Repeaters and Optical Quantum Memory
Jake Davidson,
QuTech, Delft University of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Coupling Reactions
Travis DeLano,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Surprising and Dark Implications of a Supersymmetric Gravity Sector
Clifford Burgess,
Perimeter Institute and McMaster University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
A multiplicity formula of K-types
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Shaping Extrasolar Systems with Giant Planets
Laetitia Rodet,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning & Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Foundations of Induction
Marcus Hutter,
Honorary Professor,
Research School of Computer Science,
Australian National University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A small cap decoupling for the twisted cubic
Hongki Jung,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University Bloomington,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the competition between advection and vortex stretching
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Danica Adams,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Qicheng Zhang,
Graudate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
All Along the Watchtower: Defense Lines and the Origins of Russian Serfdom
Andrea Matranga,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Chapman University,