Institute Calendar
Spring 2021-2022
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
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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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12:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Design & Engineering of Macromolecules for Energy and Environmental Sciences
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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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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Friday, April 8th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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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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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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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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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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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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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,