Institute Calendar
Spring 2021-2022
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
11:00am
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11:45am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Deep denoising for scientific discovery
Carlos Fernandez-Granda,
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Science and Center for Data Science,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Machine Learning for Cosmic Explosions: Algorithms to Applications
Edo Berger,
Professor of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Rapid Breast Cancer Pathology Tissue Evaluation Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Diana Mojahed,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A nutrient relay sustains subtropical ocean productivity
Mukund Gupta,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Discovery of Character: Reimagining "Literature and Science" circa 1800
James Chandler,
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shining Light on Chemistry
Javier Read de Alaniz,
Professor,
Associate Director of the California Nanosystems Institute,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England
Zach Brown,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Michigan,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 26th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Self-heating of HEMT low-noise amplifiers in liquid cryogenic environments and the limits of microwave noise performance"
Anthony Ardizzi,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"Physics of Living Matter: From Molecule to Embryo"
Sebastian Streichan,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Hanieh Fattahi, MPI
Spectro-microscopy at Extreme Limits
Hanieh Fattahi,
Head of Research Group,
Femtosecond Fieldoscopy,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Autonomous Temporal Understanding and State Estimation during Robot-Assisted Surgery"
Ida Qin,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Advancing Sustainability: Small Molecules and Polymers from Biomass and Plastics Waste
Thomas H. Epps, III,
Allan & Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor,
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar - Giovanni Traverso
Online and In-Person Event
Biomedical Device Development for Gastrointestinal Applications
Giovanni Traverso, MB, BChir, PhD,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Present Bias in Consumption-Saving Models: A Tractable Continuous-Time Approach
Peter Maxted,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Lipidomic hydrogen stable isotope probing for quantification of slow microbial growth in situ
Tristan Caro,
Graduate student,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Harden M. McConnell Lecture
"A New Phase for Structural Biology"
Dame Carol Robinson, DBE FRS FMedSci FRSC,
Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery at Oxford,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Many-body theory in the Quantum Information era
Matthew Fisher,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Online Event
A data driven reduced order model for the wave operator and its application to velocity estimation
Liliana Borcea,
Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:45pm
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Friday, May 27th, 2022
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Foundations and applications of single-cell RNA sequencing
Ali (Sina) Booeshaghi,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Firewalls from wormholes
Zhenbin Yang,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
2D topological order on a hollow thin sphere and a non-Clifford gate without magic state distillation
Arpit Dua,
UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Black Hole Populations in Globular Clusters: Observational Validation, Modeling Uncertainties, and Massive Mergers
Newlin Weatherford,
Riedel Family Graduate Fellow,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Poroviscoelasticity and fracture in gelatin-based hydrogels
Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chem Club Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Selective Catalytic Isomerization Reactions.
Alison Wendlandt,
Green C. D. Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, May 28th, 2022
8:00am
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5/31
11:59pm
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Monday, May 30th, 2022
All Day
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Trustworthy Learning of Mechanical Systems, and Stiefel Optimization with Applications to Transformer and Optimal Transport
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
Monotonicity theorems for integer-valued fields and delocalization in two-dimensions
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Nonlinear interactions of waves from distant sources
John Anderson,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Maria Camarca,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
Michael Greklek-McKeon,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Eigenvarieties, P-adic L-functions and L-invariants
Mladen Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Université de Lille,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Social Interactions with Endogenous Group Formation
Shuyang Sheng,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
8:00am
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6/3
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Iteration problems in Symbolic Dynamics
Adrian Mathias,
Université de la Réunion,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Vat Photopolymerization Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials: From Batteries to Metals and Alloys
Max Saccone,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galaxies at the Extreme
Laura Ferrarese,
Principal Research Officer,
National Research Council of Canada,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Observing nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality from space
Sally Pusede,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Popular Personal Financial Advice
James Choi,
Professor of Finance,
Yale School of Management,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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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
"Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors for Detecting Ketamine and Other Rapidly Acting Antidepressants in Zebrafish"
Zachary Blumenfeld,
(Lester group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Visualizing Protein Machines in Action
Wah Chiu,
Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professor and Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
On some conjectures of Talagrand on suprema of positive selector processes and empirical processes
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Applied $\ell$-adic cohomology II: Bilinear sums of Kloosterman sums and applications
Philippe Michel,
EPFL/TAN,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Photolysis and Photochemical Oxidation of Atmospheric Monoterpene Organic Nitrates"
Nga Lee (Sally) Ng,
Professor,
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Earth & Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology,