Institute Calendar
Spring 2022-2023
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
OPTICAL AURORA ON THE ICY GALILEAN SATELLITES/CHARACTERIZING HYDRATION CARRIER PHASES INALTERED ROCKS OF JEZERO CRATER WESTERN FANAND FLOOR UNITS WITH SHERLOC ON MARS 2020
Zac Milby,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Yu Yu Phua,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Scalable Fabrication of Micro-Architected Water Filtering Membranes
Andrew Friedman,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The role of network structure in the diffusion of investment decisions
Wade Hann-Caruthers,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
8:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Physics-based and data-driven computational models of inelastic deformations
Eric Ocegueda,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
9:00am
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10:00am
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Alessio Tamborini
A Novel Approach to Cardiac Health Assessment Using a Redesign of the Brachial Cuff Device
Alessio Tamborini,
MedE Ph.D. Student,
Medical Engineering. Advised by Professor Mory Gharib,
California Instittute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Using dynamic bias arrangement to handle the idiosyncrasies of photonic quantum computing
Mihir Pant,
PsiQuantum,
Naomi Nickerson,
PsiQuantum,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
A new paradigm for computing spectra, pseudospectra, and continuous spectra of infinite-dimensional operators
12:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
The Magnitude of a Metric Space
Mark Meckes,
Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics,
Case Western Reserve University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Chasing Ghosts: Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to High-Energy Neutrinos
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
MINION floats: Robotic fleets to observe the ocean biological carbon pump
Melissa Omand,
University of Rhode Island,
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Humanistic Knowledge and the Science of Learning
Elaine Auyoung, Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020
Julia Cage,
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure),
Department of Economics,
Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po),
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online and In-Person Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
8:00am
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6/9
11:59pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Flow, transport, and mixing limited processes in confined & heterogeneous media
Pietro De Anna,
Professor,
Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE),
University of Lausanne (UNIL),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inevitable Large non-Gaussianity from Curvaton Models
Jackie Lodman,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Uncertainty and Decentralization: Two Themes in an Energy Transformation
Lucien D. Werner,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Interaction Specificity in Protein Short Linear Motifs
Amy Keating,
Jay A. Stein Professor of Biology,
Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microfluidics for quantitative and high-throughput biophysics, biochemistry, and single-cell biology
Prof. Polly Fordyce,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics,
Department of Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
What can titanium isotopes tell us about plate subduction during the Hadean-Archean?
Sarah Aarons,
Assistant Professor,
Geosciences, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Feynman and Computation
Tony Hey,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK,
John Preskill,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, May 26th, 2023
9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structure and Mechanism of the Human ER Membrane Protein Complex
Giovani Pinton Tomaleri,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Kallen-Lehman representations in de Sitter spacetime
Zimo Sun,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A Chiral Light-matter Interface with Superconducting Qubits
Chaitali Joshi,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mirhosseini Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A New Supertranslation-Invariant Angular Momentum Flux in Gravitational Scattering
Massimo Porrati,
New York University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Acoustic Biomolecules for Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
Bill Ling,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inclined Planetary Systems due to Secular Resonances in Dispersing Protoplanetary Disks
J.J. Zanazzi,
51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of California Berkeley,,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics and performance of wind-energy systems in unsteady flow conditions
Nathaniel Wei,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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