Institute Calendar
Spring 2022-2023
Friday, April 28th, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Cryo-ET Reveals Molecular Details of Multi-Megadalton Bacterial Protein Complexes
Przemysław Dutka,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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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
Some comments on modular invariance in higher dimensions
Edgar Shaghoulian,
UC Santa Cruz,
11:00am
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3:45pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
Neuroscience and the Principles of Evolution
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy
Misha Khodak,
PhD Student,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Leveraging Ambient Radio Noise for Passive Radar Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial and Space Environment
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Visual Culture Event: Campus Walking Tour
THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY
Wendy Cheng,
Associate Professor of American Studies,
Scripps College,
Becky Nicolaides,
Research Affiliate,
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
Yvette Saavedra,
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Catalysis: Strategies for C-C Bond Formation.
Rachel J. Baker,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Manthiram Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Unique features in quantum oscillations of Kagome metal CsV3Sb5
Prof. Lu Li,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, April 29th, 2023
9:30am
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11:30am
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Sunday, April 30th, 2023
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 1st, 2023
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanophore Strategies for the Development of Polymers with Mechanically Gated Responsive Behavior
Ross Barber,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Icy Landscapes - how ice influences sedimentary processes
Irina Overeem,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geological Science, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Multicontinuum Homogenization and Applications
Yalchin Efendiev,
Ewing-Mobil Chair in Computational Science and Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Scientific Computation,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Evaporation Barrier for Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies
Javier F. Acevedo,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Topological two-band electron-hole superconductors with d-wave symmetry: a possible application to magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene
Carlos Sa De Melo,
Georgia Tech,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Josephson junction arrays as a platform for topological phases of matter
Omri Lesser,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Master Equation in Mean Field Games
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dimers and embeddings
Marianna Russkikh,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biology Seminar | Paul Denis Thomas - Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 4 pm
Big Knowledge in Biology: using phylogenetics and data science to create a human gene "functionome"
Paul D Thomas, PhD,
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences,
Division of Bioinformatics,
Keck School of Medicine - University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Diversity in Notch ligand-receptor signaling interactions
Rachael Kuintzle,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Staring at the Sun to Better See Exoplanets/ The Search for Water Worlds with Palomar Observatory
Mike Mckeon,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Ryan Rubenzahl,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special ACM Seminar
Asymptotic Stability in a Free Boundary PDE Model of Active Matter
Leonid Berlyand,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Donations and Dollars: Characterizing the Policy Views of Donors and the Affluent
Brandice Canes-Wrone,
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
8:00am
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5/9
11:59pm
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
See event detail for location
Quantum thermal state preparation
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen,
Brandao Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Learning and Control of Dynamical Systems
Ali Sahin Lale,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Critical JT Gravity
Alicia Castro,
High Energy Physics Department,
Radboud University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
Simple Behavior from Complex Galaxies
George Helou,
Research Professor of Physics; Executive Director of IPAC,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
The Mechanophore Hypothesis
Jeffrey Moore,
Stanley O. Ikenberry Research Professor, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor,
University of Illinois Urbana-Chambaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Untangling aerosol-cloud interactions with machine learning
Duncan Watson-Parris,
UCSD/Scripps,