Institute Calendar
Spring 2023-2024
Friday, May 17th, 2024
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Observations and Simulations of Small-scale Convection beneath the Oceanic Plates
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024
7:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, May 19th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Manipulating Phase Transitions and Porosity: From Solid Refrigerants to Microporous Water.
Jarad Mason,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Leveraging the ΦX174 Lysis Protein to Study MraY Structure, Function, and Regulation
Karen Orta,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Electron Beam Driven Plasmas and the Quest for Precise Control in Materials Processing
Scott G. Walton, PhD,
Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Novel perspectives on the water cycle and critical zone from the late Quaternary through the present
Tyler Huth,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Ribbon concordances and slice obstructions: experiments and examples
Sherry Gong,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Temporal entanglement and complexity of quantum many-body dynamics
Dmitry Abanin,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Group actions, algebra up to homotopy, and flavors of commutativity
Mike Hill,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
10:00am
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2:00pm
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10:45am
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12:15pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces
Christy Landes,
Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Thermophysical modeling of (15) Eunomia with ALMA data" & "From spectra to mineralogy: a remote sensing approach to Earth's desert dust sources"
Yu Yu Phua,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Abigail Keebler,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Kathleen Rockland
Axons and Brain Architecture
Dr. Kathleen Rockland,
Research Professor,
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:45am
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12:15pm
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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
A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes
Walker Melton,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Studying nonlinear dynamics using polynomial optimization
David Goluskin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Victoria,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Exploring Nature's Fingerprints with Isotopic Distributions
Timothy Csernica,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Stellar Processes Around Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Centers
Re'em Sari,
Professor,
Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science,
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiphase chemistry of atmospheric brown carbon
Christopher Hennigan,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An Enriched Category Theory of Language
Tai-Danae Bradley,
Sandbox AQ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From functional oxides to qubits, how electron ptychography is opening new avenues to characterize materials
James LeBeau,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
8:00am
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6/7
11:59pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Auctions, preferences, and wearable robots: the development of meaningful exoskeletons and robotic prostheses
Elliott J Rouse,
Associate Professor,
Neurobionics Lab; Depts. of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Havellockate and Investigation into Chiral Pd Enolates: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Application
Melinda Tsam Mang Chan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"CryoEM structures of mechanosensitive channel of large conductance"
Xiang Feng,
Research Specialist,
Rees Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
From the early Universe to colliders: Low-scale leptogenesis
Yannis Georis,
Louvain University,