Institute Calendar
Spring 2023-2024
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Choose Your Moments: Peer Review And Scientific Risk Taking
Josh Graff Zivin,
Professor; Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations; Director, Cowhey Center on Global Transformation; UC San Diego,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Novel Reactivity and Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Xiaoyu Dan Tong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Search for Kerr from Multipole Moments on the Worldline
Trevor Scheopner,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
On False Positive Error
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Invariant uniformization and reducibility
Michael Wolman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave
Selma de Mink,
Scientific Director,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changing Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns over the North Pacific
Clara Deser,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiota interactions
Pamela V. Chang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev,
Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Risk Aversion and Insurance Propensity
Fabio Maccheroni,
Full Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Università Bocconi,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
8:00am
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5/19
2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
How "to see a world in a grain of sand"?
Rouslan Krechetnikov,
Professor,
Mathematical & Statistical Sciences,
University of Alberta,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Model T
Joshua Hausman,
Associate Professor of Public Policy,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
John Brewer,
Faculty Associate,
History Department,
Harvard University and Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
AMPK: energy sensor and central guardian of mitochondrial homeostasis
Reuben Shaw,
Professor,
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Bio-inspired Systems for Sustainability and Environmental Remediation
Ariel Furst,
Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering,
MIT,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture
Clean Electricity and the Path to Net Zero: Methods and Insights
Jesse D. Jenkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Jacob Robinson
Minimally invasive brain interfaces using magnetic materials
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the arithmetic nature of special values of Dirichlet L-functions
Vesselin Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 17th, 2024
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Impact of Interfacial Chemistry on Corrosion, Sensing, and Catalytic Properties of Materials
John Evans,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks
Ronak Soni,
University of Cambridge,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Games under the Tiered Deferred Acceptance Mechanism
Jiarui Xie,
Visiting Student,
UC Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling
Matthew Yao,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang
Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang,
Ph.D. Candidate (Med-EE Joint Track),
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Caltech MEMS Lab,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
To infinity and beyond: the hyperboloidal framework in Black-hole perturbation theory
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Overview of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M and Finding the Origin of Heat Streaks on Hypersonic Canonical Geometries
Ivett A. Leyva, Ph.D., P.E.,
Department Head, College of Engineering Excellence Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica
Michael Willis,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Crystalline Rhombohedral Graphene
Long Ju,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Enantioselective Intramolecular Reactions of Palladium Enolates.
Christian Strong,
Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,