Institute Calendar
Spring 2024-2025
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: PhD Thesis Defense
Hierarchical Control: Constructive Theory and Application to Legged Robots
Noel Csomay-Shanklin,
Graduate Student,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Computational Methods for Nucleic Acid Structure Prediction and G Protein-Coupled Receptor Mechanism Investigation
Marta Gonzalvo I Ulla,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
A Conversation on AI and Governance in Elections
Betsy Sinclair,
Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations, the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, and Chair of the Political Science Department,
Washington University in St. Louis,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Physical Instabilities and the phase of the Euclidean Path integral
Victor Ivo,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Kilometer-scale material heterogeneities relevant to earthquake generation on the Japan subduction plate interface
Yihe Huang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detector operators in quantum gravity
Murat Kologlu,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Well-posedness for the Schrodinger maps equation with initial data small in a Besov space
Benjamin Dodson,
Department of Mathematics,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantum Black Hole Entropy from a Localization Integral
Matthew Heydeman,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ultrafast Quadratic Nonlinear Dynamics and Soliton Formation in Parametric Amplifiers and Oscillators
Robby Gray,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Joshua Winn,
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Harnessing microbiomes in a changing climate
Steve Allison,
University of California Irvine,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploiting automatic image processing and in-situ transmission electron microscopy to understand the stability of supported nanoparticles
Erich Stach,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter; Scientific Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology,
University of Pennsylvania,
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Theory of Electoral Turnout Based on Free-Riding Aversion
Laurent Bouton,
Professor of Economics,
Georgetown University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 29th, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A non-ergodic ground motion model for the Groningen, Netherlands: Merging physics-based and recorded data
Grigorios (Greg) Lavrentiadis,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Synthetic Protein Circuits: From Fundamentals to Therapeutics"
Shiyu Xia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision QCD and Parton Shower matching for LHC event simulations
Christian Biello,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics, Boltzmannstrasse 8, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany,
12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Dynamic Safety Under Uncertainty: A Control Barrier Function Approach
Ryan Cosner,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Importance of Physiological Temperature in Biomedical and Biophysical Research
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
CANCELED: Colloidal Science and Soft Matter Physics: The Uncredited Co-Authors of Every Microbial Biofilm
Patrick Secor,
Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Using meandering rivers to study the present and future carbon fluxes from Arctic landscapes
Emily Geyman,
Graduate Student Researcher,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Xiaodong Xu,
Boeing Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Human Energy: A Conversation about Art, Power, and Resource Extraction
Jessica Segall,
Lecturer in Visual Culture and Spring 2025 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Brian Jacobson,
Professor of Visual Culture,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2025
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
Dan Kapec,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics
Haifeng Xu,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
To reset, or not to reset -- that is the question
Gyorgy Geher,
Riverlane,
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Multielectron Redox in Lithium-Rich, Industrial-Element Sulfides for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
Eshaan Patheria,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modelling the kilonovae from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: From Photospheric to Nebular Phase
2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Building closed-loop frameworks for AI-guided protein design
Alec Lourenço,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the topology of the manifolds with positive intermediate curvature
Xuan Yao,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Investigations of a Photoelectrocatalytic PCET Mediator
Catherine G. Romero,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Saturday, May 31st, 2025
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Sunday, June 1st, 2025
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Monday, June 2nd, 2025
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Hunterine A and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Kuroshine A
Elliot Hicks,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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SOIL Seminar
Developing phytoremediation and biofortification strategies with alternative crops in naturally contaminated soils
Dr. Gary Bañuelos,
USDA - Agricultural Research Service,
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Hoimin Jung,
Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanisms of Pharmacological and Cellular Regulators of Mitophagy
William Rosencrans,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,