Institute Calendar
Winter 2021-2022
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the Higgs's secrets to unlock new physics
Caterina Vernieri,
SLAC,
Friday, February 4th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The O(n) and S_Q Conformal Field Theories in 2 dimensions
Hubert Saleur,
University of Southern California,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Numerical PDEs: Fast Rate, Scaling Law and Minimax Optimalit
2:00pm
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Are mesoscale effects needed to predict condensed-phase explosive performance?
Online Event
Scott Jackson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Eichler-Shimura relations
Si Ying Lee,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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MedE Ph.D. Defense: Haeri Park Hanania
Online Event
Nanophotonic application to biomedical devices
Haeri Park Hanania,
Medical Engineering PhD Student,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Online Event
Abelian Varieties not Isogenous to Jacobians over global fields
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Evaporative Transmission Spectroscopy at Close-in Exoplanet and Exomoon Systems
Apurva Oza,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Unlocking the CMS Experiment to Catch Long-lived Particles
Cristian Peña,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Alkylations of Anilines by Racemic TertiaryElectrophiles: Synthesis and Mechanism
Hyungdo Cho,
Graduate Student (Fu Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The time-like minimal surface equation in Minkowski space: low regularity solutions
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Martin Cordiner,
Research Associate,
Astrochemistry and Planetary Science,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
4:00pm
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6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Our experience with tensor network methods in magnetic resonance
Ilya Kuprov,
University of Southampton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable combinatorics in hyperfinite graphs
Matthew Bowen,
McGill University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Galaxy Evolution with Space-Based Spectroscopy: From Hubble to JWST and Beyond
Casey Papovich,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Supercooling super-droplets: on particle-based modelling of immersion freezing
Sylwester Arabas,
UIUC/Jagiellonian University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Reading Between the Reflections: Order, disorder, transport and functionality
Jessica Krogstad,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Design of Solids and Surfaces
Dr. Megan Jackson,
Department of Chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Eleonora Patacchini,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Professor of International Political Economy, Cornell University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special SIAM Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Novel design and analysis of generalized FEMs based on locally optimal spectral approximations
Chupeng Ma,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Numerical Analysis and UQ,
Heidelberg University,
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Scaling of Triggered Seismicity and Permeability Evolution in the Subsurface – A Key Need in the Energy Transition
Derek Elsworth,
Professor,
Departments of Energy and Mineral Engineering and of Geosciences and the Center for Geomechanics, Geofluids, and Geohazards.,
Penn State,
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
From Trash to Treasure: Advancing the Heterogeneous Catalytic Deconstruction and Upcycling of Waste Polyolefins
Julie Rorrer,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Mechanism of G-Protein Activation by G-Protein-Coupled Receptors and Therapeutics"
Dr. Amirhossein Mafi,
Goddard Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino and Dark Radiation Properties from Cosmic Datasets
Marilena Loverde,
University of Washington,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: MaxCut, Spin Glass, and Beyond
Leo Zhou,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Substrate-Selective Control of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Reveals the Untapped Enzymology of Exosite Inhibition
Dr. Juan Pablo Maianti,
Co-founder, Exo Therapeutics,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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