Institute Calendar
Winter 2022-2023
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
8:00am
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3/10
11:59pm
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9:00am
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4:30pm
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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
Multiphysics Simulations Using Phase-Field Modeling
Hector Gomez,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
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 Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"A selectivity filter in the EMC limits protein mislocalization to the ER"
Masami Hazu,
Graduate Student,
Voorhees Group,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Phase Separation in Biological Cells: lessons from and for physics
Samuel Safran,
The Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Professorial Chair,
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-adic Artin formalism for the triple product of modular forms
Aprameyo Pal,
Harish-Chandra Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Transport in 2D Superconductors and Semiconductors
Jeanie Lau,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Pinocchio's Ancestry: a Social and Cultural History of Automata in the North Italian Renaissance
Cristiano Zanetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the History of Science,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 24th, 2023
9:30am
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2/25
4:00pm
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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
Coupled minimal models revisited
Conor Behan,
Oxford 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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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computing over the rainbow: from scalable qumodes to scalable Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubits
Olivier Pfister,
University of Virginia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On the modeling of black hole ringdown: quasi-normal modes and graybody factors
Naritaka Oshita,
Special Postdoctoral Researcher,
Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS),
RIKEN,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Theoretical guarantees for the shifted QR algorithm
Jorge Garza Vargas,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 25th, 2023
10:00am
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 26th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 27th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Solution-Phase Routes to Inorganic Solid-State Materials"
Alina Schimpf,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Connecting the disk dispersal phase to magnetic morphology-driven stellar spin-down
Kristina Monsch,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Swarm-Based Gradient Descent Method for Non-Convex Optimization
Eitan Tadmor,
Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
SMEFT, loops and all that
Michael Trott,
Neils Bohr Institute and Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation: What, why, how, when?
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
The many phases of the cell
Krishna Shrinivas, Ph.D.,
NSF-Simons Fellow of Quantitative Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Clopen type semigroups of actions on 0-dimensional compact spaces
Julien Melleray,
Université Lyon 1,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin waves meet superconductivity
Nicholas R. Poniatowski,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Machiel Blok, Univ of Rochester
Multi-level quantum information processing with Superconducting Circuits
Machiel Blok,
Assistant Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of Rochester,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Image Machines/Computation's Womb
Sarah Pourciau,
Assistant Professor of German,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies
Michihiro Kandori,
Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Economics,
University of Tokyo,
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Oxidation and Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions and Application to Natural Product Synthesis
Sara Dibrell,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,