Institute Calendar
Week of April 20, 2025
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Monday, April 21st, 2025
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RSI Research Seminar
A Digital Twin of the Electrical Distribution Grid
Yiheng Xie,
Graduate Student, Low Group,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching: Giving and receiving feedback
Clara Seo,
Chemistry Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Metasomatic diamond-forming fluids in the lithospheric mantle - sources and ages
Yaakov Weiss,
Senior Lecturer Institute of Earth Sciences,
The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Lionel Christiaen
Regulation of deterministic development
Lionel Christiaen,
Director and Group Leader,
Michael Sars Centre,
University of Bergen,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading and Discussion
Jenny Factor,
Lecturer in Poetry,
Caltech,
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
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Biology Seminar - Jonathan Weissman
Epigenetic engineering as a tool for discovery and therapeutics.
Jonathan Weissman,
Professor,
Biology,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
The Mechanism Behind the Implicit Biases of Large Learning Rates: Edge of Stability, Balancing, and Catapult
12:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exploring New Frontiers in Planetary Science: From Magma Oceans to Liquid-Water Worlds
Renyu Hu,
Research Scientist V,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On Plausible Counterfactual Explanations in XAI
Jiji Zhang,
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Declarations of Independents: Open-Ended Survey Responses and the Nature of Non-Identification
Paul Kellstedt,
Professor,
Department of Political Science, Bush School of Government and Public Service,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Ionic Compatibilization of Plastics to Reduce Environmental Impacts (general lecture)
Rachel Segalman,
Edward Noble Kramer Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Medical Engineering Defense, Anne Kil
Engineering and Computational Tools for Salivary Biomedicine
Anne Kil, Ph.D. Candidate,
Pachter Lab,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetime
Hare Krishna,
University of Texas, Austin,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Graphings of Arithmetical Equivalence Relations
Tyler Arant,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
From Tectonic Stress Field to Surface Deformation: A Global Analysis
Boontigan Kuhasubpasin,
Graduate Student,
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Anaerobic Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles
- Internal Event
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
GXN's Impact on JXZ
Jonas Zmuidzinas,
Merle Kingsley Professor of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Soil moisture teleconnections and summertime temperature variability in the western United States
David Battisti,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate
A Short History of (the Theory of) Everything
Alex Blum,
Research Group Leader,
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An "efficient" classical algorithm for some 3-manifold TQFT invariants
Colleen Delaney,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Repression and Autocratic Consolidation
Livio Di Lonardo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Social and Political Sciences,
Bocconi University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Using Bioinspired Polypeptoids to Understand How Chain Shape Influences Self-assembly and to Design New Photoresists (technical lecture)
Rachel Segalman,
Edward Noble Kramer Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, April 24th, 2025
10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Illuminating the complex mechanics of a simple breath
Mona Eskandari,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine's multidisciplinary BREATHE Center,
University of California, Riverside,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Understanding the oncogenic transcription factor Lmo2 in its native role during T cell development
Samantha Chang,
Graduate Student,
Rothenberg Group,
12:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Uniform bounds for degrees of maps from curves to hyperbolic varieties
Jackson Morrow,
Mathematics Department,
University of North Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons: What You Can Do
Fred Lamb,
UIUC,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, April 25th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Acoustic Radiation in Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers: Deciphering Linear Dynamics
Gregory Stroot,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal Manifolds from Topological Gauging and Continuous SymTFTs
Ho Tat Lam,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Control, Readout, and Entanglement of Molecular Qubits
Lewis Picard,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, Samuel Solomon
Generalizing wearable affective intelligence
Samuel Solomon, Ph.D. Candidate,
Gao Research Group,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense: Challenges to Defending the United States
Professor Frederick K. Lamb,
Research Professor of Physics,
Program on Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Department of Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The ocean carbon sink: From global budgets to mCDR additionality
Galen McKinley,
Professor,
Columbia Climate School,
Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Positive scalar curvature on trivial and nontrivial circle bundles
Aditya Kumar,
Department of Mathematics,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Photodriven Approaches to Sm Catalysis
Drew Tarnopol,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Machine-learning observed and simulated ground motions for engineering applications
Domniki Asimaki,
Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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