Institute Calendar
Week of October 3, 2021
Monday, October 4th, 2021
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The SMEFT program at the LHC
Ilaria Brivio,
Universität Heidelberg,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning in the Presence of Strategic Agents
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
8:30am
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Malek Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Mateo Diaz
Complexity, conditioning, and saddle avoidance in nonsmooth optimization
Mateo Diaz,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and its Consequences
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Juno at Jupiter
David Stevenson,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science, Emeritus,
Divison of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University)
Online Event
Responsive soft matter via 3D multi-material printing
Jennifer A. Lewis,
Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences; Wyss Professor for Biologically Inspired Engineering in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
9:30am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction
Ciarán Ryan-Anderson,
Honeywell Quantum Solutions,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A Novel Framework for Higher Loop Witten Diagrams
Aidan Hederschee,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Astrophysical Probes of the Microphysical Nature of the Dark Matter
Kathryn Zurek,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Department of Physics, Math and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Talk 1. Interactions between ocean currents and surface waves. Talk 2. Destructive Interference: Potential of Frequency Combs for Future Greenhouse Gas Monitoring
Bia Villas Boas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Newton Nguyen,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Using Density Functional Theory to Help Solve Material Mysteries
Ronald Cohen,
Senior Staff Scientist,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
Thursday, October 7th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum minimal surfaces from quantum error correction
Geoffrey Penington,
UC Berkeley,
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Mechanics of Slow Slip
Kyungjae Im,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Conditional Guide RNAs for Cell-Selective Regulation of CRISPR/Cas
Heyun Li,
Pierce Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Secret Life of Introns
Tracy Johnson,
Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Black holes, information and wormholes
Geoffrey Penington,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar -(POSTPONED until 10/22)
Online Event
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 8th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Higher lattice gauge theories
Blazej Ruba,
Jagellonian University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a rare-earth ion qubit
Andrei Ruskuc,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
On the competition between advection and vortex stretching
Jiajie Chen,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Interpreting Gravitational Waves from Core-collapse Events Using Supernova Simulations
Michael Pajkos,
Graduate Student, University Distinguished Fellow,
Astrophysics and High Performance Computing,
Michigan State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Convection: from small plumes to large coherent turbulent structures
Online Event
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Houston,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation with polyhedral and Y-shaped singularities
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Koopman-based Learning and Control of Agile Robotic Systems"
Carl Folkestad,
Graduate Student,
Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
Saturday, October 9th, 2021