Institute Calendar
Week of November 14, 2021
Sunday, November 14th, 2021
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
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In Conversation with Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95), 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
Online Event
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The unbounded denominators conjecture
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Synthesis of Diverse Families of Organic Compounds via Nickel-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Dylan J. Freas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A compactly supported motivic Euler characteristic via the Hochschild complex
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Physics-Informed Machine Learning
George Em Karniadakis,
The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor,
Applied Mathematics and Engineering,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders
Cari Cesarotti,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Symmetry, Bifurcation and the Landscape Geometry of a Model Shallow Neural Network
Michael Field,
Research Associate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:15pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar with Dr. R. Lee Penn
Online Event
Technical Talk and Personal Story with Dr. R. Lee Penn
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Raman Spectroscopy for Planetary Science: Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
Joby Razzell Hollis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Planetary Sciences,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Gender, Electoral Incentives, and Crisis Response: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors
Clemence Tricaud,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Concentration for Trotter error
Anthony (Chi-Fang) Chen,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Descriptive complexity of Banach spaces and generic objects
Michal Doucha,
Department of Abstract Analysis,
Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Towards a Better Understanding of Low-mass Galaxies Beyond the Local Group
Shany Danieli,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemo-mechanics of methane migration through deep marine sediments
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Real-time examination of shock-induced structural phase transitions
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches to characterize avalanches and dunes across scales
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic Quaternary and Tetrasubstituted Stereogenic Centers"
Tyler J. Fulton,
Stoltz Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Using MicroCT to improve the reliability of cosmogenic 3He exposure dating
Florian Hofmann,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Electrically charged skyrmions and superconductivity
Michael Zaletel,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, November 19th, 2021
All Day
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Caltech-Carnegie Joint Research Workshop on Life Sciences and Global Ecology
Online Event
Caltech-Carnegie Joint Research Workshop on Life Sciences and Global Ecology
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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
w(1+infinty) and the Symmetries of Nature
Andrew Strominger,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Coherent light-matter interfaces with highly-excited thermal atoms
Ran Finkelstein,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
The Power of Imperfection
Yan-Yan Hu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Florida State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Gaussian process modeling of groundwater level and land subsidence in California's Central Valley
Anshuman Pradhan,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Microstructural effects during fatigue and fracture of additively manufactured metals
Online Event
John Lambros,
Donald B. Willett Professor of Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
The Enigmatic Corona: Powerhouse of Accreting Black Holes
- Public Event