Institute Calendar
Week of May 15, 2022
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, May 16th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Shanice Webster,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biology,
Duke University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Unravelling binary and multiple star formation
Rajika Lakmali Kuruwit,
University of Copenhagen,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Rheological Characterization of Polymer Additives for Mist Control and Drag Reduction
Red Lhota,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyls: Mechanistic Studies and Catalysis for the Synthesis of Functionalized Polyolefins
Shouyan Xiong,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ravinder Dahiya
Online and In-Person Event
High-Performance Printed Electronics for Robots and Interactive Systems
Professor Ravinder Dahiya, FIEEE, FRSE, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and EPSRC Research Fellow,
Electronics and Nanoengineering,
James Watt School of Engineering,
University of Glasgow, UK,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation
Revising Our Teaching: Three Questions to Guide the Next Course
Joseph Lampert, PhD,
Interim Director,
Center for Teaching & Learning,
University of Chicago,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Eric Ambrose,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Adversarial Machine Learning and Instrumental Variables for Flexible Causal Modeling
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Two Analogues of the Euclidean Spherical Maximal Function on Heisenberg Groups
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta,
research staff scientist,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecular design blueprints: materials and catalysts from new simulation and machine learning tools
Heather J Kulik,
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Benjamin Idini,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
Yayaati Chachan,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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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
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
New York University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Strong ergodicity phenomena for Bernoulli shifts of bounded algebraic dimension
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Optimization of Distribution Power Networks: From Single-Phase to Multi-Phase
Fengyu Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of Sagittarius A*
Geoff Bower,
Research Astronomer,
ASIAA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Acceleration of tropical cyclone development by cloud-radiative feedbacks
Allison Wing,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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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
Online Event
Recursive Differencing for Estimating Semiparametric Models
Roger Klein,
Professor of Economics,
Rutgers University,
Chan Shen,
Associate Professor,
Penn State,
,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Dr. Paula T. Hammond,
Institute Professor and Department Head,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 19th, 2022
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems
Andrew Singletary,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Concentration enrichment, separation, and ion exchange in nanoliter-scale water-in-oil droplets
Robbyn K. Anand,
Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Iowa State 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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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Srirang Manohar
Online Event
A photoacoustic-ultrasound transmission breast tomography system: system overview and first imaging results
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
"Prediction of GPCR-G protein complex structures and the activation mechanism"
Dr. Moon Young Yang,
(Goddard group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Searches for New Physics with Quantum Sensors in the Laboratory and in Space
Marianna Safronova,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Frances Arnold,
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Dr. Paula T. Hammond,
Institute Professor and Department Head,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 20th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
A Bubble is Born: Nucleation and Early Growth of CO2 Bubbles in Polymer Foams
Andrew Ylitalo,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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10:30am
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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
Quantum Error Correcting Codes in CFTs
Al Shapere,
University of Kentucky,
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
Narrow transparency and collective emission in an ensemble of rare-earth ions coupled to a nanophotonic cavity
Mi Lei,
Graduate Student, Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging Common Structure for Prior-Free Image Reconstruction
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The alternation number and the Upsilon-invariant at 1 of positive 3-braid knots
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn,
Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cilia Powered Pumps
Eva Kanso,
Professor and Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Mathematics of Privacy and Synthetic Data
Roman Vershynin,
Professor of Mathematics / Associate Director,
Department of Mathematics / Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of California Irvine,
Saturday, May 21st, 2022
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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