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Week of October 16, 2022

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Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
Monday, October 17th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Green Hills Software: Designing a Secure Laptop for the FBI
Finn Southerland, Green Hills Software,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Development and Evaluation of a Quantitative Sequencing Method for Absolute Quantification of Fungal Communities
Reid Akana, Graduate Student, Ismagilov Lab,
12:00pm 1:15pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse, Artist and Associate Professor at Northeastern University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Dimer model. Introduction
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:45pm 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Charge Transfer Processes at Biological Interfaces and Across Biopolymers
Nadav Amdursky, Associate Professor, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
The evolution of color gradients within galaxies and its effect on galaxy morphology
Tim Miller, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

What determines surface evaporation? local to global perspectives
Dani Or, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ),
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium Series

Causality for Machine Learning: Causal Approaches to Improving ML Systems
Alexander D 'Amour, Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Gauge Invariance from On-Shell Massive Amplitudes and Tree-level Unitarity
Da Liu, UC Davis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

"Inhomogeneous disordering at a photoinduced charge density wave transition"
Antonio Picano, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany,
7:30pm 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Exploding Stars" and "Plato and the Fundamental Nature of Gravity"
Abigail Polin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Spiros Michalakis, Staff Scientist, Institute for Quantum Information & Matter, Caltech,
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
3:30pm 4:30pm
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Neurobiology and Computation & Neural Systems seminar.

"Neural structure, function, and dynamics in C. elegans "
Andrew Leifer, Assistant Professor, Physics & Neuroscience, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Quantum optics with organic molecules: cavity QED, optomechanics, and cooperativity
Vahid Sandoghdar, Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

A multi-parameter approach to planetary habitability
Sarah McIntyre, Graduate Student, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Simplicity, Risk, and Financial Choice
Indira Puri, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, MIT,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Markov chain Monte Carlo and high-dimensional, nonlinear inverse problems in Earth Science
Matthias Morzfeld, Associate Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Moons and Rings of Exoplanets
Anthony Piro, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED – Chemical Engineering Seminar

Ravi Jagadeeshan, Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Monash University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED: Chen Institute for Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. Mayank Mehta

From virtual reality to reality: How neurons create space from time
Dr. Mayank Mehta, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Neurology, Neurobiology, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Electrosynthesis of Ferrate(VI/V/IV) Oxidants for Decentralized Water Treatment Applications
Sean McBeath, Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Atomic Dynamics in Energy Materials: Vibrations, Diffusion, and Phase Transitions
Oliver Delaire, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Blackwell Correlated Equilibrium
Doron Ravid, Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Reaction Fronts in Porous Media
Marc A. Hesse, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geological Sciences and the Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Desiccation and Recognition: Competing Pressures at the Periphery of a Social Insect Colony"
Thomas Naragon, Parker Group,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

An interplay between order and disorder in proteins regulates transcription elongation
Vaclav Veverka, IOCB Prague,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Special CCE Seminar

Scientific Publishing From the Inside Out
Dr. Jake Yeston, Editor at Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Laser-free entanglement and squeezing with trapped ions
Daniel Slichter, Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

MgO, the simplest oxide?
June Wicks, Assistant Professor in Earth & Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Theta functions on the $n$-fold metaplectic cover of $GL(2)$ and the non-vanishing at the center of the critical strip of symmetric cube $L$-series
Jeffrey Hoffstein, Department of Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

The Generalized Landau Paradigm
John McGreevy, UC San Diego,
4:00pm 6:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

"Ion Transport in Charged Polymer Electrolytes: The Pursuit of High Li+ Transference Number"
Bryan D. McCloskey, Department Chair and Warren & Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar

The mpEDMD algorithm: Structure-preserving and rigorous Koopmanism
Matthew Colbrook, Assistant Professor in DAMTP, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar, Professor Zhenpeng Qin

Nanoscale Interface with the Brain Using Light and Advanced Nanomaterials
Friday, October 21st, 2022
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Entanglement Bootstrap and Remote Detectability
John McGreevy, UC San Diego,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Uncovering the Galactic Black Hole Population with Gravitational Microlensing
Casey Lam, Graduate Student, U.C. Berkeley, Department of Astronomy,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Mixing, Morphology, and Melting in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence
Blair A. Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Geography problem in 4 dimensional topology and Mahowald invariants
Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Professor Jürgen Götz

Opportunities and challenges of ultrasound-mediated neuromodulation and drug delivery from the perspective of a biologist working in the Alzheimer space
Professor Jürgen Götz,, Inaugural Director of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland,
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022