Institute Calendar
Week of November 27, 2022
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12/2
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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Analysis Seminar
Introduction to the dimer model, III
Marianna Russkikh,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Manipulation of Iron-Sulfur Clusters
Daniel L. M. Suess,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Opening the new frontier of Gravitational Wave Paleontology
Floor Broekgaarden,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Origin of life-essential volatiles in the rocky bodies of the inner Solar System
Damanveer S. Grewal,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
From Non-Local Variational Problems to Non-Local Conservation Laws
Qiang Du,
Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
On detecting equatorial symmetry breaking with LISA
Kwinten Fransen,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum technologies for trapped molecular ions
Stefan Willitsch,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Basel,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Thermally-Driven Chemistry of Planetary Ice Analogs
Patrick Tribbett,
Graduate Student,
Department Astronomy & Planetary Science,
Northern Arizona University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reference Dependence and Goal Motivation: Evidence From Online Chess
Jeff Zeidel,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
10:00am
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Dynamics of the Knaster continuum homeomorphism group
Sumun Iyer,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Deciphering Accretion in Cataclysmic Variables
Paula Szkody,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Impacts of global change on the cycling and bioaccumulation of anthropogenic pollutants
Elsie Suderland,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Physical design meets convex optimization: Hidden structure in Maxwell's equations
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Random surface, planar lattice model, and conformal field theory
Xin Sun,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Air Pollution and School Absences in New York City
Daniel Guth,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Simulating solids like fluids: A fully Eulerian approach to fluid-structure interaction
Ken Kamrin,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering Viral Vectors for Acoustically Targeted Gene Delivery in Brain"
Hongyi (Richard) Li,
Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Securities Ratings and Information Provision
Eric Hilt,
Professor of Economics,
Wellesley College,
2:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Lozenge tilings via the dynamic loop equation
Vadim Gorin,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Advances in Plant Molecular Foundries
Prof. Karen McDonald,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Landscapes of Glass
Douglas J. Jerolmack,
Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor X. Edward Guo
Bone Bioengineering: Microstructure, Mechanics, Mechanobiology, and Beyond
X. Edward Guo, Chair and Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine),
Bone Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum matter, clocks, and fundamental physics
Jun Ye,
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:30pm
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Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Diophantine Equations in Two Variables and the Arithmetic Shapes of Solutions
Minhyong Kim,
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
University of Edinburgh,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
On delocalization of planar integer-valued height functions and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition of two-component spin models in two dimensions
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Model-Based Lower-Limb Powered Prosthesis Control: Developing and Realizing Nonlinear Subsystem Control Methods for Generalizable Prosthesis Control
Rachel Gehlhar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Gravitational Path Integral for 1/4 BPS N = 4 black holes from Siegel Modular Forms
Abhiram Kidambi,
IPMU, University of Tokyo,
11:00am
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Plurality Veto: A Simple Voting Rule Achieving Optimal Metric Distortion
Fatih Erdem Kızılkaya,
Research Assistant,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Holistic Design in High-Speed Silicon Photonics and Low-Power Electronics Platforms
Arian Hashemi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum gas of molecules
Jun Ye,
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Learning Homogenization for Elliptic Operators with Discontinuous Parameters
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Tuning the Selectivity of Fe-based Catalysis for N2 Fixation in Protic Media Using Proton Responsive Ligand."
Lucie Nurdin,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Exotic phenomena in 4-dimensional topology
Lisa Piccirillo,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
8:00am
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