Institute Calendar
Week of February 5, 2023
Ongoing
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Monday, February 6th, 2023
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RSI Research Seminar
Circumneutral Electrosynthesis of Ferrate(IV/V/VI) Oxidants for Decentralized Water Treatment Applications
Yi (Sam) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
HEI Lecture 1: Dr. Erik M Conway
Dr. Erik M. Conway,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Historian,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Steering electrons with light fields: from ultrafast electronics to quantum sensing
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic White Dwarfs: The Galactic X-ray Sky in the SRG/eROSITA Era
Tony Rodriguez,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing the properties of the protosolar disk using cosmochemistry
Alessandro Morbidelli,
Researcher in Astronomy,
Conseil National de la Rescherche Scientifique,
Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Graphical Designs: Structure, Complexity and Applications
Rekha R. Thomas,
Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Explorations in Hilbert Space
Markus Luty,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Short- and Long-Range Chemical Interaction in Cluster and Condensed Phase
Wanlu Li,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Sharp time asymptotics for the quasi-geostrophic equation and near plane waves of reaction-diffusion models
Fazel Hadadifard,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Riverside,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Complexity and Agnostic Biosignatures using Epsilon Machines
Stuart Bartlett,
Postdoc,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Luigi Zingales,
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
11:00am
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes from the NTRU cryptosystem
Jonathan Conrad,
Free University, Berlin,
11:00am
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Role of AGN-Driven Winds in their Host Galaxies' Evolution
Dalya Baron,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Towards Soft Intelligent Materials: Reconfigurable Single-Material Soft Microstructures
Shucong Li,
Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Salt Fat Acid Meet: Cooking Up an Understanding of Organic Aerosol Heterogeneous Reactions, Phase, and Continuing Chemistry in Individual Particles
Andrew Ault,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Catalysis Beyond the Surface: How Bulk Ion Insertion Influences Reactivity in Electrochemical Energy Conversion"
Tyler Mefford,
Sr. Physical Science Research Scientist in Materials Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Galactic Paleontology with JWST: Finding Living Fossils in the Ancient Universe
Online and In-Person Event
Chuck Steidel (PhD '90),
Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Department of Astronomy,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
8:45am
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Structured Instabilities in Excited Granular Materials
Christopher Boyce,
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yu Sun
Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
Guy Gur-Ari,
Google Research,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin,
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
4:00pm
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Friday, February 10th, 2023
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Crossing Symmetry in Matter Chern Simons theories at finite N and k
Shiraz Minwalla,
TaTa Institute,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collisions in Galactic Nuclei: Stars, Binaries, and Black Holes
3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Employing a Ferrocene-based Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mediator in Photoelectrocatalysis
Catherine Romero,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, February 11th, 2023
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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