Institute Calendar
Week of April 23, 2023
Monday, April 24th, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Thermally and mechanically responsive platforms for functional polymeric materials
Brooke Versaw,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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PhD Thesis Defense
Inorganic Phototropism: Emergent Properties Directing Growth of Mesostructured Semiconductors
Madeline Meier,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Synthetic Chemistry for Carbon Management."
Matthew W. Kanan,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Prospects for Detecting Gaps in Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in M31 and Other External Galaxies with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Christian Aganze,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Petrologic Tools for Determining Rates of Magma Ascent in Explosive
Madison Myers,
Assistant Professor Committee Member Chair Earth Sciences Montana State University,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
An Adjoint Method for the Nonlinear Boltzmann Equation
Russel E. Caflisch,
Director and Professor of Mathematics,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Photons with Multiple Leptons
Matheus Hostert,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Exoskeleton-Based Training For Novel Motor Skill Acquisition
Keya Ghonasgi,
Ph.D. candidate,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Interparticle forces and stress transfer in saturated and unsaturated granular systems
Zichen Gu,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Generating Spin-Triplets at the Perovskite/Organic Interface
Lea Nienhaus,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Danica Adams,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Maria Camarca,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
*CANCELLED* Revisiting Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics
Angkur Shaikeea,
Ashby Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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NB & CNS Seminar - Gul Dolen | Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 4 pm
"Reopening critical periods with psychedelics: basic mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities"
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reputation and Capture: Limits of the Administrative Presidency
Lindsey Gailmard,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online and In-Person Event
Fundraising - Part 2
Doug Wicks,
Program Director,
ARPA-E,
Apoorv Agawal,
Technology-to-Market Advisor,
ARPA-E,
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploring and Controlling Superconducting States with 2D Quantum Structures
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit
Michael Newman,
Google Quantum AI,
Kevin Satzinger,
Google Quantum AI,
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Regularized SVGD, Gaussian Variational Inference and Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Statisticis,
University of California Davis,
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OCS - Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectures
Dr. Phillip Alper,
Senior Principal Investigator,
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Big Stars and Their Little Friends
Morgan MacLeod,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
CFA / Harvard,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Simultaneous Winds and Surface Currents: ODYSEA (Ocean Dynamics and Surface Exchange with the Atmosphere) into Space
Sarah Gille,
UCSD/Scripps,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance
Steven Tadelis,
Professor of Economics and Sarin Chair in Leadership and Strategy,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Composite Nanolattices and Colloidal Self-Assembly Enabled by 3D Nanoprinting
Wendy Gu,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Bank Branching and Local Shocks
Sarah Quincy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Vanderbilt University,
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Physics-based uncertainty quantification for megathrust earthquake potential using reduced-order modeling
Gabrielle Hobson,
Ph.D. Student,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
- Internal Event
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NB & CNS Seminar - Gilles Laurent | Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4 pm
On Sleep, Camouflage and Brain Evolution
Gilles Laurent,
Director,
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research,
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Number Theory Seminar
Abelian covers of P^1 of p-ordinary Ekedahl-Oort type
Yuxin Lin,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
Daniel Hooper,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Malnutrition and the "Quality of People" in the Early Cold War
Hannah LeBlanc,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in STEM and Inequality,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Exploring conformal probability with hierarchical models
Abdelmalek Abdesselam,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Virginia,
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Friday, April 28th, 2023
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PhD Thesis Defense
Cryo-ET Reveals Molecular Details of Multi-Megadalton Bacterial Protein Complexes
Przemysław Dutka,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Some comments on modular invariance in higher dimensions
Edgar Shaghoulian,
UC Santa Cruz,
11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
Neuroscience and the Principles of Evolution
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy
Misha Khodak,
PhD Student,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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