Institute Calendar
Week of October 22, 2023
Ongoing
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10/22
6:00pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk: Cautionary Tales: The Horrors of Tightly-Coupled Complexity
Georg Fisher Tech Talk
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- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Learning About Informativeness
Wanying (Kate) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From Atom to System – Electrochemistry for Terawatt-Hour Energy Transition.
Ying Shirley Meng,
Professor of Molecular Engineering,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Tale of Two Pools: The dynamic impacts of reactive transport, phase separation and shallow mixing on the geochemistry and microbiology of a coupled Yellowstone hydrothermal system
Kenneth Sims,
Professor,
Isotope Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of Wyoming,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Learning to Perceive in the Era of Large Models
Georgia Gkioxari,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
CMS - EE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The search for µ− → e+ conversion at µ− → e− conversion experiments
Michael Mackenzie,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Subconvex bounds for unitary groups in horizontal aspects
Paul Nelson,
Department of Mathematics,
Aarhus University,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
10:45am
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12:15pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar with Prof. Fei Miao
Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Improved performance guarantees for the median of means estimator
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in CCE Seminar
"Unlocking molecular selectivity at electrochemical interfaces through redox-electron transfer"
Dr. Xiao Su,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing and imaging nuclear and electronic motions at molecular length-scales in disordered media harnessing optical and scattering interactions
Thomas Markland,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
On the Dust of Primitive Small Bodies in the Solar System
Yuna Kwon,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The 2x2 Demonstrator - A demonstrator for the DUNE ND-LAr Near Detector based on the ArgonCube Design
Brooke Russell,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Adapting to Misspecification
Tim Armstrong,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
USC,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:40am
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11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Toroidal Casimir Energy of Conformal Field Theories with d>2
Conghuan Luo,
New York University,
10:45am
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12:15pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Quantum circuits for fast multiplication with few ancillas
Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Ensemble data assimilation methods for improving model statistics Abstract:
Eviatar Bach,
Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Rigorous results about entropies in QFT
Feng Xu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Next-Generation Simulations of the Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars
Carl Fields,
RPF Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow,
Computational Physics and Methods,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Out of Sight, Out of Mind -- The DDT Story You Haven't Heard
David Valentine,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Rationalizable Information Design
Olivier Gossner,
Professor, London School of Economics; Senior Researcher, CNRS; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, October 26th, 2023
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering RNA export to monitor and manipulate living cells"
Dr. Felix Horns,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Mild Government Failure
Shang-Jin Wei,
N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics,
Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Decoding the Cellular Blueprint: DNA, Lipids, and Nuclear Geometry
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the Universal Deformation Ring of Residual Galois Representations with Three Jordan Holder Factors
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN Disks
Zhaohuan Zhu,
UNLV,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Engineering Therapeutics for the Pediatric Brain"
Elizabeth Nance,
Jagjeet and Janice Bindra Endowed Career Development Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Washington,
Friday, October 27th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Holography on the quantum disk
Ahmed Almheiri,
NYU,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exponential speedups for quantum walks in random hierarchical graphs
Shankar Balasubramanian,
MIT,
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Jiaobing Tu
Online and In-Person Event
Wearable Sweat Sensors for Disease Monitoring and Management
Jiaobing Tu,
Ph.D. Student,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Instittute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraining supernovae models using gamma-ray deposition histories
Amir Sharon,
Graduate Student,
Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulent boundary layers in spatially and temporally varying pressure gradients
Theresa Saxton-Fox,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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
Development and Application of Cooperative Catalysts Methods for Alkene Carboboration
Stanna Dorn,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Reisman Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 28th, 2023
11:00am
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7:00pm
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