Institute Calendar
Week of November 5, 2023
Sunday, November 5th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
8:45am
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12:30pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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9:45am
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11:15am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Dynamic Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders: Evidence from the Online Advertising Market
Shunto Kobayashi,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geomorphic and sedimentological controls on the global sulfur cycle
Jordon D. Hemingway,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
ETH Zürich Geological Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Closing the Loop in ML: Theory & Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Decision Systems
Lillian J. Ratliff,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter
Prineha Narang,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
9:45am
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11:15am
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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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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion
Renske Van der Veen,
Associate Professor and Department Head at Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy Berlin,
Department of Chemistry,
Helmholtz Centre Berlin and the Technical University Berlin.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Hidden water deep in the interiors of exoplanets
Caroline Dorn,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Spending Constraints: Why City Discretionary Funding Doesn't Reach Needy Neighborhoods
Julia Payson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
UCLA,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
9:45am
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11:15am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Poincaré generators of spinning binary in the post-Minkowskian approach
Sangmin Lee,
Seoul National University,
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Cognitive Hierarchies in Multi-Stage Games of Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiment
Po-Hsuan Lin,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Higher Information: The untold topological secrets of measures and states
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Discovery and characterization of a new pathway for protein insertion into the human outer mitochondrial membrane
Taylor Stevens,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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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
Searching for Signposts of Failed White Dwarf Supernovae
JJ Hermes,
Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? The Coastal Barrier Resources Act as a Natural Experiment
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Ways to See Real-Space Topological Textures and Their Order Parameters at the Atomic Scale
Yu-Tsun Shao,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry
Phillip Milner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Knowing Your Lemon Before You Dump It" joint work with Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Legal Best Practices: Forming and Funding Your Startup
Rick Friedman,
CEO,
Novus GC,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
9:45am
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11:15am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wind Farm Modeling and Control
Dennice F. Gayme,
Professor and Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deciphering the Function of the HinT Protein through Functional Proteomics"
Dr. Yanping Qiu,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chou Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations
Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr,
UC Riverside,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Pizza Seminar
Special AI & Misinformation Seminar: " IQ Journalism: Predicting the quality of news stories based on explainable AI"
Catherine Sotirakou,
- Internal Event
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Biological Systems
Michael Rosen,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CSSPP/HPS Seminar
What's So Special about Genetic Information, Anyway?
Ozan Gurcan,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The mechanics of glacier ice from viscous flow to iceberg calving
Brent Minchew,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales
Mina Arvanitaki,
Perimeter Institute,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
Antony Speranza,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Stable Matching as Transportation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
Dominik Wild,
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Catalogs and populations with ground-based and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Convergence of unitary representations and spectral gaps of manifolds
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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11:59pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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