Institute Calendar
Week of December 3, 2023
Ongoing
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12/5
11:59pm
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, December 4th, 2023
9:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Special AMO Seminar
Dipole-dipole interactions between individual molecules in an optical tweezer array
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Unconventional Approaches for Mediating Redox Reactions
Shabnam Hematian,
Assistant Professor and Bernard-Glickman Dean's Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Plants, Planet, and People: Understanding and Leveraging Plant-Water Interactions for a Changing World
Jeannie Wilkening,
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations
Kevin McFarland,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Floquet codes, automorphisms, and quantum computation
Margarita Davydova,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
"Energy Beaming" and "Space Dust"
Michael Kelzenberg,
Senior Research Scientist,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Brenda Rubenstein,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A window into sub-Neptune interiors: coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water atmospheres
William Misener,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab
Alexander Kish,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CS Seminar
Learning from Exams
Brian Railing,
Associate Teaching Professor,
Computer Science Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Peter Buisseret,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Irregular conformal blocks and braiding properties
Xia Gu,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
8:00am
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12/8
11:59pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation Chemistry in the Era of ALMA+JWST
Karin I. Öberg,
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes
James Stone,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can studying microbial physiology help us predict the fate of soil carbon?
Abraham (Avi) Flamholz,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Machine Learning Strategies for Secondary Sphere Modification in Organocatalysis
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Einstein on Singularities: Analysis versus Geometry
John Norton,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
On the Complexity of Neural Network Representations
Kordag Mehmet Kilic,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Spectroscopic mechanistic elucidation enables quantitative kinetic analysis as a blueprint for data-driven reaction optimization
Jaron Tong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Friday, December 8th, 2023
All Day
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Symposium
The Evolution of Reward Systems in the Mammalian Brain
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
Data-driven compression of electron-phonon interactions
Yao Luo,
Bernardi Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
bhpwave: A perturbative waveform model for binaries with spinning massive black holes
Zach Nasipak,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
With great precision comes great challenges: Gravitational Wave Observations of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Lorenzo Speri,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design and Implementation of a Microparticle Delivery Device for the Cornea
Dennis Ko,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 9th, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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