Institute Calendar
Week of April 28, 2024
Sunday, April 28th, 2024
2:00pm
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Monday, April 29th, 2024
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Policy to Pollute: Strategic Bargaining and Dissolved Oxygen Depletion in Streams and Rivers in the American West: The Case of American Indian Water Rights
Laura Taylor,
Postdoctoral Instructor in the Social Sciences,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Statistical Foundations of Operator Learning
Nicholas H. Nelsen,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designing Functional Sites in Metal-Organic Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion.
V. Sara Thoi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering; Leadership Council, Ralph S. O'Connor,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Quantifying the processes driving the land carbon sink
Yinon Bar On,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Indirect probes of muon EDM and spin force
Yohei Ema,
University of Minnesota & FTPI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random planar curves
Jason Miller,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
All Day
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Shallow Quantum Circuits
Robert Huang,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Moving Protons with Photoacids to Harness Light Energy"
Kana Takematsu,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Bowdoin College,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"ExoCubed: A Riemann-Solver based Cubed-Sphere Dynamic Core for Planetary Atmospheres" & "Probing the Origins of the Young Triple System ROXs 42 B with Atmospheric Retrievals and Orbital Fits"
Sihe Chen,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Julie Inglis,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Accountability under Polarization
Horacio Larreguy,
Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random surfaces
Jason Miller,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Disentanglement as a strong cosmic censor
Vincent Chen,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Paradoxical decompositions and colouring rules
Robert Simon,
Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics and Political Science,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Critical non-uniqueness in a shell model of the Navier-Stokes equations
Stan Palasek,
Department of Mathematics,
IAS/Princeton,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
Connecting Disks to Planetary Architectures and Compositions
Alycia Weinberger,
Staff Scientist,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What is driving the recent large increases in global atmospheric methane?
Youmi Oh,
NOAA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Converting CO2, water, and sunlight into liquid fuels: Towards affordable solar fuels and chemicals
Aisulu Aitbekova,
postdoctoral scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Advancing the logic of polymer synthesis, modification, and degradation
Alex Zhukhovitskiy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
- Internal Event
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nature in Motion: The power of bioinspired design in unraveling locomotion across mediums and scales
Aimy Wissa,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance
Chenzi Xu,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford University Graduate School of Business,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
CANCELLED -Weight zero compactly supported cohomology of moduli spaces of pointed hyperelliptic curves
Siddarth Kannan,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Uniform Turán density of hypergraphs
Daniel Kráľ,
Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
GW/FJRW correspondence for quasi-homogeneous polynomials
Yefeng Shen,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A Purpose for Disorder: Intrinsically Disordered Regions Promote Protein Refolding and Facilitate Retrieval from Biomolecular Condensates
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways
Kristala L. J. Prather - MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Large deviations of Dyson Brownian motion and multiple Schramm-Loewner Evolution
Evelina Peltola,
Mathematics Center,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies, German Studies, at Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor,
Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages,
Stanford University- School of Humanities,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Simple abelian varieties over finite fields with extreme point counts
Alexander Smith,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean
Vedika Khemani,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Multiple radial SLE(0) and classical Calogero-Sutherland system
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Phase transition for the late points of random walk
Perla Sousi,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: I, Human: Unlocking the Secret of Human Intelligence
Sneha R. Aenugu,
Caltech graduate student,
Social & Decision Neuroscience,
- Public Event
10:30am
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11:30am
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar
Online Event
Multimodal Imaging and Resting-State Global Brain Activity: Controversies, Hypotheses, and Discovery
Thomas T. Liu,
Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI and Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs
Luca Delacretaz,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolutions
Alex Vañó-Viñuales,
Postdoc and Invited Professor,
GRIT, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico,
University of Lisbon,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shock Waves: A Versatile Tool to Investigate Damage and Injury Mechanisms
Sarah A. Bentil,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Iowa State University of Science and Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Infinitesimal calculations in fundamental group
Nir Gadish,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Role of Cations and Organic Additive Films in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Madeline Hicks,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Liouville quantum gravity and SLE
Jason Miller,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,