Institute Calendar
Week of October 6, 2024
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Sunday, October 6th, 2024
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The role of policy and governance in shaping biotechnology for sustainability: A case study of U.S. regulations governing engineered microbes for environmental release
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Discovery of Manganese-Dependent Monooxygenases
Jonathan Rittle,
The Chevron Professor of Chemistry; Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Browning of the Earth: Rapid Vegetation Change in the Past and its Impacts
Regan Dunn,
Assistant Curator,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Weyl fermion on a finite lattice
Srimoyee Sen,
Iowa State University,
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
8:00am
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3:00pm
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8:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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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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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Probability threshold for group isomorphism
Edward Hou,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Sedimentary Geology of the Skrinkle Haven mbr ( "curvilinear unit"), Jezero crater, Mars
Elizabeth Ives,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture
Two Engineers and a Whiteboard: Reimagining Clean Energy Systems
Pedro Pizarro,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International,
David Welch,
Co-Founder, NosTerra,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Model Uncertainty, Disagreement, and Over-Precision: Theory and Evidence
Ned Augenblick,
Associate Professor,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings near the conformal boundary of AdS3.
Vit Sriprachyakul,
ETH Zurich,
11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Structurable equivalence relations and Lω1ωLω1ω interpretations
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Maria Drout,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
NASA's New Orbital Imaging Spectrometers
David Thompson,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Non-trivial topology in the centrosymmetric square net Eu-based compounds
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
When to Decide: Timing of Choice in Parallel Search
Can Urgun,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, October 10th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Interleaved Physics-Based Deep-Learning Framework as a New Cycle Jumping Approach for Microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Growth Simulations
Ashley Spear,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Utah,
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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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Maxim Zhelyabovskiy,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Agapie Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geoclub Kickoff: Faculty Spotlights
Woodward Fischer,
Professor of Geobiology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Michael P. Lamb,
Professor of Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory for newforms at Eisenstein primes
Mulun Yin,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
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Friday, October 11th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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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
Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory
Tomasz Taylor,
Northeastern University and University of Warsaw,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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
Exploring scientific frontiers in quantum error correction with reconfigurable atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm
2:00pm
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10/12
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Symposium
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Plugged In: Art and Electric Light
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in a collisional multi-fluid plasma
Vincent Wheatley,
Co-Director of the Centre for Hypersonics,
University of Queensland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Finiteness of Totally Geodesic Hypersurfaces in Negative Curvature
Ben Lowe,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Starquakes a thousand light years away
James Fuller,
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 12th, 2024
10:00am
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