Institute Calendar
Week of January 26, 2025
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
3:00pm
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Ecological Pattern to Molecular Mechanism: Evolutionary Selection for Environmental Resilience in the Marine Environment
Margaret McFall-Ngai,
Division of Biosphere Sciences and Engineering,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
An independent search for small long-period planets in Kepler data / Detecting and Characterizing Intermediate-period Companions to Stars with Space-based Photometry / Early On-Sky Results from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Commissioning Campaign
Oryna Ivashtenko,
PhD student,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Shishir Dholakia,
PhD student,
University of Southern Queensland,
Guillem Megias i Homar,
PhD student,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Understanding How the Hydroxyl Radical Shapes Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate
Qindan Zhu,
Houghton Postdoctoral Fellow,
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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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Time-delayed gamma-ray signatures of heavy axions from core-collapse supernovae
Joshua Benabou,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
10:30am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Junho Lee| Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 3 pm
Mind of a Dauer: Developmental Plasticity of the Nervous System
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The photochemistry and climate of foreign atmospheres: implications for the origin of life on early Earth and understanding exoplanets observed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Nicholas Wogan,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance
Kei Kawai,
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo; Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley (on leave),
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries in Yang-Mills Theory
Nicolas Cresto,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Bowen's Problem 32 and the conjugacy problem for systems with specification
Bo Peng,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
3D Quasi-Dynamic Earthquake Cycle Modelling Accelerated Using Hierarchical Matrices: Role of complex fault geometry
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Stability of the catenoid for the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature equation in 4 spatial dimensions
Ning Tang,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Dim Future of Exoplanet Imaging
Michael Bottom,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Institute for Astronomy,
University of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent land carbon sink responses to trends in CO2 and Climate diagnosed from a CARDAMOM reanalysis
Eren Bilir,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar (cross-listed with the History and Philosophy of Science series)
Climate Change, Solar Geoengineering, and Risk
Marion Hourdequin,
Professor of Philosophy,
Colorado College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Nature of the topological insulating and superconducting states in ultrathin semimetal WTe2
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, January 30th, 2025
10:00am
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11:30am
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"Innovative Pedagogy in Computer Science: Candidate Series"
Linked Lists and...Large Language Models? Discussing the future of computing education at Caltech
Jedidiah Tsang,
Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Adventures with Atomic Materials: Non-volatile Electron Physics to Wearable Health & Clean Energy
11:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Accelerated Computing of Deformation and Failure in Porous Materials
Yashar Mehmani,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering,
Penn State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Ultrasonic Reporter for Kinase Activity and Other Cellular Enzymes"
Jee Won Yang,
Graduate Student,
Shapiro Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Cascade of new even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
Mansour Shayegan,
Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Princeton University,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ridgelines Record Tectonic Forcing
Michael J. Robinson,
Graduate Student,
Program of Hydrologic Sciences,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Generic positivity of the Beilinson-Bloch height of Gross-Schoen and Ceresa cycles
Ziyang Gao,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
From Collisions to Discoveries with Machine Learning at the Energy Frontier
Javier Duarte,
UCSD,
Friday, January 31st, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Bond-Selective Nonlinear Optical Microscopy: From Live Cell to Single Molecule Imaging
Dongkwan Lee,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Wei Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal boundary conditions and cosmic horizons
Batoul Banihashemi,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Many-body Interactions between Matter Waves Mediated by a High Finesse Cavity
Chengyi Luo,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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Ongoing
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Nanophotonic engineering of thermal emitters
Komron J. Shayegan,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Better early than never: A new test for superluminal gravitational wave polarizations
Kristen Schumacher,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Designing Active Particles: From Optical Control to Shape Adaptation
Lucio Isa,
Full Professor of Soft Materials and Interfaces,
ETH Zurich,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Manifolds with Ricci lower bounds in the spectral sense
Kai Xu,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminaer
Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Open-shell Complexes Bearing Unusual Me-E (E = N, C) Bonding Motifs
Tianyl (Mike) He,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Caldera collapse earthquakes at basaltic volcanoes - a trilogy of waves, magma, and friction
Saturday, February 1st, 2025
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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