Institute Calendar
Week of February 9, 2025
Ongoing
Ongoing
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2/11
11:59pm
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
9:20am
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3:45pm
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Frontiers in Electrical Engineering 2/10
Anuran Makur,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
9:30am
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11:30am
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New Horizons in Neuroscience - Laura Seeholzer and Claire Bedbrook
New Horizons in Neuroscience - Laura Seeholzer and Claire Bedbrook
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
A Climate and Environmental Risks Impacts Assessment for Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duane Waliser,
Chief Scientist,
Earth Science and Technology Directorate,
JPL,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Quantifying LIGO's response to environmental disturbances in O4 and beyond
Adrian Helmling-Cornell,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Bridging the Gaps between Projection of Climate and Impacts
Jane Baldwin,
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark showers from sneaky dark matter
Christiane Scherb,
UC Berkeley/LBNL,
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing the Frontiers of Interstellar Chemistry Through Cold and Controlled Ion Experiments
Heather Lewandowski,
Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The "solar abundance" problem: Decades of discrepancy, today's progress and implications for outer solar system origins and habitability
Ngoc Truong,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemistry- and imaging-based methods to explore extracellular biology
- Internal Event
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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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
Characterizing the Space of UV-Complete Amplitudes
Justin Berman,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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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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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Σ12 -completeness results in Borel combinatorics via gadget reductions
Alex Kastner,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Comprehensive Assessment of DAS Amplitude and Its Implications for Earthquake Early Warning and Moonquake Detection
Qiushi Zhai,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Geophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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6:30pm
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Center for Evolutionary Science Winter Symposium
Evolution of Organismal Systems
Jasmine Nirody,
Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
University of Chicago,
Matthew Fuxjager,
Graduate Program Co-Director for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Brown University,
Natasha Mhatre,
Assistant Professor & CRC in Invertebrate Neurobiology,
Department of Biology,
Western University,
Michael Dickinson,
Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering,
Department of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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
Revisiting the Core Accretion Paradigm for Giant Planet Formation: Analytic Framework for the Late Infall Stage and the Distribution of Planetary Masses
Fred Adams,
Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Synergies and co-benefits of a clean energy transition
Denise Mauzerall,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar
How to reform the permitting process for renewable energy projects
Sanjay Patnaik,
Director, Center on Regulation and Markets (CRM); Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development; Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Strain induced magnetism and superconductivity in Heusler membranes
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From folding to scaling: a tour through nonlinear mechanics
Huan Liu,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Cycles on the moduli space of abelian varieties
Dragos Oprea,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
CY3 Wall-Crossing using Virtual Classes
Felix Thimm,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Cin-Ty Lee,
Harry Carothers Wiess Professor of Geology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar, Muhammad A. Alam
Reliable Sensing with Field-Deployed "Unreliable" Implantable and Wearable Sensors: How Physics, Information Theory, and Fake-News Algorithm Make Robust Sensing Possible
Muhammad A. Alam,
Jai N. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic
Peter Xu,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, February 14th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Antipodal (Self-)Duality in Planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Lance Dixon,
SLAC,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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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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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Mapping the Dark Matter Distribution of Galaxies with Stellar Streams
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
Embedded Minimal Tori in the Three Sphere
Xingzhe Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Evaluating Theoretical Models in Earthquake Physics to Reconcile Recent Observations
Boaning Wu,
Postdoctoral Scholar- Research Associate,
Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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