Institute Calendar
Week of April 27, 2025
Ongoing
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4/30
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Sunday, April 27th, 2025
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 28th, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Asymmetric Transformations from Palladium Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Kaylin (Kali) Flesch,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Essays on Political Accountability and Representation
Jacob Morrier,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Harnessing locality for scalable strongly correlated electron simulations
Linqing Peng,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar
"Metallacarbatrane and Related Platforms for the Synthesis of Main Group Metal Hydride Compounds and Catalysts for the Reduction of CO2"
Gerard Parkin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Probing the limits of individual amino acid isotope data: toward multi- million year biogeochemical and ecological reconstruction using marine fossils
Matthew McCarthy,
Professor,
Physical and Biological Sciences Division Ocean Sciences Department Institute of Marine Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio
Anson Hook,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Nonlinear Magneto-Optics of van der Waals magnet CrSBr
Liuyan Zhao,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
9:30am
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12:00pm
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Kroc Lecture - Carla Shatz
Does neural development have lessons for Alzheimer's disease?
Carla Shatz,
Professor,
Biology and Neurobiology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Why don't plants get sunburn?
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachussetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape" & "Detection of New Auroral Emissions from Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus"
Xuan Ji,
Graduate Student,
Department of Geophysical Sciences,
University of Chicago,
Zachariah Milby,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Makes a World War? A Structural Analysis of Integration
Joseph Ruggiero,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Finite quotients of 3-manifold groups
Melanie Matchett Wood,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Feynman-Vernon goes cosmic: path integrals for cosmological open systems
Gregory Kaplanek,
Syracuse University,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Criticality and Anyon Superconductivity: Two Routes to Beyond BCS Superconductors
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Continuity and strictness of measurable cocycles
Christian Rosendal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland-College Park,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Dr. Pooneh Maghoul,
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure and geo-engineering Research Laboratory (SIGLab),
Institute for Water, Environment and Health,
Polytechnique Montréal,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Kinematic varieties for massless particles
Svala Sverrisdóttir,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation
Nadia Zakamska,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar: Ilan Shomorony
Ilan Shomorony,
Assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Paleoclimate and Historical Perspectives on Modern Climate Sensitivity
Vince Cooper,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Beginning to understand light-mediated Ni catalysis using physical organic techniques and data science
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition
Eddie Dekel,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation
Kaitlin Luedecke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
José Yáñez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Root recovery for infection processes on trees and graphs
Louigi Addario-Berry,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
Reginald Anderson,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad,
Frank M. Tiller Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Remote Sensing Methods for Measuring River Mobility
Evan Greenberg,
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series: Nobel Laureate, Professor Eric Betzig
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig,
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle
Jordan Ellenberg,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Miklos Racz,
Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Towards quantum simulating holographic duality
Julian Sonner,
University of Geneva,
11:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezić,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
Xiaolong Hans Han,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits.
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
10:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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