Institute Calendar
Week of May 4, 2025
Ongoing
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5/6
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
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Informal Seminar - Chetana Sachidanandan
Disease models in zebrafish reveal hidden neurocristopathies
Chetana Sachidananda,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Murali Dharan Bashyam
New revelations from an old disease: studying somatic DNA aberrations in a poorly understood Colorectal cancer subtype unravels neomorphic gain of function and a novel mode of gene activation
Murali Dharan Bashyam,
Staff Scientist,
Molecular Oncology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Matthew Gherman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Stabilizing Halide-Based Redox Active Materials for Rechargeable Battery Applications
Alexis Grimaud,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the Evolution of the Arctic
Justin Strauss,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Darmouth College,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
Jake Rudolph,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Market Entry with Many Potential Entrants
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Dynamic Control of Radiative Thermal Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
12:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Characterizing Bare-Rock Exoplanets in the Era of JWST" & "Initial Results from the First Mass Loss Survey of Gas Giants Orbiting F Stars"
Kim Paragas,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Morgan Saidel,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Stark's Conjectures and Explicit Class Field Theory
Samit Dasgupta,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Quantifying Inefficiency
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Misha Usatyuk,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar with Dr. Christian Haffner
Christian Haffner,
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
imec,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Forcing and Borel Equivalence Relations
Dima Sinapova,
Mathematics Department,
Rutgers University,
12:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk
Average Treatment Effects in Exchangeable Random Arrays
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
Jean-Francois Houde,
Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Advances in Eulerian Modeling: Compaction, Multiphase Flow, and Plasticity
Nicolas Favrie,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Aix-Marseille University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" and "Lineage tracing in the developing placenta through space and time"
Joani Viliunas,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
Martin Tran,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Metal Binding to Nsp1, a SARS-CoV-2 protein
Maryann Morales,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Illuminating Natural Intelligence with Smart Experimental Systems and Advanced Machine Learning
Hang Lu,
C. J. "Pete" Silas Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation of College of Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Adrian Tasistro-Hart,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkely,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling the First Galaxies & Black Holes in the Universe
Priyamvada Natarajan,
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor in Astronomy & Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Using Organizational Flexibility: Inside the GmbH
Tim Guinnane,
Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Flexible Phased Arrays: Challenges & Opportunities
Oren Mizrahi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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3:30pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Daniel Dauhajre,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Ocean Dynamics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Mark Jason Lara,
Assistant Professor,
Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences,
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Collinear Corrections to the Cachazo-Strominger Soft Theorem
Sruthi Narayanan,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMS Seminar-Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
David Patterson,
Computer Scientist UC Berkeley and Google,
Andy Konwinski,
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks, and Perplexity,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dynamical tides in binary neutron stars: effects of spin, tidal spin, and nonlinear hydrodynamics
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Stochastic estimation and reinforcement learning control of disturbed aerodynamic flows
Jeff Eldredge,
Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Dehn twist on a connected sum of two homology tori
Haochen Qiu,
Department of Mathematics,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Unveiling the Dynamics of Supershear Earthquakes: Insights from Enhanced Back-Projection Imaging
Lingsen Meng,
Associate Professor of Geophysics,
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California Los Angeles,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 10th, 2025
2:30pm
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Exploring the Intersection of YouTube and STEM
Estefannie,
Dr. Alex Dainis,
Lindsay Nikole,
Earthquake Sim,
- Internal Event
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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