Institute Calendar
Week of May 11, 2025
Monday, May 12th, 2025
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanical Characterization of Irregular Architected Two-Phase Materials
Chelsea Fox,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Topological organization of cell state manifolds across metazoans
Emanual Flores Bautista,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Molecular Approaches to Advancing 2D Conductive MOFs for Tailored Properties and Applications
Jihye Park,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Dr. Devontae Baxter,
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics and UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC San Diego,
Minjie Lei,
PhD student,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fault valving, slow slip events, and the friction-viscous transition in seismic cycle models with fault zone fluid transport
Eric Dunham,
Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How the universe came to be smooth and flat
Paul Steinhardt,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Distortion growth
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Reductive Samarium Catalysis enabled by a Thermochemical Roadmap
Emily Boyd,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Signal Processing for Line Spectra: New Sensor Arrays, Algorithms, and Theoretical Results
Pranav Kulkarni,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Daniel Voytas
From Lab to Field: The Promise of Plant Gene Editing at Scale
Daniel Voytas,
Professor/Director,
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBA
Oliver Tse,
Associate Professor,
Applied Analysis group of the Centre for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA),
Eindhoven University of Technology,
2:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Effects of impact-induced non-ice components in Ganymede's ice shell on the interpretation of Juno Microwave Radiometer data" & "Chemical Weathering Processes in Nili Fossae, Mars as Shown by Aluminum Phyllosilicates and Associated Mineralogy"
Yu Yu Phua,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Samantha Baker,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
Shakeeb Khan,
Professor of Economics,
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
From distortion growth to isoperimetry, and back again
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
First examples of categorification of U_{q} (sl_{2}) invariants of 3-manifolds
Sergei Gukov,
Director, Richard N. Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics/Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Synthesis of Novel Open-Shell Motifs and Weakly-Coordinating Anions
Tianyi (Mike) He,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
9:30am
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10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Methods for Learning Mechanics: Inverse Problems, Constitutive Modeling, and Design
Aakila Rajan,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:15am
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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
Signatures of high-energy neutrinos from sources for r-process nuclei
Yongzhong Qian,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable 2-factors of regular bipartite graphs
Clinton Conley,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A mysterious appearance of quantum probability in projective geometry
Jonathan Beardsley,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Explosive Life of Massive Binaries
Mathieu Renzo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Toward accurate and scalable site characterization with multi-scale, multi-modal observations
Harry Lee,
University of Hawai‘i,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Directed Reaction Discovery: Accessing the Remote Synthetic Landscape
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random zero sets
Assaf Naor,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Low Noise at Low Cost for Large Radio Astronomy Arrays
Kiran Shila,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deciphering Microbiome-Mediated Regulation of Neurometabolism and Social Behaviors"
Daniel Dumitrescu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mazmanian Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Advancing Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy through Deep Learning and Gel-Based Tissue Engineering
Li En Lin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Noam Yuchtman,
Drummond Professor of Political Economy,
Department of Economics,
University of Oxford and All Souls College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Emerging simplicity in microbiome dynamics
Lingchong You,
James L. Meriam Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, founding Director of the Center for Quantiative Biodesign,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Madison Dunitz,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Maria Schmeer,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Bozhi Tian
Physical Biology Strategies for Translational Bioelectrical Interfaces
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A positive dichotomy between Diophantine geometry and frieze patterns
Robin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Multimessenger Perspectives on High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Kohta Murase,
Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft Metric Fluctuations in Cosmology
Daniel Green,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yong Zhang
Wearable/implantable devices for light-based therapy
Professor Yong Zhang,
Chair Professor & Head Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Global STEM Professor Fellow of SAEng, EASA, IEEE, AIMBE & RSC Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics),
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Beyond Li: Challenges in moving towards earth-abundant battery materials
Michelle Qian,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Horowitz-Myers conjecture
Pei-Ken Hung,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Isolating the Effects of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in the Chesapeake Bay from a New GNSS-Constrained Vertical Land Motion Solution
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Saturday, May 17th, 2025
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