Institute Calendar
April 2020
Monday, March 30th, 2020
Ongoing
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4/3
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Arıkan meets Shannon: Polar codes with near-optimal convergence to channel capacity
Venkat Guruswami,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Kathryn Zurek,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Aerosol Effects on Cloud Systems
Graham Feingold,
NOAA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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.
Congyi Zhou,
Assistant Professor of Politics,
College of Arts and Science,
New York University,
5:30pm
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4/2
1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Photography on Campus: Caltech Chemistry Department
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - The Rise of Oxygen in the Atmosphere: A View From the Deep Earth
Claire E. Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
All Day
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Atropisomeric Scaffolds, Fluorophores, and Colorimetric Sensors
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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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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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Engineering Seminar
TBA
Kranthi K. Mandadapu,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Finance Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Eric D. Hilt,
Professor of Economics,
Wellesley College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Physics Colloquium
From single to statistical: gravitational-wave populations
Daniel Holz,
University of Chicago,
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
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 Event
Reparametrization Modes in CFTs & Applications
Felix Haehl,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Nese Yildiz,
University of Rochester,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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● POSTPONED: TAPIR Seminar
Title to be announced
Alexander Grant,
Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
A Message From the Director
Mory Gharib,
Director & Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, April 4th, 2020
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, April 5th, 2020
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 6th, 2020
11:00am
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4/10
4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Special Biochemistry Seminar
Prof. Dr. Ralf Mendel,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Technical University of Braunschweig,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Caroline Morley,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Teaching an Old LHC new Higgs
Philip Harris,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Matthias Dörries,
Professor of Epistemology and History of Science,
University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study,
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.
Tom Clark,
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science,
Emory College of Arts and Sciences,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Rademacher type and Enflo type coincide
Ramon van Handel,
Associate Professor,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Heino Falcke,
Professor of Astroparticle Physics and Radio Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy,
Radboud University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Physical factors impacting convective storms and weather hazards
Jiwen Fan,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Simon Billinge,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Ellen M. Sletten,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Water at the Inflection Point: Solutions for the Coming Water Crises
David Sedlak,
Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Teleportation by size, traversable wormholes, and quantum gravity in the lab
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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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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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar
CANCELED: Quality Control During 40S Ribosome Assembly
Katrin Karbstein,
Associate Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology,
Scripps Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2020
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
The Statistical Mechanics of Near-Extremal Black Holes
Luca Ilesiu,
Princeton University,