Institute Calendar
January 2021
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Friday, January 1st, 2021
9:00am
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Monday, January 4th, 2021
10:30am
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
11:00am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Free Range Frequency Combs: mobilizing frequency comb laser technology from hypersonic research to atmospheric sensing
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Radon-like Transforms, Geometric Measures, and Invariant Theory
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Extreme values of the argument of the zeta function
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Ultra-Hot Jupiters: Revealing the Atmospheres of a Novel Class of Exoplanets
Megan Mansfield,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Design Enabled by Prototype Pathogen Preparedness"
Kizzmekia S. Corbett,
Senior Research Fellow,
National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health,
Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
9:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Stochastic Weather and Climate Models
Tim Palmer,
Oxford University,
1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar
Online Event
A violation of global symmetries from replica wormholes and the fate of black hole remnants
Luca Iliesiu,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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▶︎POSTPONED: Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and Its Consequences
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Cosmic Rays in Multiphase Gas
Ellen Zweibel,
W. L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Is Densification During Sintering Diffusion Limited? Insights from Ultrahigh Temperature in situ Nanomechanical Testing and Sintering
Shen J. Dillon,
Associate Professor,
Material Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Kinetic Theory for Superparameterization of Sea Ice Dynamics
Dimitris Giannakis,
Associate Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University.,
12:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Enabling novel light phenomena at the subwavelength scale
Marin Soljačić,
MIT,
Friday, January 8th, 2021
1:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Latent-variable modeling: causality, robustness, and false discovery methods
3:00pm
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Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Flows over Rough Walls
Online Event
Numerical simulations of turbulent flows over rough walls
Ugo Piomelli,
Professor,
Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
Queen's University,
4:00pm
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Monday, January 11th, 2021
11:00am
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
A new regularity property of the Haar null ideal
Zoltán Vidnyánszky,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
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Reconciling our Biases with our Values
Dr. Hanna Song,
Senior Director for Inclusion & Diversity,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"The Cosmic Gold Rush" and "The Secret to Building the Biggest Galaxies: Cannibalism"
Rachel Bezanson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pittsburgh,
- Public Event
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
10:00am
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11:15am
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Nucleation enhancement in new particle formation from the vapor phase and water transport through gas-liquid interfaces in organic aerosols
Ruth Signorell,
Professor of Physical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience,
ETZ Zurich,
10:30am
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Mathematics Colloquium
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Thin sets of primes from reductions of abelian varieties and K3 surfaces
12:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
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Microbial Chemistry: Understanding the Known, Discovering the Unknown
12:00pm
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Cancelled -- General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Cell Size and Chromosome Folding: From Scaling Laws to Cellular Physicochemical Properties"
Christine Jacobs-Wagner,
Professor,
Biology & ChEM-H Institute,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
The Icy Mid-Latitudes of Mars
Ali M. Bramson,
Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Purdue University,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
9:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
The Provable Effectiveness of Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning and Controls
Sham Kakade,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 10.
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Online Event
Chemical Synthesis Against ‘Undruggable' Targets: From Bacterial Infection to Cancer
Ziyang Zhang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
UC San Francisco,
1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Ensemble averages of torus orbifolds
Nathan Benjamin,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Can We Get to Carbon Neutral Livestock Production?
Ermias Kebreab,
University of California Davis,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
What Can Ancient Materials Teach Us About Designing Sustainable Materials Today?
Admir Masic,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Archaeological Materials,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Online Event
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Computational and data-driven models for modern medicine
Spencer Bryngelson,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
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Structurally Characterizing a New Conformation of the ATPase Get3
Michelle Fry (Jensen Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture
Online Event
Assortative Matching, Innovation Rates, and the Great Divergence
Gary W. Cox (PhD '83),
William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light
Monika Schleier-Smith,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Spacecraft Origami
Online Event
Manan Arya,
Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Lizbeth B. De La Torre,
Creative Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, January 15th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: "Snowballs in the Desert: Studying Climate Transitions in Earth's Deep Past"
Online Event
Dustin Morris,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
New non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral
Jordan Cotler,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Research and Development on New Energies
Online Event
Dr. Amy Kelly,
Caltech alumni, Geochemistry,
Shell Oil,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Estimating model error using sparsity-promoting ensemble Kalman inversion
Jinlong Wu,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Towards realistic post-merger simulations of binary neutron stars with SphericalNR
Vassilios Mewes,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Computational Astrophysics,
Oak Ridge National Lab,
3:00pm
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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Online Event
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Xichen Shi,
PhD Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, January 18th, 2021
8:00am
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
9:00am
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
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Stationary random entire functions and related questions
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Single-Cell Analysis of Normal and Perturbed Early T Cell Developmental Processes
Wen Zhou,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
8:00am
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9:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Florian Dörfler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers
Stephen Smartt,
Professor,
Queens University Belfast,
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
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Predicting the Course of Covid-19 and other epidemic and endemic disease
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
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Universal minimal flows of homeomorphism groups of high-dimensional manifolds
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Why is it so hard to model sea ice?
Cecilia Bitz,
University of Washington,
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
9:00am
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● POSTPONED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been postponed.
Yael Niv,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture: an overview and a new paradigm to address multiple solutions
Laura De Lorenzis,
Professor,
Computational Mechanics,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
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Designing New Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tools to Measure Antibiotic Susceptibility
Emily Savela (Ismagilov Group),
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Neutrino Geoscience: measuring the Earth's neutrino flux and constraining its composition
Hiroko Watanabe,
Tohoku University,
4:00pm
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Rob Myers,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
A family of 3d steady gradient solitons that are flying wings
3:00pm
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The hydrodynamics of rowing
Online Event
The hydrodynamics of rowing
Jerry Westerweel,
Professor,
Delft University of Technology,
4:00pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
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