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Week of January 10, 2021
Monday, January 11th, 2021
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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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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
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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12:00pm
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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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1:30pm
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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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10:00am
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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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1:00pm
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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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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Ensemble averages of torus orbifolds
Nathan Benjamin,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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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5:00pm
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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
8:30am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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9:55am
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A Conversation with Zoom Founder and CEO Eric S. Yuan
Online Event
Eric S. Yuan,
Founder & Chief Executive Officer,
Zoom,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
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Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light
Monika Schleier-Smith,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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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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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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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
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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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4:00pm
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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Xichen Shi,
PhD Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,