Institute Calendar
March 2023
Thursday, March 9th, 2023
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Materials Mechanics for Health and Sustainability
Xuanhe Zhao,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Scaling up reusable DNA strand-displacement circuits using heat as a universal energy source"
Tianqi Song,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Qian Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - George C. Valley, Aerospace
Reservoir computing using laser speckle in multimode waveguides
George C. Valley,
The Aerospace Corporation,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Diagenetic overprints associated with the clay-sulfate transition in Gale crater, Mars & The Behavior of Fluorine in Granitic Melts
Tina Seeger,
Graduate student,
Geology,
Caltech,
Oliver Wilner,
Graduate student,
Geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Ineffective Field Theory
Lisa Randall,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
An Isomorphism Theorem for Anharmonic Fields and Scaling Limits
Jean-Dominique Deuschel,
Technical University Berlin,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Chemical distances for long-range percolation
Johannes Bäumler,
Technical University of Munich,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, March 10th, 2023
8:00am
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4:30pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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11:45am
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Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Personalized Medicine
Online Event
- Public Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Line Defects in CFTs: from Spin Impurities to Wilson Lines
Avia Raviv-Moshe,
SUNY Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Recommending to Strategic Users: Avoiding the Perils of Strategy-Oblivious Recommendation Algorithms
Chara Podimata,
FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley and The Simons Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Filament Based Plasma
Oliver Gross,
Doctoral Student in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Technische Universität Berlin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Large genus asymptotics in flat surfaces
Amol Aggarwal,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
8:00am
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3/14
11:59pm
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Monday, March 13th, 2023
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Recent Advances in the Reductive Chemistry of Rare-Earth and Actinide Metals
William J. Evans,
UC Irvine Distinguished Professor; Director, Eddleman Quantum Institute,
Department of Chemistryp,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Where the wheels fall off: stellar rotation period distributions in the "worst case" scenarios
Mark Popinchalk,
CUNY/AMNH,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Fun with Chemical Physics: From Controlling Hot Electron Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanostructures to Frequency Comb "Breathalyzer" Detection of COVID!
David Nesbitt,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder and NIST,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Influence of Tidal Heating on the Habitability of Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
Juliette Becker,
51 Peg Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added
Ben Handel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
8:00am
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3/17
11:59pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Learning correlated noise in a 39-qubit quantum processor
Robin Harper,
University of Sydney,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Using Models to Inform Atmospherically Relevant Laboratory Measurements of Aerosol Formation Reactions
Hannah Kenagy,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using models to inform atmospherically relevant laboratory measurements of aerosol formation reactions
Hannah Kenagy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier
Annie Liang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, March 16th, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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DEI/DICI SEMINAR
A Dreamer's Pathway to Become a Professor: Tips and Tricks
Osvaldo Gutierrez,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Texas A & M University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
eROSITA on SRG: Mapping the Hot Universe
Andrea Merloni,
Senior Scientist,
High Energy Astrophysics,
Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Dissecting Protein Folding on the Ribosome – from Single Molecules to Living Cells
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Fundraising - Part 1
Carly Anderson,
Principal,
Prelude Ventures,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Some Puzzles and Research Opportunities in Soft Materials
Prof. Steve Granick,
Director,
Center for Soft and Living Matter,
Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Ancient water-formed landscapes and past climates on Earth and Mars
Abdallah S. Zaki,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 17th, 2023
All Day
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A topological pump driven by non-Hermitian dynamics in a quantum gas
Alex Baumgaertner,
Institute for Quantum Electronics,
ETH Zurich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Physical insights from the smallest galaxies in our Universe
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar
In silico Design and Optimization of Abundant Energy Materials
Pieremanuele (Piero) Canepa,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent and Diasteroselective Alienation of Secondary Alkyl Electrophiles: Concurrent Generation of Point and Axial Chirality
Asik Hossain,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Fu Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 18th, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Monday, March 20th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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