Institute Calendar
March 2025
Monday, March 10th, 2025
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Jinghao Cao,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Unsymmetric Coordination Environment of Bimetallic Active Sites".
Shiyu Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Effusive Volcanism as a Window into Planetary Evolution
Joana Voigt,
Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Cascade of strongly correlated quantum states in a partially filled kagome flat band
Professor Berthold Jaeck,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Stiffness and Shape Changing Structured Media
Tracy Lu,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Complex materials through simple chemistry
Grigorii Skorupskii,
postdoctoral scholar,
Chemistry,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
From muscle to memory: role of periodic ER-plasma membrane junctions in supporting long-range Ca2+ signal integration in dendrites
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,
Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology,
Janelia Research Campus,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Matrix Processing: Complexity and Application to Partition Function Estimation
Thais de Lima Silva,
Technology Innovation Institute (TII Abu Dhabi),
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Canceled: DIX Planetary Science Seminar
NEOMOD: Dynamical Model of Near-Earth Objects from a Decade of Catalina Sky Survey Observations
David Nasvorny,
Institute Scientist,
Department of Space Studies,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Shane Ardo,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Precision Measurement of Positrons and Radioactive Molecules for New Physics
Xing Fan,
Northwester University & Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Propagation of waves with low regularity
Jared Wunsch,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Don't Use Machine Learning To Evaluate Grants
Kathleen Creel,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science,
Northeastern University,
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Advanced Nano Manufacturing Enables Probing Fundamental Mechanical Behaviors of Materials
Wenxin Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Paul Gronke,
Professor of Political Science, Reed College; Founder and Director, Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC),
Paul Manson,
Research Assistant Professor, Portland State University Center for Public Service,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A geometric formulation of the cosmological wavefunction
Carolina Figueiredo,
Princeton University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ripples in a trillion-degree soup of quarks and gluons
Yi Chen,
Vanderbilt University,
12:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Diffractively generated resonances and trace formulae
Jared Wunsch,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Mechanics of Publishing: The industry, the process, and journal metrics
Dr. Brian Solis,
Senior Journal Manager,
AIP Publishing,
3:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Unveiling the Intracluster Medium Kinematics in the New Era of High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy
Irina Zhuravleva,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Life in a tight spot: Dynamics of bacterial life in complex spaces
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing the Standard Model to 0.37 ppm with the muon anomalous magnetic moment
Laurent Lellouch,
Aix-Marseille Universite, Universite de Toulon, CNRS,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium
Ariel Pakes,
Thomas Professor of Economics,
Harvard University,
4:30pm
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Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture
In Conversation with Eric Schmidt: AI Future(s)
Eric Schmidt,
Former CEO & Chairman, Google, KBE,
- Public Event
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
8:00am
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3/16
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Advances in Turbulent Drag Reduction for Energy-Efficient Transportation
Matt K. Fu,
Research Scientist,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Odor mortis and the neural basis of olfactory function in Calliphoridae" and "To Flex or Flee?: How Multimodal Sensory Integration Shapes Rove Beetle Interspecies Interactions"
Betty Hong,
Professor of Neuroscience, Chen Scholar,
BBE,
Caltech,
Jess Kanwal,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
BBE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Unveiling Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Gravitational Waves
Jean Schütte-Engel,
UC Berkeley & RIKEN,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The relationship between soft and edge modes
Goncalo Regado,
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fixed-point tensor network construction for rational conformal field theory
Zheng-Cheng Gu,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Non-reciprocal active matter across scales
Ramin Golestanian,
Director,
Max Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Anharmonic Vibrational Dynamics in Crystals: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How Raman Spectroscopy Uncovers It
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Transcendence properties of p-adic period mappings
Christian Klevdal,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Centaur Science: Particle Physics meets Machine Learning
Jesse Thaler,
MIT,
4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Scaling up reinforcement learning theories of cognition
Wilka Carvahlo,
Kempner Research Fellow,
Kempner Institute,
Harvard University,
Friday, March 14th, 2025
11:00am
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APhMS Special Seminar
New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials
Andrea Cavalleri,
Professor,
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, University of Oxford,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Mathematical Structures in Scattering Amplitudes
Anastasia Volovich,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Emergent Gauge Fields and the "Choi-Spin Liquids" in Steady States
Kaixiang Su,
UC Santa Barbara,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Flavor Physics from Quantum Entanglement?
Jesse Thaler,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The dynamics of spin-precessing and eccentric black hole binaries
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Real Heegaard Floer homology
Gary Guth,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, Wenzheng Heng
Smart Masks for in situ Exhaled Breath Condensate Harvesting and Analysis
Wenzheng Heng, Ph.D. Candidate,
Wei Gao Lab,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Oxo-mechanical regulation of cellular behavior
Tapomoy Bhattacharjee,
Professor,
National Centre for Biological Sciences,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Saturday, March 15th, 2025
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11:00pm
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