Institute Calendar
April 2025
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Illuminating the complex mechanics of a simple breath
Mona Eskandari,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine's multidisciplinary BREATHE Center,
University of California, Riverside,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Understanding the oncogenic transcription factor Lmo2 in its native role during T cell development
Samantha Chang,
Graduate Student,
Rothenberg Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Uniform bounds for degrees of maps from curves to hyperbolic varieties
Jackson Morrow,
Mathematics Department,
University of North Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons: What You Can Do
Fred Lamb,
UIUC,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, April 25th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Acoustic Radiation in Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers: Deciphering Linear Dynamics
Gregory Stroot,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Conformal Manifolds from Topological Gauging and Continuous SymTFTs
Ho Tat Lam,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Control, Readout, and Entanglement of Molecular Qubits
Lewis Picard,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Medical Engineering Defense, Samuel Solomon
Generalizing wearable affective intelligence
Samuel Solomon, Ph.D. Candidate,
Gao Research Group,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense: Challenges to Defending the United States
Professor Frederick K. Lamb,
Research Professor of Physics,
Program on Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Department of Physics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The ocean carbon sink: From global budgets to mCDR additionality
Galen McKinley,
Professor,
Columbia Climate School,
Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Positive scalar curvature on trivial and nontrivial circle bundles
Aditya Kumar,
Department of Mathematics,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Photodriven Approaches to Sm Catalysis
Drew Tarnopol,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Machine-learning observed and simulated ground motions for engineering applications
Domniki Asimaki,
Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 26th, 2025
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HACKTECH Keynote: Anima Anandkumar
AI+Science: How can AI make groundbreaking scientific discoveries?
Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar,
Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
- Public Event
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 27th, 2025
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 28th, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Asymmetric Transformations from Palladium Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Kaylin (Kali) Flesch,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Essays on Political Accountability and Representation
Jacob Morrier,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Harnessing locality for scalable strongly correlated electron simulations
Linqing Peng,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar
"Metallacarbatrane and Related Platforms for the Synthesis of Main Group Metal Hydride Compounds and Catalysts for the Reduction of CO2"
Gerard Parkin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Probing the limits of individual amino acid isotope data: toward multi- million year biogeochemical and ecological reconstruction using marine fossils
Matthew McCarthy,
Professor,
Physical and Biological Sciences Division Ocean Sciences Department Institute of Marine Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio
Anson Hook,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Nonlinear Magneto-Optics of van der Waals magnet CrSBr
Liuyan Zhao,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
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Kroc Lecture - Carla Shatz
Does neural development have lessons for Alzheimer's disease?
Carla Shatz,
Professor,
Biology and Neurobiology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Why don't plants get sunburn?
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachussetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape" & "Detection of New Auroral Emissions from Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus"
Xuan Ji,
Graduate Student,
Department of Geophysical Sciences,
University of Chicago,
Zachariah Milby,
Graduate Student,
Department of 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 Makes a World War? A Structural Analysis of Integration
Joseph Ruggiero,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Finite quotients of 3-manifold groups
Melanie Matchett Wood,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Feynman-Vernon goes cosmic: path integrals for cosmological open systems
Gregory Kaplanek,
Syracuse University,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Criticality and Anyon Superconductivity: Two Routes to Beyond BCS Superconductors
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Continuity and strictness of measurable cocycles
Christian Rosendal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland-College Park,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Dr. Pooneh Maghoul,
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure and geo-engineering Research Laboratory (SIGLab),
Institute for Water, Environment and Health,
Polytechnique Montréal,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Kinematic varieties for massless particles
Svala Sverrisdóttir,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
James Webb Space Telescope Breakthroughs in Galaxy Formation
Nadia Zakamska,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar: Ilan Shomorony
Ilan Shomorony,
Assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Paleoclimate and Historical Perspectives on Modern Climate Sensitivity
Vince Cooper,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Beginning to understand light-mediated Ni catalysis using physical organic techniques and data science
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition
Eddie Dekel,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,