Institute Calendar
May 2025
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5/6
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation
Kaitlin Luedecke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
José Yáñez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Root recovery for infection processes on trees and graphs
Louigi Addario-Berry,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
Reginald Anderson,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad,
Frank M. Tiller Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Remote Sensing Methods for Measuring River Mobility
Evan Greenberg,
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series: Nobel Laureate, Professor Eric Betzig
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig,
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle
Jordan Ellenberg,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
TBA
Miklos Racz,
Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards quantum simulating holographic duality
Julian Sonner,
University of Geneva,
11:00am
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezić,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
Xiaolong Hans Han,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits.
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
10:00am
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12:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Chetana Sachidanandan
Disease models in zebrafish reveal hidden neurocristopathies
Chetana Sachidananda,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Murali Dharan Bashyam
New revelations from an old disease: studying somatic DNA aberrations in a poorly understood Colorectal cancer subtype unravels neomorphic gain of function and a novel mode of gene activation
Murali Dharan Bashyam,
Staff Scientist,
Molecular Oncology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Matthew Gherman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Stabilizing Halide-Based Redox Active Materials for Rechargeable Battery Applications
Alexis Grimaud,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the Evolution of the Arctic
Justin Strauss,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Darmouth College,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
Jake Rudolph,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Market Entry with Many Potential Entrants
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Dynamic Control of Radiative Thermal Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Characterizing Bare-Rock Exoplanets in the Era of JWST" & "Initial Results from the First Mass Loss Survey of Gas Giants Orbiting F Stars"
Kim Paragas,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Morgan Saidel,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Stark's Conjectures and Explicit Class Field Theory
Samit Dasgupta,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Quantifying Inefficiency
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe
Misha Usatyuk,
KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar with Dr. Christian Haffner
Christian Haffner,
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
imec,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Forcing and Borel Equivalence Relations
Dima Sinapova,
Mathematics Department,
Rutgers University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science Lunch Talk
Average Treatment Effects in Exchangeable Random Arrays
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Time Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Christopher Kochanek,
Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal
Jean-Francois Houde,
Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair,
Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Advances in Eulerian Modeling: Compaction, Multiphase Flow, and Plasticity
Nicolas Favrie,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Aix-Marseille University,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles" and "Lineage tracing in the developing placenta through space and time"
Joani Viliunas,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
Martin Tran,
Graduate Student,
BBE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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