Institute Calendar
May 2025
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Multimessenger Perspectives on High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Kohta Murase,
Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, May 16th, 2025
8:00am
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9:30pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Reliable Autonomy Under Uncertainty: From Learning-Based to Non-rational Control
Taylan Kargin,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Soft Metric Fluctuations in Cosmology
Daniel Green,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
Ruslan Shaydulin,
JPMorganChase,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yong Zhang
Wearable/implantable devices for light-based therapy
Professor Yong Zhang,
Chair Professor & Head Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Global STEM Professor Fellow of SAEng, EASA, IEEE, AIMBE & RSC Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modeling Black Hole Accretion with Radiation GRMHD: A Parameter Survey and Connection to Observations
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Beyond Li: Challenges in moving towards earth-abundant battery materials
Michelle Qian,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Harnessing unconventional column and shell buckling for functional architected materials
Lihua Jin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Horowitz-Myers conjecture
Pei-Ken Hung,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Isolating the Effects of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in the Chesapeake Bay from a New GNSS-Constrained Vertical Land Motion Solution
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 17th, 2025
7:30am
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9:30pm
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 18th, 2025
10:00am
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Time-Resolved Proteomic Analysis in Zebrafish and Cultured Neurons Using Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging
Sophie Miller,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Tirrell Lab),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Full-Field Quantitative Visualization of Shock-Driven Pore Collapse in Solids: Mechanics of Deformation, Failure, and Interaction
Barry Lawlor,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design and Application of Complexity Generating Strategies and Transformations in Natural Product Synthesis
Andrea Stegner,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Probing Interfacial Reactivity using Single-Molecule Conductance.
Michael S. Inkpen,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Galactic Population of Quiet Black Holes
Dr. Casey Lam,
Carnegie/Harrison Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Energetics of High-Pressure Faulting
Matej Pec,
Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Neutrino Self-interaction: Motivations and Future Probes
Yue Zhang,
Carleton University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Can Storytelling Save The World?
Attica Locke,
Author, Screenwriter, and Producer,
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBA
Jinghao Cao,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Holly Ingraham
Elucidating Circuits in the Brain and Gut that Drive Female Physiology
Holly Ingraham,
Professor,
Cellular Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California - San Francisco,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structural and mechanistic studies of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum
Vy Nguyen,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
A Glimpse into AI + Science at Google DeepMind: RL for Fusion & AlphaGeometry2
Yuri Chervonyi,
Google DeepMind,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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2025 Harden M. McConnell Lecture
Magnetic Resonance One Spin At A Time
Jörg Wrachtrup,
Professor, Head of Department,
3rd Physics Institute and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,
University of Stuttgart,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Spectral Variability of Earth's Desert Dust Source Regions" & "Ceres' exposed ice: excess, salty, and thermally segregated?"
Abigail Keebler,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Valeriya Kachmar,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series)
Healthcare AI and Machine Personhood
Sara Gerke,
Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar,
College of Law,
University of Illinois,
Boris Babic,
Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law,
University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions
Joshua Zahl,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Loss and Damage Today: How Climate Change is Impacting Output and Capital
James Rising,
Assistant Professor,
School of Marine Science and Policy,
University of Delaware,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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LCSSP Panel - Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
- Public Event
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Myrmecophiles are a Mechanism of Symbiotic Entrenchment
Thomas Naragon,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF HYPERSAMPSONE M AND STUDIES OF RELATED POLYCYCLIC POLYPRENYLATED ACYLPHLOROGLUCINOL SYSTEMS
Adrian Samkian,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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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
Utilizing Engineering to Sustain and Advance Democracy
Gretchen Macht,
Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island & Executive Director of the Engineering for Democracy Instituteute,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Area Fluctuations from Gravitational Phase Space
Temple He,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Biochemical and Structural Basis of Get3d's Role in Photosynthesis
Alexandra Barlow,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Reformulations of Furstenberg's x2x3 conjecture
Jane Panangaden,
Mathematics Field Group,
Pitzer College,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Mariagiovanna Baccara,
Professor of Economics,
Olin School of Business,
Washington University St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Spectra Ex Machina: Spectroscopic Surveys for the Modern Mid-Century
Juna Kollmeier,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Ocean's Role in Shaping Small Fronts
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Catlin Whalen,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemoproteogenomic approaches to stratify the functional and therapeutically relevant proteome
Keriann M. Backus,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Digital twin modeling of blood flow
Shawn Shadden,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Joe Thornton
On the Origins of Hemoglobin: Ancient Proteins at the Evolutionary Edge of Complexity
Joe Thornton,
Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolution,
University of Chicago,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Functional Stimulated Raman Imaging for Quantitative Cell Biology with Small Bioorthogonal Tags
Xiaotian Bi,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,