Institute Calendar
May 2025
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
11:00am
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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,
12:00pm
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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,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Flow physics drives adaptations in single and colonial eukaryotes
Eva Kanso,
Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California (USC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Modern analogs and the (unlikely) paucity of pre-vegetation meandering rivers
Michael Hasson,
Ph.D. Candidate in Geological Sciences,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Diophantine problems arising from tetrahedra
Christopher Lyons,
Department of Mathematics,
California State University, Fullerton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Uncovering mechanisms of RNA transport
Vihandha Wickramasinghe,
Professor, Laboratory Head,
Genetics and Gene Regulation,
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, May 23rd, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A connection between non-invertible symmetries and quantum error correction
Ning Bao,
Northeastern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Impulsive hydrodynamic instabilities in liquid fragmentation and disease transmission.
Naijian Shen,
Postdoctoral researcher,
Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Influence of the dark first structures
M. Sten Delos,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
Carnegie Observatories,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
From phase transitions to minimal submanifolds in low codimensions
Davide Parise,
Mathematics Department,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Divergent Catalysis: Dissolving Metal-Type Reductions Under Sm(II/III) Catalysis
Nathan Friede,
Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Quantifying uncertainty in slow and fast solid Earth processes via reduced-order models
Dave May,
Associate Professor of Geophysics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 24th, 2025
Sunday, May 25th, 2025
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, May 26th, 2025
All Day
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Evolution of Gaussians in the Hellinger-Kantorovich-Boltzmann gradient flow
Oliver Tse,
Associate Professor of the Applied Analysis Group,
the Centre for Analysis Scientific Computing and Applications (CASA),
Eindhoven University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBA
Oliver Tse,
Associate Professor,
Applied Analysis group of the Centre for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA),
Eindhoven University of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Behavioral Foundations of Model Misspecification
Aislinn Bohren,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"Towards ab initio simulations of driven and non-equilibrium systems through novel theoretical and numerical approaches
Vojtech Vlcek,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Callisto's Non-Resonant Orbit as an Outcome of Circum-Jovian Disk Substructure" & "From Earths to Super-Earths: Four New Small Planets Transiting M Dwarf Stars"
Tony Yap,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Jonathan Gomez-Barrientos,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetomechanical detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Giacomo Marocco,
LBNL, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series)
All Learning is Generative
Boris Babic,
Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law,
University of Hong Kong,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online Event
Legendrian knots and Lagrangian fillings
Honghao Gao,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering: PhD Thesis Defense
Hierarchical Control: Constructive Theory and Application to Legged Robots
Noel Csomay-Shanklin,
Graduate Student,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Computational Methods for Nucleic Acid Structure Prediction and G Protein-Coupled Receptor Mechanism Investigation
Marta Gonzalvo I Ulla,
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
A Conversation on AI and Governance in Elections
Betsy Sinclair,
Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformations, the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, and Chair of the Political Science Department,
Washington University in St. Louis,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Physical Instabilities and the phase of the Euclidean Path integral
Victor Ivo,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Kilometer-scale material heterogeneities relevant to earthquake generation on the Japan subduction plate interface
Yihe Huang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detector operators in quantum gravity
Murat Kologlu,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Well-posedness for the Schrodinger maps equation with initial data small in a Besov space
Benjamin Dodson,
Department of Mathematics,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Quantum Black Hole Entropy from a Localization Integral
Matthew Heydeman,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Ultrafast Quadratic Nonlinear Dynamics and Soliton Formation in Parametric Amplifiers and Oscillators
Robby Gray,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Joshua Winn,
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Harnessing microbiomes in a changing climate
Steve Allison,
University of California Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploiting automatic image processing and in-situ transmission electron microscopy to understand the stability of supported nanoparticles
Erich Stach,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter; Scientific Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Theory of Electoral Turnout Based on Free-Riding Aversion
Laurent Bouton,
Professor of Economics,
Georgetown University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 29th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A non-ergodic ground motion model for the Groningen, Netherlands: Merging physics-based and recorded data
Grigorios (Greg) Lavrentiadis,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Synthetic Protein Circuits: From Fundamentals to Therapeutics"
Shiyu Xia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision QCD and Parton Shower matching for LHC event simulations
Christian Biello,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics, Boltzmannstrasse 8, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Dynamic Safety Under Uncertainty: A Control Barrier Function Approach
Ryan Cosner,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Importance of Physiological Temperature in Biomedical and Biophysical Research
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
CANCELED: Colloidal Science and Soft Matter Physics: The Uncredited Co-Authors of Every Microbial Biofilm
Patrick Secor,
Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Using meandering rivers to study the present and future carbon fluxes from Arctic landscapes
Emily Geyman,
Graduate Student Researcher,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Xiaodong Xu,
Boeing Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Human Energy: A Conversation about Art, Power, and Resource Extraction
Jessica Segall,
Lecturer in Visual Culture and Spring 2025 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Brian Jacobson,
Professor of Visual Culture,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 2025
8:00am
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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
Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
Dan Kapec,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics
Haifeng Xu,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
To reset, or not to reset -- that is the question
Gyorgy Geher,
Riverlane,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Multielectron Redox in Lithium-Rich, Industrial-Element Sulfides for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
Eshaan Patheria,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modelling the kilonovae from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: From Photospheric to Nebular Phase
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Building closed-loop frameworks for AI-guided protein design
Alec Lourenço,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,