Institute Calendar
December 2022
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
12:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Marcos Nazareth Gallo,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
What's in a Shadow? Past, Present, and Future of Black Hole Imaging
Heino Falcke,
Professor of Astroparticle Physics & Radio Astronomy,
Radboud University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Soil moisture controls on weather: new insights from models and observations
Kaighin A. McColl,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Prizes and effort in contests with private information
Sumit Goel,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adventures in Applied Fluid Mechanics
Sheldon Green,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Temporal changes in membrane lipid content orchestrate cell invasion during development"
Michael Piacentino,
Bronner Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Langlands correspondence for p-adic classical groups via isomorphisms of Hecke algebras
Anne-Marie Aubert,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche,
Sorbonne Université,
Friday, December 9th, 2022
All Day
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Catalysed Vacuum Decay
Michael Nee,
University of Oxford,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Planetary migration and engulfment on the post-main-sequence
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, December 10th, 2022
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Monday, December 12th, 2022
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Ultralight dark matter searches with atom multi-gradiometry
Leonardo Badurina,
Kings College,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Frontier in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Series
The Chemistry of Quantum Materials
Prof. Leslie M. Schoop,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
HALPHA: an HST search for accreting protoplanets in transition disk gaps
Yifan Zhou,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Title: Quasi-periodic driving: a tool in the quantum mechanic's toolbox
Anushya Chandran,
Boston University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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MedE Ph.D. Thesis Defense, Lealia Xiong
Online and In-Person Event
Thesis title: Expanding the toolbox for thermal control of E. coli: Cold-activated transcription with applications in temperature self-regulation
Lealia Xiong,
Medical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The Role of Entanglement for Function Estimation with Quantum Sensor Networks
Jacob Bringewatt,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Studies on Off-Nominal Rotor Aerodynamics for eVTOL Aircraft
Ellande Tang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
"Random-matrix theory of the measurement-induced phase transition in all-to-all interacting Floquet quantum circuits"
Aleksei Khindanov,
University of California Santa Barbara,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Optimal receptivity and the generalization of the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) Equations to complex high-speed boundary layers and jets
Omar Kamal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, December 16th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Large N Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Quantum Memory
Gong Cheng,
University of Maryland,
Monday, December 19th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Characteristic Functions for Cosmological Cross-Correlations
Patrick Breysse,
NYU Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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