Institute Calendar
February 2023
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Exoplanets and the Road to the Radius Gap
James Rogers,
Postdoc,
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Lower bounding the description complexity of quantum states
Chinmay Nirkhe,
IBM Quantum,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Theories of Planet Formation
Eve Lee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Atomic-Scale Design at the 2D/3D Interface
Kate Reidy,
PhD candidate,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title: TBD
Eviatar Bach,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Imaging the Ultrafast Dynamics of Excitons in Atomically Thin Semiconductors
Alice Kunin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Properties Using an Energy-based Poromechanics Model
Dr. Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
California Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Fast, accurate ranking of engineered proteins by receptor binding propensity using structure modeling"
Xiaozhe Ding,
Gradinaru Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ehrenfest's theorem beyond the Ehrenfest time: non-singular classical limit for general open systems
Jess Riedel,
NTT Research,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Eigenvalues of minors of random matrices and roots of derivatives of random polynomials
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Valuing Technology Workshop
Hanna Breunig,
Deputy-Head of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Posterior Implementability in an N-Person Decision Problem
Axel Niemeyer,
PhD student in Economics,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Infinite trees in the arboreal gas
Noah Halberstam,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
Cambridge University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Algebraic and p-adic aspects of L-functions, with a view toward Spin L-functions for GSp_6
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Understanding Mechanisms for Creating Complex Materials with Built-In Cross-Coupled Responses
Nicole Benedek,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Distinct circadian transcription programs converge to regulate behaviour
Deniz Top,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dalhousie University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 17th, 2023
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
VOAs and RG flows in 4D N=2 Theories
Jacques Distler,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring Arbitrary Physical Properties in Analog Quantum Simulation
Minh Tran,
MIT/IBM,
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Tale of two topics: Bubbles for imaging, therapeutics and tissue engineering and A pair of drops in a viscoelastic medium
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
C-C Coupling and Site Differentiation in Reaction with Carbon Monoxide at an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Model of FeMoco
Linh Le,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 20th, 2023
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
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11:00am
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Moiré Materials and their New Degrees of Freedom
Yuan Cao,
PhD,
Harvard University,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Evolution of the Chinese Firm: Contracts, Hierarchical Management, and Corporate Personality in Shanxi Merchant Enterprises
Matthew Lowenstein,
Hoover Fellow,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Nonlocal particle approximations of the porous medium equation and applications to sampling and two-layer neural networks
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
Nicolas Delfosse,
Microsoft Quantum,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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