Institute Calendar
May 2023
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Photo-polymerization of Collagen using a Photobase"
Akash Dhawan,
Greer Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Topological frequency conversion in Weyl semimetals
Frederik Nathan,
Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics,
University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar Series
A thermodynamic and molecular model for ion channel and transporter dimerization in membranes
Janice Roberston,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Washington University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Power, Noise and Scaling of Earth's Surface: Disentangling Causes of Landscape Evolution
Gareth G. Roberts,
Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences,
Department of Earth, Science, and Engineering,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Dr. Samir Mitragotri
A Hitchhiker's and Backpacker's Approach to Drug Delivery
Professor Samir Mitragotri,
Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Deep Synoptic Array: the origins of fast radio bursts
Vikram Ravi,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Organizing a Kingdom
Nico Voigtlander,
Professor of Economics,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Visual Storytelling Before Comics: Theorizing the Sequential Image
Rachel Teukolsky,
Professor of English,
Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
A Celebration of Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Yolanda Gonzalez,
Artist,
Betty Avila,
Executive Director,
Self Help Graphics and Art,
Dr. Claudia Zapata,
UCLA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicano/a Studies,
UCLA,
Dr. J.V. Decemvirale,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Caltech,
Friday, May 12th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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8:30am
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7:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Lighting up the brain: Wafer-scale integrated photonics for implantable neural interfaces
Joyce Poon,
Max Planck Institute,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An On-Shell Approach to Self-Force on Gravitational Plane Waves
Andrea Cristofoli,
University of Edinburgh,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Arrovian Social Choice and Decentralizability: An Integrated Approach
Wonki Jo Cho,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Korea University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4
Xinwei Li,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Instanton Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory
Jingyuan Chen,
Tsinghua University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning
Maegan Tucker,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Interactions of shock waves and turbulence through numerical simulations
Ivan Bermejo-Moreno,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Random Tessellation Forests
Eliza O'Reilly,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Assembly of Complex Carbocyclic Scaffolds via Palladium and Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclizations."
Allison Stanko,
Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 13th, 2023
7:30am
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, May 14th, 2023
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 15th, 2023
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design Rules for Multi-electron Systems in Next-Generation Batteries: from Mg electrode-electrolyte interface to anion redox activation in Li-rich Sulfides
Seong Shik (Steve) Kim,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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INQNET Seminar Series
Entanglement of trapped-ion qubits separated by 230 meters
Tracy Northup,
University of Innsbruck,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Low-Power and Miniaturized Medical Electronics for In-Vivo Localization and Tracking
Saransh Sharma,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of a novel platform for mechanochemical multicolor lithography and models for solution-phase mechanophore activation
Anna Overholts,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Mo' Data, No Problem: Into the Age of Industrial Scale Astronomy
Xinlun Cheng,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Paleoclimate data assimilation: New views of past climates
Jessica Tierney,
Professor, Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science,
Department of Geosciences,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Challenges for nuclear physics in accelerator-based neutrino experiments
Alexis Nikolakopoulos,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Realizing non-Abelian statistics using graph gauge theory on a quantum processor