Institute Calendar
May 2023
Monday, May 15th, 2023
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
11:00am
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1:00pm
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International Day of Light celebration
High-Q Integrated Photonics
Kerry Vahala,
Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Long-Duration Energy Storage in Reliable Wind and Solar Electricity Systems
Jacqueline Dowling,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
Codimension one stability of the catenoid under the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature flow
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Optical detection of neuroelectric signals using PEDOT electrochromism
Bianxiao Cui,
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Generation and Stability of Jovian Polar Vortices/The Trojan-Like Colors of Low-Perihelion Kuiper Belt Objects
Sihe Chen,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Matthew Belyakov,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Representation in Collective Policymaking: the Veto's Appeal
Gleason Judd,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Politics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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*Postponed - Date TBD* CMX Lunch Seminar
Doubly Noisy Linear Systems and the Kaczmarz Algorithm
Anna Ma,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Geocinema: Earth Sensing as Filmmaking
Asia Bazdyrieva,
Art Historian and Artist,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar
Sub-nominal resolution Fourier transform spectrometry with chip-based frequency combs
Lukasz Sterczewski,
Assistant Professor and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow,
Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems,
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Elves, Dwarfs, and Monsters
Jenny Greene,
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Where is the bottom of the terrestrial water cycle?
Jennifer McIntosh,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Protein acylation-deacylation cycles in cancer and inflammation
Hening Lin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electron correlation and topology in rhombohedral multilayer graphene
4:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture: Gang Chen
Rethinking Evaporation: Thermal and Optical Evaporation from Pure Water and Hydrogels
Gang Chen,
Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Nonparametric Identification of Differentiated Products Demand Using Micro Data
Steven Berry,
David Swensen Professor of Economics and Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy,
Yale University,
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense, Ben Schulze
Insights into the sources of atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases in California
Benjamin Schulze,
Graduate Student, Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Enabling Functional Outcomes by Programming the Responsivity of Liquid Crystalline Polymer
Tim White,
Gallogly Professor of Engineering,
College of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Activation mechanism of the sweet taste heterodimer receptor"
Marta Gonzalvo-Ulla,
Goddard Group,
12:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Quartier: an evolved olivine cumulate rock in the Séítah formation, Jezero crater, Mars; X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Uranium in Zircon and Other Igneous Accessory Phases: A New Zircon Oxybarometer
Shane Houchin & Juan Hernandez Montenegro,
Graduate Students,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Nonlinear Topological Photonics
Mikael Rechtsman,
The Pennsylvania State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
On Meerkats and Marmots: Long-term Research and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
Erika L. Milam,
Charles C. and Emily R. Gillispie Professor in the History of Science; Professor of History,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
Friday, May 19th, 2023
8:00am
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Fracture Behavior of Magnesium: Mechanisms and Mechanics
R. Narasimhan,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Non-Invertible Symmetries in Higher Dimensions
Konstantinos Roumpedakis,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Observation of mHz-level cooperative Lamb shifts in an optical atomic clock
Ross Hutson,
Jun Ye Group,
JILA/University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
R-adaptivity, deep learning and the deep Ritz method
Chris J. Budd,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
University of Bath,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Towards Universal Integrated Laser Sources with Nonlinear Photonics
Luis M. Ledezma,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Stochastic foundations for single-cell RNA sequencing
Gennady Gorin,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Deciphering the Biography of Massive Stars: Compact Object Mergers as a Rosetta Stone
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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