Institute Calendar
May 2023
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
5:00pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online and In-Person Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
8:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Flow, transport, and mixing limited processes in confined & heterogeneous media
Pietro De Anna,
Professor,
Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE),
University of Lausanne (UNIL),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inevitable Large non-Gaussianity from Curvaton Models
Jackie Lodman,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Uncertainty and Decentralization: Two Themes in an Energy Transformation
Lucien D. Werner,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Interaction Specificity in Protein Short Linear Motifs
Amy Keating,
Jay A. Stein Professor of Biology,
Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microfluidics for quantitative and high-throughput biophysics, biochemistry, and single-cell biology
Prof. Polly Fordyce,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics,
Department of Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
What can titanium isotopes tell us about plate subduction during the Hadean-Archean?
Sarah Aarons,
Assistant Professor,
Geosciences, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Feynman and Computation
Tony Hey,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK,
John Preskill,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 26th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structure and Mechanism of the Human ER Membrane Protein Complex
Giovani Pinton Tomaleri,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Kallen-Lehman representations in de Sitter spacetime
Zimo Sun,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A Chiral Light-matter Interface with Superconducting Qubits
Chaitali Joshi,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mirhosseini Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A New Supertranslation-Invariant Angular Momentum Flux in Gravitational Scattering
Massimo Porrati,
New York University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Acoustic Biomolecules for Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
Bill Ling,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Inclined Planetary Systems due to Secular Resonances in Dispersing Protoplanetary Disks
J.J. Zanazzi,
51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of California Berkeley,,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics and performance of wind-energy systems in unsteady flow conditions
Nathaniel Wei,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
General Copper-Catalyzed C–N Coupling to Access N–Tertiary Alkyl Amines: Synthesis and Mechanism.
Hyungdo Cho,
Graduate Student (Fu Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 27th, 2023
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, May 28th, 2023
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 29th, 2023
All Day
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar
The Stochastic Heat Equation with multiplicative Lévy noise
Quentin Berger,
Laboratoire de Probabilites Statistique et Modelisation, Sorbonne Universite,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Jahan Dawlaty,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Characterizing Hot, Rocky Exoplanets in the Era of JWST/TOI-1259 A b: A Gas Giant's Origin Story Revealed in Metastable Helium
Kim Paragas,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Morgan Saidel,
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
Labor Union and Social Insurance
Hanming Fang,
Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
A24's Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt
Jordan Brower,
Assistant Professor of English,
University of Kentucky,
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense, Harrison Parker
Harrison Parker,
Graduate Student Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Online Event
Active volume: An architecture for efficient fault-tolerant quantum computers with limited non-local connections
Daniel Litinski,
PsiQuantum,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Decoding spatial stochastic RNA dynamics from imaging data with point process inference
Christopher Miles,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics Center for Complex Biological Systems NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Advancements in Hemodynamic Measurement: Arterial Resonance, Ultrasound, and Machine Learning
Dominic Yurk,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Proper time from correlators in QFT and holography
Allic Sivaramakrishnan,
Particle Theory Group,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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