Institute Calendar
February 2020
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Narayanan Rengaswamy,
Graduate Student,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ultrafast Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polaritons
Wei Xiong,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Overturning Ocean Circulations in Ocean Worlds" and "Observations of Exoplanetary Mass Loss with Ultra-Narrowband Helium Photometry"
Shreyas Vissapragada & Ana Lobo,
Graduate Students,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Regulation of Cardiopharyngeal Fates in Chordates"
Lionel Christiaen,
Associate Professor,
Biology,
New York University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Emergent Ferromagnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Aaron Sharpe,
PhD Candidate,
Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
6:15pm
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8:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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IUPAC Global Breakfast — Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders
IUPAC Global Breakfast — Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders
- Public Event
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Automating Resolution is NP-Hard
Albert Atserias,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Non-Archimedean tsi Polish groups, and obstructions to Borel reducibility
Shaun Allison,
Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Steve Flammia,
Professor,
University of Sydney,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Spitzer and the High Redshift Universe: Approaching Cosmic Dawn
Richard Ellis,
Professor of Astrophysics,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Graph Signal Processing for Machine Learning Applications: New Insights and Algorithms
Antonio Ortega,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What's on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools
Nagissa Mahmoudi,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
A safari through thousands of 2D materials guided by data science
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Journey to the Arctic
Erin Burkett,
ESL Graduate Writing Instructor; Lecturer in Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Fluctuations in the Life of a Cell: Maintaining Order Amidst Disorder
Vikram Deshpande,
Professor,
Department of Materials Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanomaterial Platforms for Transgene-Free Plant Genetic Engineering
Gözde Demirer,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Friday, February 14th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave Photons
Clai Owens,
Research Scientist,
Painter Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Micro-mechanics of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre composites
Vikram Deshpande,
Professor,
Materials Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Chemistry Matched with Mechanical and Computational Machines for Rapid Synthesis and Delivery of Proteins
Bradley Pentelute,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 15th, 2020
11:00am
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Menzies Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hsieh Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 17th, 2020
8:00am
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9:00am
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
9:00am
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9:00am
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1:30pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The key for planet formation: The Circumplanetary Disk
Judit Szulagyi,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Horowitz Lecture Series
"The Cellular and Molecular Logic of Spinal Cord Development"
James Briscoe,
Group Leader,
The Francis Crick Institute,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
A comparison between model categories for concurrency
Josh Lieber,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Social Science Job Candidate
This seminar has been canceled.
Katherine Wagner,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Super-Eddington Accretion
Ramesh Narayan,
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Surface turbulent heat fluxes control storm track intensity from cold to warm climates
Tiffany Shaw,
University Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones
Earl Campbell,
EPSRC Research Fellow,
University of Sheffield,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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