Institute Calendar
December 2020
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
The definable content of (co)homological invariants II: definable cohomology and homotopy classification
Jeffrey Bergfalk,
Kurt Gödel Research Center,
University of Vienna,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Atropisomeric Scaffolds, Fluorophores, and Colorimetric Sensors
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Informal Seminar
Online Event
The Double Copy of Electric-Magnetic Duality
Uri Kol,
NYU,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Exoplanet Imaging with Extremely Large Telescopes
Rebecca Jensen-Clem,
Assistant Professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - The Inner Life of the Brain: Fear, Sex, and Violence
Online Event
David J. Anderson,
Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology; Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The hole event for Gaussian complex zeros and the emergence of quadrature domains
10:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Revealing Hidden Dimensions in Soft Materials (or How to Play a Chord on a Rheometer)
James W. Swan,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Cardiac neural crest plasticity and its application to mending congenital heart defects"
Shashank Gandhi (Bronner Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
Haolu (Jane) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, December 11th, 2020
All Day
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: "From Pencil Lead to Skyscrapers: Building the Future with Carbon Nanomaterials"
Online Event
Michael Mazza,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Structure, Dynamics and Degradation of Batteries - From LCO, NCA and NMC-811 to New Materials to Enable Fast Charging
Clare P. Grey,
Fellow Pembroke College Cambridge; Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in Materials Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Human, Scientist
Jennifer Jahner,
Professor of English (HSS),
Kriti Sharma,
Postdoctoral Scholar (GPS),
Charles Xu,
Graduate Student in Physics (PMA),
Maura Dykstra,
Assistant Professor of History (HSS),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Neuro Afternoon Meeting via Zoom
David Khan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
BBE,
Caltech,
Yue Xu,
Graduate Student,
Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Iman Wahle,
Scholar,
Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Angular momentum in Einstein-Maxwell theory
Alexander Grant,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
University of Virginia,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Saturday, December 12th, 2020
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Monday, December 14th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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5:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap
Online Event
"Fantastic Meteors and Where to Find Them" and "What the Arrokoth (MU69) Flyby Teaches Us About Planet Formation"
- Public Event
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
10:00am
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10:50am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
"Multiscale, data-driven and nonlocal modeling of granular materials"
Konstantinos Karapiperis,
Graduate Student,
Applied Mechanics,
Caltech,
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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11:50am
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Mathematics Colloquium
Online Event
Phase transitions in hyperbolic space
Tom Hutchcroft,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
"Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems"
Richard Cheng,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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11:45am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Density Fluctuations and Machine Learning in Active Matter
Austin Dulaney,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, December 17th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions
Daphna Shohamy,
Professor,
Department of Psychology & Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute,
Columbia University,
10:30am
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10:45am
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Friday, December 18th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Post-Anthropocene Computation: Rewilding the Quantum Field
Natalie Klco,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Iwnetim Abate,
DARE Doctoral Fellow,
Material Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Iwnetim Abate,
DARE Doctoral Fellow,
Materials Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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