Institute Calendar
March 2021
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Perseverance on Mars
Online Event
Kenneth A. Farley,
W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry at Caltech, and Mars 2020 Project Scientist for NASA/JPL,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, March 11th, 2021
8:00am
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3/14
11:59pm
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8:30am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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9:55am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Benjamin Van Roy,
Professor,
Electrical Engineer and Management Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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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
Directed Evolution of P411 Enzymes for Primary Amination
Shilong Gao (Arnold Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar: Dr. Jeong Hoon Ko (JK)
Online Event
Polymer Coating of Gas Vesicles for Extended Ultrasound Bioimaging
Jeong Hoon Ko (JK),
KNI Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Helicopters in Space
Online Event
Farah Alibay,
Systems Engineer,
Mars 2020,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Timothy Canham,
Mars Helicopter Operations Lead,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, March 12th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Wormholes without averaging
Douglas Stanford,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
APS March Meeting Talks
Steven Wood, Shi-Ning Sun, Hyunjin Kim,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 2
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Robotic surfaces with tunable stiffness and reversible shape-morphing
Online Event
Chiara Daraio
Chiara Daraio,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, March 15th, 2021
8:00am
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3/17
11:59pm
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8:00am
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9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells
Leah Ginsberg,
Ph.D. Thesis Defense,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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11:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
An unpublished theorem of Solovay on OD partitions of reals into two non-OD parts, revisited
Vladimir Kanovei,
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
How to Prevent Traffic Accidents? Moral Hazard, Inattention, and Behavioral Data
Yizhou Jin,
Gilbert Center Postdoctoral Fellow,
Economics Department and Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structured Signal Recovery from Nonlinear Measurements with Applications in Phase Retrieval and Linear Classification
Fariborz Salehi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Toward the Synthesis of a Partial Model of FeMo-co Nitrogenase Cluster
Linh Le,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Electronic Structure Challenges for Strongly Correlated Systems
Laura Gagliardi,
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Water on Mars: Long term bulk evolution and short term seasonal variation
Noora Alsaeed,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Systems Serology to Define Correlates of Immunity to SARS-CoV-2"
Galit Alter,
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Virology,
Harvard Medical School,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
All Day
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data Auctions with Externalities
Munther Dahleh,
Director, IDSS; William A. Coolidge Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
9:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Junta Distance Approximation with Sub-Exponential Queries
Avishay Tal,
Assistant Professor,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Expanding the Chemical Toolbox for Acoustic-based Imaging
Jefferson Chan,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Robust Minimal Instability of the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism
Lars Ehlers,
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Department of Economics,
Université de Montréal,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Origins of Structure in Inner Planetary Systems
Ruth Murray-Clay,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, 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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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
8:00am
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3/28
11:59pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Abstraction and Inference in the Prefrontal Hippocampal Circuitry
Tim Behrens,
Professor of Computational Neuroscience,
Oxford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 3
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
On and Around Magnetars
Zorawar Wadiasingh,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Universities Space Research Association,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Saturday, March 20th, 2021
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Erika Ye,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The DarkSide of the Standard Model: Searching for dark matter DEAP underground with liquid argon
Shawn Westerdale,
INFN and Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Li Reactivity with Solvate Electrolytes for Moderate Temperature Li-S Batteries
Skyler Ware,
Graduate Student (See Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment
Alvine Kamaha,
SUNY Albany,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology
Online Event
"Transcription Dynamics in Living Embryos"
Michael Levine,
Professor,
Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,