Institute Calendar
April 2021
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
10:30am
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Overcoming Chromatin to Change Cell Fate"
Kenneth Zaret,
Professor,
Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of Pennsylvania,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Paul McEuen (Cornell University)
Online Event
Microscopic Robots?
Paul McEuen,
John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science and the Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science,
Cornell University,
- Public Event
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Na Li,
Gordon McKay Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS),
Harvard University,
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Volatile organic compound emissions from Arctic ecosystems
Riikka Rinnan,
University Copenhagen,
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Andrea Lincoln,
Postdoc,
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
Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in Membraneless Organelles and the Stressed Proteome
Xin Zhang,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Adam Tauman Kalai,
Senior Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research,
Ehud Kalai,
James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Northwestern University,
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
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Knocking at the Gravitational Wave Door
Maura McLaughlin,
Eberly Family Distinguished Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
West Virginia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Online Event
Rich Rocks, the Climate Crisis, and the Tech Imperium
Sophia Kalantzakos,
Visiting Fellow in the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology (2020-2021), Caltech; Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, New York University,
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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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
Choosing, fast and slow: Implications of prioritized-sampling models for understanding automaticity and control
Cendri Hutcherson,
Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Decision Neuroscience,
University of Toronto,
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
Online Event
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Prof. Austin J. Minnich,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Multi-functional metamaterials
Sai Sharan Injeti,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
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
Broad sarbecovirus cross-reactivity exhibited by a subset of COVID-19 donor-derived neutralizing antibodies
Claudia Jette (Bjorkman Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The distribution of closed geodesics on the modular surface
Alexandre Perozim de Faveri,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
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 - Science on Ice: What Ice Says About Past, Present, and Future Climate
Online Event
Alex Gardner,
Glacier Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, April 16th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Dynamics of 1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theories and Exotic Symmetries
Zohar Komargodski,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Fernando Brandão,
Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Quantum Algorithms AWS,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Speculative Worlds: Imagining Past and Future Science
Aimee Bahng,
Pomona College,
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata,
University of San Francisco,
Silvia Moreno-Garcia,
Novelist,
Enid Baxter Ryce,
Cal State Monterey Bay,
Banu Subramaniam,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Lisa Weasel,
Portland State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Thermodynamic and Mechanistic Studies of CO2 Reduction Catalysts
Caroline T. Saouma,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Utah,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
A hidden Markov model search for gravitational waves from twelve young supernova remnants
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Bhavini Singh,
Ph.D. candidate,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Operator algebras and the emergence of spacetime
Elliott Gesteau,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
Endless Hunt for Black Holes
Wenbin Lu,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
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Sunday, April 18th, 2021
8:00am
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2:00pm
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Monday, April 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games
Xiaomin Li,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Dark photons and the cosmic radiation background
Hongwan Liu,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Nitrogen-Containing Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons Relevant to Electrocatalysis
Gavin Heim,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
10:00am
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10:50am
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11:00am
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11:50am
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Ionic transport in nanoscale fluids far from equilibrium
David Limmer,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Aida Behmard,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Qicheng Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institue of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Making Bio-Interfaces with Evolutionary Success: Lessons From the Bird"
Cheng-Ming Chuong, MD, PhD,
Professor,
Pathology,
University Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Efficiency with Political Power Dynamics and Costly Policy Change
Hülya Eraslan,
Ralph O'Connor Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Necmiye Ozay,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Kazim Ali,
Professor of Literature, Creative Writing,
UC San Diego,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
Photoenzymatic Catalysis - Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Itai Ashlagi,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,