Institute Calendar
November 2021
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
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Astronomy Colloquium
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The Debris Disk Paradigm and its Challenges
Mark Wyatt,
Professor of Astronomy,
Institute of Astronomy,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Nanoscale Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Carbon and Water Management
Young-Shin Jun,
Washington University St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quantum Disorder in the Magnetism of Spin-Orbit Entangled AMO2 Delafossites (A=alkali metal, M=metal)
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration
Bernardo Silveira,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics, UCLA,
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Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why it Matters
Online Event
Xie Chen,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Micro-continuum approach for the multi-scale modeling of coupled processes in the subsurface
Cyprien Soulaine,
Associate Scientist,
French National Centre for Scientific Research,,
Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Black Transfigurations: Engineering, African Cosmologies & Visual Media
Mikael Owunna,
Studio Director,
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Structure-function Studies on Sodium, Potassium-ATPase to Selectively Modulate Brain Dysfunctions"
Veronica B. Hubble,
Stoltz Group,
Caltech,
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Geology Club Seminar
Computational data science approaches to paleoecology and paleoclimatology
Hannah Carroll,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
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Physics Colloquium
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Creating and measuring the elusive Majorana fermion
Vidya Madhavan,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
Rising Tides: First Year in Space for NASA's Earth Flagship
Josh Willis,
Lead NASA Scientist for Sentinel-6,
NASA/JPL,
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
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Nc Hodge Learning Seminar
New perspectives on nc Hodge theory
Ludmil Katzarkov,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Miami,
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fun with SUSY defects
Fei Yan,
Rutgers University,
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum error correction meets continuous symmetries: fundamental trade-offs and case studies
Sisi Zhou,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
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Bubble dynamics in a Hele-Shaw cell
Online Event
Anne Juel,
Professor of Fluid Mechanics,
University of Manchester,
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
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Sunday, November 14th, 2021
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
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In Conversation with Laurie Leshin (MS '89, PhD '95), 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
Online Event
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The unbounded denominators conjecture
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Synthesis of Diverse Families of Organic Compounds via Nickel-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Dylan J. Freas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A compactly supported motivic Euler characteristic via the Hochschild complex
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Physics-Informed Machine Learning
George Em Karniadakis,
The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor,
Applied Mathematics and Engineering,
Brown University,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Searching for New Physics at Future Muon Colliders
Cari Cesarotti,
Harvard University,
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Symmetry, Bifurcation and the Landscape Geometry of a Model Shallow Neural Network
Michael Field,
Research Associate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California - Santa Barbara,
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Diverse Minds Seminar with Dr. R. Lee Penn
Online Event
Technical Talk and Personal Story with Dr. R. Lee Penn
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Raman Spectroscopy for Planetary Science: Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
Joby Razzell Hollis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Planetary Sciences,
JPL,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Gender, Electoral Incentives, and Crisis Response: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors
Clemence Tricaud,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Concentration for Trotter error
Anthony (Chi-Fang) Chen,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
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Logic Seminar
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Descriptive complexity of Banach spaces and generic objects
Michal Doucha,
Department of Abstract Analysis,
Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Towards a Better Understanding of Low-mass Galaxies Beyond the Local Group
Shany Danieli,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemo-mechanics of methane migration through deep marine sediments
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Real-time examination of shock-induced structural phase transitions
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches to characterize avalanches and dunes across scales
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic Quaternary and Tetrasubstituted Stereogenic Centers"
Tyler J. Fulton,
Stoltz Group,
Caltech,