Institute Calendar
April 2023
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Localized Distribution of Water on the Moon: Evidence from 6 micron SOFIA Observations
William Reach,
Director of SOFIA,
Universities Space Research Association,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
New approaches for turbulence research: Information-theoretic formulation of causality, modeling and control
Adrián Lozano-Durán,
Draper Assistant Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle
John Quah,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Johns Hopkins University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
10:00am
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11:30am
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Cardinalities Below the Power Set of the First Uncountable Cardinals
William Chan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of North Texas,
1:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
On The Origins of the Boltzmann Distribution, or Support Preserving Endomorphisms of Convolution Semigroups, joint with Fedor Sandomirskiy
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Emerging Mechanochemistry of Naphthopyran
Molly E. McFadden,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric Aerosol Formation from Anthropogenic Pollution
Mingyi Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Response of Weyl fermions - topological protection, fragility and cooperation
Haim Beidenkopf,
PhD,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
12:00am
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11:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Jonathan Wolpaw
Heksor: The CNS Substrate of a Skilled Behavior
Jonathan Wolpaw,
Research Physician,
National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wake Dynamics of Oscillating Foils for Energy Harvesting
Jennifer Franck,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm
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KNI Microscopy Seminar
Application of gas field ion source and liquid metal alloy ion source-based focused ion beams
Gregor Hlawacek,
Head of the Ion Induced Nanostructures Group,
Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research,
Helmholtz—Zentrum Dresden—Rossendorf,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Characterizing Sugar Transporters with Biosensors and Cheminformatics
Prof. Lily Cheung,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series
Probing into the deep Earth using Fe and Mg isotopes of diamond inclusions
Peng Ni,
Assistant Professor,
Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Dr. Jerome Mertz
Tools for fast, volumetric microscopy in tissue
Dr. Jerome C. Mertz, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Physics,
Boston University, College of Engineering,
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Oscillating Stars in Bloom: Asteroseismology and Wave Transport Phenomena
Richard Townsend,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
How and what do we know of a work of art?: The Strange Case of Giovanni Morelli and ‘Scientific Connoisseurship'
John Brewer,
Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus,
Caltech,
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7:30pm
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Friday, April 14th, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Thermalization and Chaos from Energy Eigenstates in QFT
Liam Fitzpatrick,
Boston University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
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Information Discrepancy in Strategic Learning
Juba Ziani,
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superconductivity in materials with flat bands: Insights from the quantum geometry
Valerio Peri,
Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Sarah Fletcher,
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow,
Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University,
Dipti D. Nayak,
Assistant Professor,
Division of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Xiao Su,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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Geology Club Seminar Series
A geodetically-constrained petrogenetic model for evolved lavas from the January 1997 fissure eruption of Kilauea Volcano
Melissa Scruggs,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
- Internal Event
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Geology Club Seminar Series: Melissa Scruggs
A geodetically-constrained petrogenetic model for evolved lavas from the January 1997 fissure eruption of Kilauea Volcano
- Internal Event
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Computationally Predicted New Poly-Sulfide Solid-State Lithium-Superionic Conductor
Tridip Das,
Postdoctoral Scholar (MSC (Goddard) Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope
- Public Event
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
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Sunday, April 16th, 2023
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Monday, April 17th, 2023
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RSI Research Seminar
ML-enabled model of underground fluid transport in the presence of chemical reactions
Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Tracing AGN Feedback on the Star-Forming ISM in NGC 7469 with JWST
Thomas Lai,
Caltech/IPAC,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Future is Now: Using JWST for a Fully 3-D Understanding of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Emily Rauscher,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Consensus-Based Interacting Particle Systems and Mean-field PDEs for Optimization and Sampling
Jose A. Carrillo,
Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Going Underground or Listening to the Sky?
Anupam Ray,
UC Berkeley & University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2023