Institute Calendar
November 2023
Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
2:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Higher Information: The untold topological secrets of measures and states
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Discovery and characterization of a new pathway for protein insertion into the human outer mitochondrial membrane
Taylor Stevens,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Searching for Signposts of Failed White Dwarf Supernovae
JJ Hermes,
Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? The Coastal Barrier Resources Act as a Natural Experiment
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Ways to See Real-Space Topological Textures and Their Order Parameters at the Atomic Scale
Yu-Tsun Shao,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Simplifying Synthesis at the Interface of Organic and Materials Chemistry
Phillip Milner,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Knowing Your Lemon Before You Dump It" joint work with Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Legal Best Practices: Forming and Funding Your Startup
Rick Friedman,
CEO,
Novus GC,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
9:45am
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11:15am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wind Farm Modeling and Control
Dennice F. Gayme,
Professor and Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deciphering the Function of the HinT Protein through Functional Proteomics"
Dr. Yanping Qiu,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chou Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations
Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr,
UC Riverside,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Pizza Seminar
Special AI & Misinformation Seminar: " IQ Journalism: Predicting the quality of news stories based on explainable AI"
Catherine Sotirakou,
- Internal Event
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Biological Systems
Michael Rosen,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CSSPP/HPS Seminar
What's So Special about Genetic Information, Anyway?
Ozan Gurcan,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Science, Society, and Public Policy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The mechanics of glacier ice from viscous flow to iceberg calving
Brent Minchew,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales
Mina Arvanitaki,
Perimeter Institute,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity
Antony Speranza,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Stable Matching as Transportation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
Dominik Wild,
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Catalogs and populations with ground-based and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Convergence of unitary representations and spectral gaps of manifolds
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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11:59pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Sea Ice Discrete Element Modeling: Melt and Fracture of Floes and Sheets
Rigoberto Moncada Lopez,
Graduate Student, Civil Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Jihong Min
Online and In-Person Event
Innovations in wireless bioelectronics for precision medicine, from sustainable sweat sensing to ingestible gut monitoring
Jihong Min, Ph.D. Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Instittute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Can network ties help improve women's aspiration towards entrepreneurship?
Juni Singh,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Social Sciences of Sustainability,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
INTERANNUAL VARIATION OF PRODUCTIVITY IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE NORTHERN FORESTS: THE ROLE OF PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPES AND CLIMATE
Ke Liu,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Pizza Seminar
High-dimensional entanglement and chip-scale quantum information processing
Dr Xiang Cheng,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Regret Matching+: (In)Stability, Low Regret, and Last-Iterate Convergence in Games
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter
Kelly Stifter,
SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Universal fluctuations in ergodic quantum dynamics, and their use for benchmarking highly entangled states
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The John R. Herron Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Catastrophe Risk in a Changing Climate
Kelly Hereid,
Director of Catastrophe R&D,
Liberty Mutual Insurance,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Thesis Defense
Vibrational imaging for chemical biology: from label-free to molecular probes
Jiajun Du,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:45am
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1:15pm
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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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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Introduction to Transformer Models
Aike Liu,
Physics Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins,
Gary J Gorman Affordable Housing Professor,
Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department, Wisconsin School of Business,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Icy insights by bridging models and observations: Antarctic mass loss sensitivity to the thermal state
Eliza Dawson,
Graduate Student,
Department of Geophysics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Horizons as Eavesdroppers: Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions
Daine Danielson,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Continuous bubbling for the harmonic map heat flow
Andrew W. Lawrie,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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