Institute Calendar
March 2020
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, March 6th, 2020
9:00am
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4:20pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Energy Dissipation Rate for Eshelby Transformations and Mesoscale Modeling of Shear Transformation (STZ) Plasticity
Alan Needleman,
University Distinguished Professor, TEES Eminent Research Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black hole information, spacetime wormholes, baby universes and ensembles
Henry Maxfield,
UCSB,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Caltech Diversity Center Seminar
How to Approach the Faculty Job Search and Still Keep Your Cool
Chris M. Golde, PhD,
Career Educator,
Stanford Career Education,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Matter and Metrology far from Equilibrium
Norman Yao,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Thinking Inside the Box – Microwave Radiometry on CubeSats
Boon Lim,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
SL(3) foam evaluation and its relation to the Kronheimer-Mrowka homology theory of graphs
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Professor of Early Modern Europe and History of Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Simone Steinbrüchel,
Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of a [4W-13Fe-12S] Cluster
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Investigating Earth's deep mantle buoyancy and frequency dependent behavior using Earth tides
Harriet Lau,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, March 7th, 2020
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 8th, 2020
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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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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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Physiology of Antibody Conjugates and Natural Products
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Good Vibrations: Deciphering complex wavefields for deep Earth, shallow Mars, explosions and elephants
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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3/17
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: High Energy Physics Seminar
Deep Learning, Quantum Information, and the LHC as a Gluon Factory
Benjamin Nachman,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
BCOV axioms of Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau 3-fold
Yongbin Ruan,
Zhejiang University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Emily Finn,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
National Institute of Mental Health,
Dartmouth College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ocean controls on global carbon cycle
Laure Resplandy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences and at the Princeton Envieonmental Institute,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Unearthing Periodicity in the Tuning of Chemical Reactivity by Lewis Acids: From 3d to 5f
James D. Blakemore,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Kansas,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: Women in Chemistry Breakfast with Professor Olvera de la Cruz
Women in Chemistry Breakfast with Professor Olvera de la Cruz
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Shuwa Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Kaushiki Menon,
Associate Research Scientist,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: IST Lunch Bunch
Unearthing the Relationship Between Graph Neural Networks and Matrix Factorization
Bruno Ribeiro,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Physics Seminar
Control of Soft Matter with Magnetic Fields
Monica Olvera de la Cruz,
Lawrence Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Don Howard,
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Neptune viewed with the VLA, ALMA, and whatever comes next
Joshua Tollefson,
Post Doc,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special KNI Seminar
3D Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials
Martin Wegener,
Professor Institute of Applied Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Favorite-Longshot Midas
Etan Green,
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, Decision,
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Reasoning About Generalization via Conditional Mutual Information
Thomas Steinke,
Researcher,
IBM Almaden,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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