Institute Calendar
April 2020
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Teleportation by size, traversable wormholes, and quantum gravity in the lab
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:15pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar
CANCELED: Quality Control During 40S Ribosome Assembly
Katrin Karbstein,
Associate Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology,
Scripps Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2020
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
The Statistical Mechanics of Near-Extremal Black Holes
Luca Ilesiu,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Overview of the hypersonic boundary-layer transition (BOLT) flight experiment
Daniel Araya,
Senior Aerospace Engineer,
Applied Physics Laboratory,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Christian Marinelli Johansen,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Online Event
The Circumgalactic Medium: The Gas Around Galaxies
Yuguang Chen,
PhD Candidiate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, April 11th, 2020
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 13th, 2020
11:00am
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4/17
4:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Imaging and Modelling the Yellowstone Plume
Stephen Grand,
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences,
Shell Companies Foundation Centennial Chair in Geophysics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: High Energy Physics Seminar
Learning Cosmology from the First Starts
Julian Muñoz,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar via Zoom
Online Event
"Sensing Inside and Outside: How Does the Brain Regulate Body Fluid Balance?"
Yuki Oka,
Assistant Professor of Biology and Chen Scholar,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar
Chris Doe,
Professor,
Institute of Neuroscience,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The A+ upgrade to the LIGO Interferometers: Progress in two acts
GariLynn Billingsley,
A+ Deputy Project Leader, LIGO Laboratory,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Water on the Moon and the new Smallsat Mission Lunar Trailbl
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
CANCELED: NP-Hardness of Circuit Minimization for Multi-Output Functions
Rahul Ilango,
Graduate Student,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This seminar has been canceled.
elin o'Hara slavick,
Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Redistribution Through Markets
Scott Duke Kominers,
Associate Professor of Business Administration,
Entrepreneurial Management Unit,
Harvard Business School,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Amina Helmi,
Professor of Dynamics, Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way,
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,
University of Groningen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Martin Harmer,
Alcoa Foundation Professor Senior Faculty Adviser for Engineering Research Initiatives,
Lehigh University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Expanding the Chemical Toolbox for Acoustic-based Imaging
Jefferson Chan,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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.
Peter Arcidiacono,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Laser Based New Materials Design and Manufacturing: Integration of Nano/Micro Functional Structures
Xining Zang,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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