Institute Calendar
October 2020
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
Online Event
Introduction to nearby cycles
Frid Fu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Galactic Archaeology with Gaia and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
Keith Hawkins,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A seasonal origin for the Holocene and last interglacial thermal maxima in global temperature reconstructions
Yair Rosenthal,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning Properties of 2D Materials: From Catalytic Activity to Single Photon Emission
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
9:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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9:45am
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10:00am
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10:45am
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10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Learning MPC and its Applications to Robotic Systems
Ugo Rosolia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Using CLEM, cryo-FIB-milling and cryo-ET to image kinetochores and chromatin at different stages of mitosis
Dr. Wei Zhao,
Jensen Group,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Division of Biology and Bioengineering Virtual Speaker Series
Online Event
Non-Academic Research Careers
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:45pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Netta Engelhardt,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Galaxy of Horrors: Terrifying Real Planets
Online Event
Speaker to be Announced,
Friday, October 16th, 2020
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Non-perturbative physics for JT gravity and supergravity
Clifford Johnson,
University of Southern California,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Scrambling and Branching
Yingfei Gu,
IFQ Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Kitaev Group,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Uncomfortable (Bodies in the Archive)
Dorit Cypis,
PeoplesLab,
Monique Thomas,
Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Competitive Optimization and Factorization by KL-Minimization
Florian Schaefer,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Going local: the Galactic center as a case study of binaries in a galactic nucleus
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
Photophoretic levitation as a new mechanism of flight
Igor Bargatin,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM),
University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020
10:00am
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5:00pm
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Sunday, October 18th, 2020
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
Colin F. Camerer,
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
Caltech,
Erik Snowberg,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Irreducibility of random polynomials with large degree
Emmanuel Breuillard,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online Event
R. David Britt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Catalytic Reductive Carbene and Vinylidene Transfer Reactions
Conner M. Farley,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry (Reisman Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
8:30am
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4:30pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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