Institute Calendar
February 2021
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Anca Dragan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Stellar Interactions and Transients
Silvia Toonen,
Assistant Professor,
Anton Pannekoek Institute,
University of Amsterdam,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Global Anomalies on the Hilbert Space
Diego Delmastro,
Perimeter Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
How much shortwave radiation does atmospheric mineral dust absorb?
Adeyemi (Yemi) Adebiyi,
UCLA,
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
8:30am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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9:55am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
Marco Pavone,
Professor, Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Microbiome and Mitrochondria interactions in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease
Dr. Livia Morais (Mazmanian Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:45pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
Mapping the structure of emotions
Dr. Kafui Dzirasa,
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor at Duke University with appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery.,
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 Event
Quantum Field Theory and Beyond
Nathan Seiberg,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Friday, February 12th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Confinement in 4d N=1 from 6d N=(2,0)
Lakshya Bhardwaj,
Oxford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
From quantum error correction to critical theories: A holographic journey
Alexander Jahn,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
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
Interpolated Factored Green Function method for accelerated solution of scattering problems
Christoph Bauinger,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Online Event
Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, February 15th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Equidistribution of affine random walks on some nilmanifolds
11:00am
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11:50am
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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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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Classical and quantum communication through quantum fields
Eduardo Martin-Martinez,
Associate Professor,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems
Daniela Rus,
Director,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Fooling Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits
William Hoza,
University of Texas, Austin,
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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
A Golden Age of Asteroseismology with Kepler and TESS
Tim Bedding,
Professor,
Sydney Institute for Astronomy,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Tropical Pacific climate and El Niño strength during warm climates of the past five million years
Sarah White,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Order-Disorder-Property Relationships in Structural Materials: Guided by Randomness
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Analyzing Text Data Indexed by a Hidden Characteristic: Method and Application to the Study of Media Bias in the U.S.
Yimeng Li,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - What Cosmic Fireworks Unveil About the Universe
Online Event
Mansi Kasliwal,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Mars 2020 Lecture: The Thrill and Terror of Landing a Spacecraft on Mars
Online Event
Rob Manning,
Chief Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, February 18th, 2021
All Day
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fluid-elastic Structure Interactions: From Fluid-Induced Cracks to Ice-Shelf Disintegration
Ching-Yao Lai,
Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Princeton University,
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Mean curvature flow with prescribed boundary: a dynamical approach to Plateau's problem
10:00am
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11:00am
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● POSTPONED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been postponed to April 29, 2021.
Elizabeth Phelps,
Harvard University,