Institute Calendar
March 2021
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Control of Soft Matter with Magnetic Fields
Monica Olvera de la Cruz,
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy,
Materials Science and Engineering Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Benjamin Van Roy,
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, and of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Online Event
Designing Brighter Dyes for Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy
Luke D. Lavis,
Senior Group Leader and Head of Molecular Tools and Imaging,
HHMI - Janelia Research Campus,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources
Teddy Mekonnen,
Orlando Bravo Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Brown University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Dark Matter Clues from the Tiniest Galaxies
Risa Wechsler,
Professor of Physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Megan Lickley,
Postdoctoral Associate in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Electron Dynamics in Materials from First Principles
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Perseverance on Mars
Online Event
Kenneth A. Farley,
W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry at Caltech, and Mars 2020 Project Scientist for NASA/JPL,
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, March 11th, 2021
8:00am
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3/14
11:59pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Benjamin Van Roy,
Professor,
Electrical Engineer and Management Science & Engineering,
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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4:30pm
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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
Directed Evolution of P411 Enzymes for Primary Amination
Shilong Gao (Arnold Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar: Dr. Jeong Hoon Ko (JK)
Online Event
Polymer Coating of Gas Vesicles for Extended Ultrasound Bioimaging
Jeong Hoon Ko (JK),
KNI Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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 - Helicopters in Space
Online Event
Farah Alibay,
Systems Engineer,
Mars 2020,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Timothy Canham,
Mars Helicopter Operations Lead,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, March 12th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Wormholes without averaging
Douglas Stanford,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
APS March Meeting Talks
Steven Wood, Shi-Ning Sun, Hyunjin Kim,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The Molecular Vision of Life | Reading Group Pt. 2
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Robotic surfaces with tunable stiffness and reversible shape-morphing
Online Event
Chiara Daraio
Chiara Daraio,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, March 15th, 2021
8:00am
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3/17
11:59pm
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9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells
Leah Ginsberg,
Ph.D. Thesis Defense,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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11:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
An unpublished theorem of Solovay on OD partitions of reals into two non-OD parts, revisited
Vladimir Kanovei,
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
How to Prevent Traffic Accidents? Moral Hazard, Inattention, and Behavioral Data
Yizhou Jin,
Gilbert Center Postdoctoral Fellow,
Economics Department and Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structured Signal Recovery from Nonlinear Measurements with Applications in Phase Retrieval and Linear Classification
Fariborz Salehi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Toward the Synthesis of a Partial Model of FeMo-co Nitrogenase Cluster
Linh Le,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
Electronic Structure Challenges for Strongly Correlated Systems
Laura Gagliardi,
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Water on Mars: Long term bulk evolution and short term seasonal variation
Noora Alsaeed,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Systems Serology to Define Correlates of Immunity to SARS-CoV-2"
Galit Alter,
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Virology,
Harvard Medical School,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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