Institute Calendar
January 2022
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
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Women in Chemistry Seminar - Dr. Christie Canaria
Online Event
Interagency Policy Specialist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce
Christie A. Canaria,
PhD,
Technology Partnerships Office (TPO),
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
An effective strengthening of Mathias' theorem
Severin Mejak,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Copenhagen University,
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
Multi-messenger Studies of Relativistic Jets at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Anthony (Tony) Readhead,
Robinson Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Towards a truly global ocean science enterprise: Ocean Corps and the Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana
Brian Arbic,
University of Michigan,
Joseph Ansong,
University of Ghana,
Paige Martin,
Columbia University,
Tashiana Osborne,
Johns Hopkins University,
Dimitris Menemenlis,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Small Defects, Big Deal: Using point defects to control giant opto-mechanics and to engineer new resistive switches
Rafael Jaramillo,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Computationally Tractable Choice
Modibo Camara,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Elastic wave control through topology and curvature
Massimo Ruzzene,
Slade Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Prospects for observing gravitationally-lensed gravitational-wave transients with second-generation detector networks
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Measuring pharmacokinetics of neural drugs at cellular and subcellular levels, via fluorescent sensors"
Dr. Aaron L. Nichols,
Lester Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Controls on river avulsion style and stratigraphy in foreland basins
Jeff Valenza,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Friday, January 28th, 2022
8:00am
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9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Accelerated computational micromechanics"
Hao Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Floquet engineering of quantum materials on demand
Junyi Shan,
Graduate Student, Hsieh Group,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Conformal Field Theory for SLEs
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
D-instanton Superpotential in String Theory
Manki Kim,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Stellar feedback in galaxies: from the dense interstellar medium to circumgalactic gas
Benjamin Keller,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
MUSTANG Group, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Universität Heidelberg,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Highly Flexible Plates Interacting with a Free Surface: Passive Reconfiguration
Online Event
Christine Gilbert,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Monday, January 31st, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Fast Radio Burst exploration with Apertif
Ines Pastor-Marazuela,
University of Amsterdam,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Quadratic forms in 8 prime variables
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Applications
Deanna Needell,
Professor of Mathematics Dunn Family Endowed Chair in Data Theory ~ Executive Director, Institute for Digital Research and Education,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Turning the LHC to the Dark Side: The Standard Dark Matter Search Approach, Its Limitations, and How to Overcome Them
Matteo Cremonesi,
University of Notre Dame,
,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
The Impact of Ligand Field Symmetry on Molecular Qubit Coherence
Nathanael Kaznierczak,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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