Institute Calendar
February 2022
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins
Pilar Ariza,
Professor of Solid Mechanics and Structures,
Head of the Doctoral on Program Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization,
University of Seville (Spain),
12:54pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Keeping Up With Experimentalists: Accurate predictions for multimessenger gravitational wave astrophysics
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar- Professor Kim Butts
Online Event
Bringing Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation into Focus
Professor Kim Butts,
Professor of Radiology and by courtesy, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Department of Radiology,
Stanford University, Stanford University,
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 and In-Person Event
14 Billion years on, what can we learn about Original Imperfection?
Eric Cornell,
JILA, University of Colorado,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
Roving with Perseverance: Findings from One Year on Mars
Jennifer Trosper,
Mars 2020 Project Manager,
NASA/JPL,
Kathryn Stack Morgan,
Deputy Project Scientist, Mars 2020,
NASA/JPL,
Friday, February 18th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
de Sitter Microstates from a solvable generalization of the T-Tbar deformation
Eva Silverstein,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum simulation of particle collisions
Federica Surace,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMT and Preskill Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Hamed Hamze Bajgiran,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The Sciences and Humanities in Crisis
Elizabeth Popp Berman,
Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology,
University of Michigan,
Chad Wellmon,
Professor of German Studies, History, and Media Studies,
University of Virginia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Eigenvalue extremal metrics and n-harmonic maps
Antoine Métras,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Université de Montréal,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: From Launch to Landing
Online Event
Swati Mohan,
Supervisor,
Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Systems Engineering,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, February 19th, 2022
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Sunday, February 20th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 21st, 2022
9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Canonical heights and the Andre-Oort conjecture
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Discrete Analysis Seminar
A decoupling interpretation of an old argument for Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Some comments on supersymmetric JT gravity and SYK.
Juan Maldacena,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ordering Excitons in Two Dimensions
Yusong Bai,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Columbia University,
Chemistry,
Columbia,
2:00pm
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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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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Shreyas Vissapragada,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Jerry Xuan,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
First Principles Driven Materials Design: From Building Blocks to Superlattices
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
New Diameter Reducing Shortcuts: Breaking the $O(\sqrt{n})$ Barrier
Merav Parter,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Compressive gate set tomography
Martin Kliesch,
University of Düsseldorf,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Social Justice
Chad Topaz,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE),,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
GraL: In Search of Quasar Gravitational Lenses from Gaia and Beyond
Alberto Krone-Martins,
Lecturer,
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
"Cinematography" of nanoparticles, membrane proteins, and polymer membranes at the nanoscale
Qian Chen,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Public Policy Problems
Marco Battaglini,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics, Cornell University,
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
8:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Morphing Materials and Multifunctional Structures: From Mechanics to Applications
Xueju "Sophie" Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Materials Science,
University of Connecticut (UConn),
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
Jonathan Ouellet,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Harnessing Pseudomonas Physiology to Treat Chronic Infections"
Dr. Chelsey VanDrisse,
Newman Group,
Caltech,