Institute Calendar
March 2022
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Grasping Mysterious Drivers of Galaxy Evolution with Big Data
Gina Panopoulou,
Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Integrating Machine Learning With Scientific Spatial and Temporal Modeling
Aditi Krishnapriyan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Physics of Heat Waves: What causes extremely high summertime temperatures?
Lucas Vargas Zeppetello,
PhD,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Spin-chiral fluctuation processes in magnetic insulators and metals
Max Hirschberger,
The University of Tokyo,
Thursday, March 10th, 2022
8:00am
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12:00pm
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3/13
11:59pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Electrifying Polymers: Engineering Conductive Polymers for Photovoltaics, Virus Detection, and Bioelectronics
Rafael Verduzco,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Going against the flow in fluid animation
Mathieu Desbrun,
Carl F Braun Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematic Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The chemical distance in random interlacements in the low-intensity regime
Eviatar Procaccia,
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Friday, March 11th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Exotic Field Theories: Lifshitz Theory, Tensor Gauge Theory, and Fractons
Nathan Seiberg,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Hunting for alternative sources of r-process elements
Jennifer Barnes,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
Sunday, March 13th, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 14th, 2022
8:00am
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3/16
11:59pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online Event
Fast Transient Studies from Massive Survey Streams: How We Enable Them, and What We Can Learn
Alex Gagliano,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Breaking Scaling Relationships in CO2 Reduction on Copper Alloys with Organic Additives
Nicholas B. (Nick) Watkins,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Coronal Mass Ejections and Exoplanets: A Numerical Perspective
Julian Alvarado-Gomez,
Postdoctoral Scholar - Karl Schwarzschild Fellow,
Astrophysics Potsdam,
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Common Agency without Delegation
Siyang Xiong,
Professor of Economics,
UC Riverside,
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Exoplanet Adventures in the 2020s and Beyond
Jayne Birkby,
Associate Professor of Exoplanetary Science,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Epichaperomes – on how to impact and rebalance proteome-wide protein-protein interaction networks in disease
Dr. Gabriela Chiosis,
Laboratory Head,
Department of Chemical Biology,
Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute,
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
8:00am
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3/25
11:59pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
A free energy-based framework for scale bridging in crystalline solids--with some use of machine learning methods
Krishna Garikipati,
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Mathematics,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
A Conical Intersection Influences the Ground State Rearrangement of Fulvene to Benzene
G. Barney Ellison,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder CO,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
Moon Dance: Dynamics of the Moons of the Outer Solar System
Marina Brozovic,
Navigation Engineer,
NASA/JPL,
Friday, March 18th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Ligand Flexibility in Surface-Inspired Cluster Chemistry
Neil C. Tomson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Probing Neutrino Mass Models at Neutrino Telescopes
Bhupal Dev,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Monday, March 21st, 2022
9:00am
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9:01am
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Capturing Nuclear Quantum Effects at Classical Efficiency: A Path-Integral Approach
Xuecheng Tao,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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