Events
October 2022
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A multi-parameter approach to planetary habitability
Sarah McIntyre,
Graduate Student,
Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
The Australian National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Simplicity, Risk, and Financial Choice
Indira Puri,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
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CANCELLED – Chemical Engineering Seminar
Ravi Jagadeeshan,
Professor,
Chemical & Biological Engineering,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED: Chen Institute for Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. Mayank Mehta
From virtual reality to reality: How neurons create space from time
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Blackwell Correlated Equilibrium
Doron Ravid,
Assistant Professor,
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics,
University of Chicago,
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Reaction Fronts in Porous Media
Marc A. Hesse,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Jackson School of Geological Sciences and the Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Desiccation and Recognition: Competing Pressures at the Periphery of a Social Insect Colony"
Thomas Naragon,
Parker Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
An interplay between order and disorder in proteins regulates transcription elongation
Vaclav Veverka,
IOCB Prague,
3:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
MgO, the simplest oxide?
June Wicks,
Assistant Professor in Earth & Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Ion Transport in Charged Polymer Electrolytes: The Pursuit of High Li+ Transference Number"
Bryan D. McCloskey,
Department Chair and Warren & Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, October 21st, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Entanglement Bootstrap and Remote Detectability
John McGreevy,
UC San Diego,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Chang Wedding Photo Shoot(Athenaeum)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Arsenian Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Kekejyan Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 23rd, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Culturing Nature's Order: A History of Exemplary Microbes and Manufactured Milieus
Charles A. Kollmer,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in History of Biology,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Localizations and Lenses: Looking towards Cosmology with CHIME/FRB Outriggers
Calvin Leung,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planet Formation in our Solar System and Beyond
André Izidoro,
Welch Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences,
Rice University, Houston Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology of Axion Rotation
Keisuke Harigaya,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Defense
The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Methods for Application in Total Synthesis
Alexander M. Shimozono,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ab initio approaches to nonequilibrium interactions and transport in matter
Prineha Narang,
Howard Reiss Development Chair,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Thermal tides in the Martian atmosphere during aphelion season
Siteng Fan,
Postdoc,
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique,
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
(In)efficiency in Information Acquisition and Aggregation through Prices
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE Business School,
University of Navarra,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
8:00am
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in the Local Universe
Vihang Mehta,
IPAC,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate: Insight from Manipulating Adsorbate Affinity
Kesley A. Stoerzinger,
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering,
Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
Anna Ho,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data
Ashesh Rambachan,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Microsoft Research New England,
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Statistical Mechanics of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
Alex Hansen,
Centre Director for PoreLab and Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine
"In situ Structural Biology Using Cryo-Electron Tomography"
Mohammed Kaplan,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jensen Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Crystallography and Cryo-EM : At odds or in harmony?
Gabriel Lander,
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology,
Scripps,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Alluvial fan formation on Earth and Mars
Claire Mondro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Black holes and random matrices
Stephen Shenker,
Stanford University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 28th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Mentors and Recombinators: Multi-Dimensional Social Learning
Yuval Heller,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Christian Johansen,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 29th, 2022
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, October 30th, 2022
5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Kambourian Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 31st, 2022
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Controls on porewater calcite dissolution kinetics from novel in-situ dissolution experiments
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
(Real) Wages in the Middle Ages: The Economic Implications of In-Kind Payment on Medieval English Demesnes, 1250-1450
Jordan Claridge,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economic History,
London School of Economics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
5D Perspectives on the QCD Axion
Tony Ghergetta,
University of Minnesota,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Critical Role of Energy Storage in Advancing Decarbonization
Esther S. Takeuchi,
William and Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment and SUNY Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Mesoscale Transport,
Materials Science and Chemical Engineering,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Multi-wavelength Laboratories in the Epoch of Reionization
Sofía Rojas,
Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The role of rivers in the global carbon cycle: linking geomorphic and geochemical processes
Marisa Repasch,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Placing People at the Centre of a Just Transition
Dr. Ramit Debnath,
Inaugural CambridgeZero Fellow,
University of Cambridge,