Events
January 2023
Saturday, December 10th, 2022
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1/3
11:59pm
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Monday, December 26th, 2022
Ongoing
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1/2
5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
4:00pm
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1/19
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
12:00am
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1/5
12:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, January 5th, 2023
9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Acoustically Coupled Combustion Instabilities
Ann Karagozian,
Distinguished Professor and the Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Innovation,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Tests of quantumness with trapped ions
Crystal Noel,
Duke University,
Friday, January 6th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Measurement-induced phase transition in teleportation and wormholes
Alexey Milekhin,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, January 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Molecular Insights into Metal-Support Interactions for Catalyst Design."
Alexandra Velian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Simplicity and Risk; Bulls and Binaries
Indira Puri,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can lava flow like water? Applying remote sensing and hydraulic theory to investigating lava flow dynamics
Hannah R. Dietterich,
Research Geophysicist,
Alaska Volcano Observatory,
U.S. Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Symmetry breaking in EFTs: from CPV to the axion quality problem
Quentin Bonnefoy,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyl Complexes: Mechanistic Studies and Polymerization Catalysis
Shuoyan Xiong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
AURORA ON MARS: DIVERSE, WIDESPREAD AND UNEXPECTED
Nick Schneider,
Professor,
Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Design-based Estimation Theory for Complex Experiments
Haoge Chang,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Recent Advances in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics
Anna Gorgogianni,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
AI for Chemical Space Exploration and Synthesis
Prof. Connor W. Coley,
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
What Plato Can Teach Us About Livestreaming the Police; or, Five Theses on Legal Performance and Spectatorship
Julie Stone Peters,
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, January 13th, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELED
Online and In-Person Event
Effective Field Theories with Celestial Duals.
Anastasia Volovich,
Brown University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wave propagation in periodic acoustic metamaterials: from 1D to 3D
Gunho Kim,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar Series: Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules | Dr. Hans Renata (Rice University)
Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules
Dr. Hans Renata,
Associate Professor,
Rice University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Tensor network algorithms for high-accuracy simulation of realistic materials
Matthew O'Rourke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Non-Price Competition and Risk Selection Through Hospital Networks
Natalia Serna,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
University of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis and Reactivity of Phosphorus-Containing Heterocycles and Tetrahedranes
Martin-Louis Riu,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Nelson Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, January 16th, 2023
12:00am
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1/17
12:00am
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Unravelling biomolecular structure, interactions and dynamics with mass photometry
Philipp Kukura,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? Evidence from the Coastal Barrier Resources System
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Fellow, Resources for the Future; Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Seminar
Online Event
Constraints from Dwarf Galaxies on Black Hole Seeding And Growth Models with Current And Future Surveys
Urmila Chadayammuri,
CfA,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Where There's a Wobble There's a Way: New Astrophysical Insights from Pulsating Stars (and Planets)
Jim Fuller,
Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics,
TAPIR,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Asset Pricing with Higher Order Beliefs
Kaushik Vasudevan,
PhD Candidate in Financial Economics,
Yale School of Management,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: When Earth Breathed Deeply
Online and In-Person Event
Claire E. Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology; Biedebach Memorial Lecturer,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Near-Wake Dynamics of Cross-Flow Turbine Arrays
Isabel Scherl,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Towards the Molecular Mechanism of Cotranslational Nascent Protein Acetylation"
Dr. Alfred Lentzsch,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shan Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Bioinspired friction of soft materials
Prof. Lilian Hsiao,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Gerrymandering when Turnout Rates Differ
Allison Stashko,
Assistant Professor,
David Eccles School of Business,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability of deep crustal settings
Min Song,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Stable Isotope Laboratory,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Angular Momentum Radiation in Field Theory and Gravity
Aneesh Manohar,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
"Thermodynamic principles of redox biochemistry & Illuminating the biochemical black box of M. tuberculosis"
Dr. Adrian Jinich,
HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
School of Medical Sciences,
Weill Cornell Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Doubling Down on Perovskites: Double and 2-D Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronics and Solid Refrigerants"
Dr. Adam Slavney,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Environment,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 20th, 2023
10:00am
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10:30am
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