Events
February 2023
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Properties Using an Energy-based Poromechanics Model
Dr. Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
California Institute of Technology,
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Fast, accurate ranking of engineered proteins by receptor binding propensity using structure modeling"
Xiaozhe Ding,
Gradinaru Group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Valuing Technology Workshop
Hanna Breunig,
Deputy-Head of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Posterior Implementability in an N-Person Decision Problem
Axel Niemeyer,
PhD student in Economics,
University of Bonn,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Understanding Mechanisms for Creating Complex Materials with Built-In Cross-Coupled Responses
Nicole Benedek,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Distinct circadian transcription programs converge to regulate behaviour
Deniz Top,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dalhousie University,
Friday, February 17th, 2023
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
VOAs and RG flows in 4D N=2 Theories
Jacques Distler,
University of Texas, Austin,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
C-C Coupling and Site Differentiation in Reaction with Carbon Monoxide at an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Model of FeMoco
Linh Le,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
- Public Event
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, February 19th, 2023
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Photography on Campus: ATHENAEUM presents: Lee/ Rogeron Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, February 20th, 2023
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Evolution of the Chinese Firm: Contracts, Hierarchical Management, and Corporate Personality in Shanxi Merchant Enterprises
Matthew Lowenstein,
Hoover Fellow,
Stanford University,
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Jupiter's Deep Winds and Mercury's Enigmatic Magnetic Field
Hao Cao,
Assistant Professor,
Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences,
UCLA,
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Visual Culture Seminar
Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan,
Winter 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Christof Koch
Building and Operating Brain Observatories – What Have We Learned?
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Tanit Talismans: Image and Gender in a 10th Century Arabic Grimoire
Margaret E. Gaida,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
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Astronomy Colloquium
Star and Cluster Formation in Nearby Galaxies
Janice Lee,
Chief Scientist,
NSF's NOIR Lab,
Gemini Observatory,
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
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Ongoing
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Multiphysics Simulations Using Phase-Field Modeling
Hector Gomez,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"A selectivity filter in the EMC limits protein mislocalization to the ER"
Masami Hazu,
Graduate Student,
Voorhees Group,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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HSS Graduate Students Third-Year Presentations
A Repulsive Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics in Polarized Communities
Claudia Kann,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Phase Separation in Biological Cells: lessons from and for physics
Samuel Safran,
The Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Professorial Chair,
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Transport in 2D Superconductors and Semiconductors
Jeanie Lau,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Pinocchio's Ancestry: a Social and Cultural History of Automata in the North Italian Renaissance
Cristiano Zanetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the History of Science,
Caltech,
Friday, February 24th, 2023
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Coupled minimal models revisited
Conor Behan,
Oxford University,
7:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Can Exoplanets Keep Their Atmospheres Long Enough for Life to Develop?
- Public Event
Saturday, February 25th, 2023
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Sunday, February 26th, 2023
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Monday, February 27th, 2023
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Solution-Phase Routes to Inorganic Solid-State Materials"
Alina Schimpf,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Online and In-Person Event
Connecting the disk dispersal phase to magnetic morphology-driven stellar spin-down
Kristina Monsch,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO),
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing Depositional and Diagenetic Conditions from Bulk and Microscale Sedimentary Sulfur Isotope Records
David A. Fike,
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Environmental Studies,
Washington University,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
SMEFT, loops and all that
Michael Trott,
Neils Bohr Institute and Caltech,
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Special Chemistry Seminar
The many phases of the cell
Krishna Shrinivas, Ph.D.,
NSF-Simons Fellow of Quantitative Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Image Machines/Computation's Womb
Sarah Pourciau,
Assistant Professor of German,
Duke University,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies
Michihiro Kandori,
Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Economics,
University of Tokyo,