Events
October 2023
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Creating a New Circular Carbon Economy via Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Ah-Hyung "Alissa" Park,
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Natural and engineered molecular chaperones against amyloidogenic substrates"
Arpit Gupta,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shan Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Supermassive primordial black holes from inflation
Aurora Ireland,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Some computer studies of membrane proteins, molecular chaperones, and color
Shyam Saladi,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The role of ER shape, dynamics, and membrane contact sites in health and disease
Gia Voeltz,
Professor, HHMI Investigator,
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microbes in the wild: Unraveling microbial community dynamics in their natural environment
Smruthi Karthikeyan,
Professor,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter
Mariangela Lisanti,
Princeton University,
Friday, October 20th, 2023
12:00am
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10/21
12:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neural Drug Biosensors in Cellular Imaging and Computational Ethology
Anand Muthusamy,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wiring the Quantum Future: Developing Interconnects for Superconducting Qubits
Mohammad Mirhosseini,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics; 2022 KNI-Wheatley Scholar,
Caltech,
- Public Event
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Saturday, October 21st, 2023
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
Learning About Informativeness
Wanying (Kate) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From Atom to System – Electrochemistry for Terawatt-Hour Energy Transition.
Ying Shirley Meng,
Professor of Molecular Engineering,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Tale of Two Pools: The dynamic impacts of reactive transport, phase separation and shallow mixing on the geochemistry and microbiology of a coupled Yellowstone hydrothermal system
Kenneth Sims,
Professor,
Isotope Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics,
University of Wyoming,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The search for µ− → e+ conversion at µ− → e− conversion experiments
Michael Mackenzie,
Northwestern University,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in CCE Seminar
"Unlocking molecular selectivity at electrochemical interfaces through redox-electron transfer"
Dr. Xiao Su,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing and imaging nuclear and electronic motions at molecular length-scales in disordered media harnessing optical and scattering interactions
Thomas Markland,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
On the Dust of Primitive Small Bodies in the Solar System
Yuna Kwon,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The 2x2 Demonstrator - A demonstrator for the DUNE ND-LAr Near Detector based on the ArgonCube Design
Brooke Russell,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Adapting to Misspecification
Tim Armstrong,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
USC,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
8:00am
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10/31
11:59pm
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10:40am
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11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Toroidal Casimir Energy of Conformal Field Theories with d>2
Conghuan Luo,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Next-Generation Simulations of the Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars
Carl Fields,
RPF Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow,
Computational Physics and Methods,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Rationalizable Information Design
Olivier Gossner,
Professor, London School of Economics; Senior Researcher, CNRS; Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering RNA export to monitor and manipulate living cells"
Dr. Felix Horns,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Elowitz Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Mild Government Failure
Shang-Jin Wei,
N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics,
Graduate School of Business and School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Decoding the Cellular Blueprint: DNA, Lipids, and Nuclear Geometry
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN Disks
Zhaohuan Zhu,
UNLV,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Engineering Therapeutics for the Pediatric Brain"
Elizabeth Nance,
Jagjeet and Janice Bindra Endowed Career Development Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Washington,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 27th, 2023
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Holography on the quantum disk
Ahmed Almheiri,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Development and Application of Cooperative Catalysts Methods for Alkene Carboboration
Stanna Dorn,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Reisman Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 30th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The scope of Clean Water Act regulation and its consequences for the economy and the environment
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Assistant Professor of Economics; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Electromagnetism and Gravity with Continuous Spin
Kevin Zhou,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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Visual Culture Seminar
Water and Equitable Sustainability in the California Central Valley
Angela Islas,
Water Project Manager,
CivicWell,
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Isotopes and the characterization of extrasolar planets
Yapeng Zhang,
Postdoc (51 Peg Fellow),
Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Elicitability
Nicolas Lambert,
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure),
USC,