Events
January 2024
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Black Holes and Revelations: Unseen Companions in Stellar Binaries
Kareem El-Badry,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
'Probabilistic robotics' revisited: Risk-sensitive robot planning and control using data-driven geometry and dynamics models
Preston Culbertson,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Nonlinear and Multidimensional Terahertz Spectroscopy of Liquids and Crystalline Solids
Haw Wei Lin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science
Dave DeMille,
Friday, January 5th, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A new proposal for holographic Renyi entropy
Pratik Rath,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrocatalytic Asymmetric Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Decarboxylative Coupling: Scope, Applications, and Mechanism
Nathan Friede,
Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, January 8th, 2024
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PhD Thesis Defense
Understanding and Improving Reliability of Inference Dynamics in Deep Neural Networks
Yujia Huang,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities
Anaïs Fabre,
PhD candidate in Economics,
Toulouse School of Economics,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
Erik Petigura,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Learning New Physics from Data – a Symmetrized Approach
Inbar Savoray,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Life at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider
Richard Ruiz,
IFJ, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Machine Learning and Microelectronics for 'New' New Physics Searches at the Energy Frontier
Julia Gonski,
SLAC,
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
10:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Minimax Surfaces and Covariant Holographic Entropy
Brianna Grado-White,
Brandeis University,
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Economics Job Talk
Commercial Eviction Moratoria, Liquidity Relief and Business Closure
Angela Ma,
Ph.D. Candidate in Business Economics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Abhisek Datta,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Approaches in biocatalysis to create connections between sequence space and chemical space
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adaptive Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Systems
Jose E. Andrade,
George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Decoding the Molecular Interactions Governing EWS-FLI1 Oncogenic Behavior"
Shuwen 'Eric' Lei,
Graduate Student,
Goddard Group,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
James Kwan,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Balliol College - University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers
Jorge Noronha,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
When Is It Okay to Ban Research (Funding)?
Craig Callender,
Tata Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics,
UC San Diego,
7:00pm
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Friday, January 12th, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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How Bootstrap and Monte Carlo became friends
Minjae Cho,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Professor Ehud Yariv,
Shocks and Caps in Drop Electrohydrodynamics,
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Liquidity Shocks and Private Equity Investment
Yingxiang Li,
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance,
UBC Sauder School of Business,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrophilic Nickel Nitrenoid Catalysis: N-N Coupling and Enolate Amidation
Kimberly Sharp,
Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition: Collider-Gravitational Wave Complementarity
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
UMass Amherst,
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Europa's Exosphere in and out of Jupiter's Shadow
Apurva Oza,
Postdoc,
JPL,
4:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Do Standard Error Corrections Exacerbate Publication Bias?
Patrick Vu,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC)
Ken Van Tilburg,
NYU,
7:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Edan Lepucki reads from and discusses Time's Mouth: A Novel
Edan Lepucki,
Lecturer in Creative Writing,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
10:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Low entanglement states in black holes and many-body systems
Zixia Wei,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Prospecting, Prehistory, and Late Colonial Time
Brian Jacobson,
Professor of Visual Culture,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
12:15pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Nearest Black Holes Are Quiet (But White Dwarfs Are Not)
Antonio Rodriguez,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in the Milky Way
Ana Bonaca,
Staff Scientist,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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Chen Institute for Neuroscience Director's Seminar: Adam Kepecs
Neurobiology of Confidence: from statistics to circuits and psychiatry
Dr. Adam Kepecs,
Robert J. Terry Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry,
Department of Neuroscience,
Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
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Boosted Higgs production and smart trackers of the future
Jennet Dickinson,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products
Dr. Richmond Sarpong,
Executive Associate Dean,
College of Chemistry,
University of California - Berkeley,