Events
January 2024
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
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Thursday, January 18th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cooperative Data-Driven Modeling
Miguel Bessa,
Associate Professor of Engineering,
School of Engineering,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Towards understanding the role of transport in electrocatalysis: the role of dimensionless analysis and multi-scale modeling
Carlos G. Morales-Guio,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
How Anti-ESG Pressure Affects Investment: Evidence from Retirement Savings
Jane Danyu Zhang,
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Wei Gao, Ph.D.
Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors
Wei Gao, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Moiré Materials
Allan H. MacDonald,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel, Darwin, and Lysenko on Heredity
Ute Deichmann,
Professor, Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, January 19th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The g-function and Defect Changing Operators from Wavefunction Overlap on a Fuzzy Sphere
Yijian Zou,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special DIX Planetary Science Seminar
The Formation of a Protostar and a Protoplanetary Disk: Universality and Diversity
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka,
Professor,
Nagoya University,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Coating Thermal Noise - Reaching New Limits in Precision Laser Stabilisation
Namisha Chabbra,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Subsidizing Industry Growth in a Market with Lemons:Evidence from the Chinese Electric Vehicle Market
Jingyuan Wang,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Northwestern University,
Sunday, January 21st, 2024
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
9:00am
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2:20pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The Resnick High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC)
Jin Chang,
Chief Information Officer,
Office of the CIO,
Caltech,
Aaron McKinnon,
Associate Director,
Academic Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions: Estimates, Beliefs and Behavior
Christoph Semken,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fluid transport in planetesimals and implications for early-stage planet formation
Zhongtian Zhang,
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing dark matter with cosmic voids
Elena Pinetti,
Fermilab & KICP,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Polarimetric Observations of HD 156623's Debris Disk with the Gemini Planet Imager
Briley Lewis,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Testing Sign Agreement
Deborah Kim,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar- CANCELLED
Online and In-Person Event
Nelson-Barr solutions to the strong CP problem
Clara Murgui,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona / IFAE,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
One Caltecher's Pathway - the story of Brimstone Energy
Cody Finke,
Caltech Alum, CEO and Co-Founder of Brimstone,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Near-Extremal Black Hole Entropies from Replica Matrices
Sergio Hernandez-Cuenca,
MIT,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Defense
Masked 2-Furylcarbinol Derivatives: A Modular and General Platform for Mechanically Triggered Molecular Release
Tian Zeng,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Measuring the Cosmic Expansion Rate at High Redshift with DESI Lyman-𝛼 Forests
Andrei Cuceu,
Research Fellow,
CCAPP,
The Ohio State University,
Thursday, January 25th, 2024
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Manipulating Metal-Ligand Bonds for Catalysis and Separations"
Kurtis M. Carsch,
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Decarbonization Materials, Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
A Novel Approach for Controlling Block Copolymer (BCP) Self-assembly and Phase Behavior via Magnetic Fields
Michelle Calabrese,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Biard Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Error correction of a logical quantum bit beyond the break-even point
Michel Devoret,
Yale,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Visual Culture Event: Screening of Begin Again Again
BEGIN AGAIN AGAIN, Film Screening
Leslie Thornton,
- Public Event
Friday, January 26th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
BPS states in the large N limit
Chi-Ming Chang,
Tsinghua University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs
Yin-Chen He,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Sm(II)-Mediated (Electro)catalysis Enabled by Proton-Assisted Redox Activation of Sm-Alkoxides
Emily Boyd,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, January 27th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 29th, 2024
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Mimicking Nature's Electric Wires: Redox Properties and Catalytic Applications of Synthetic Iron-Sulfur Clusters".
Victor Mougel,
Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences,
ETH, Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Deciphering the Nature of Titan's Mysterious Magic Islands
Xinting Yu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of San Antonio, Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts
Huangyu Xiao,
Fermilab,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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STEMinar: Liberated Intellects: Coming out as Formerly Incarcerated within Biology
Online Event
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Advancing the Study of Rocky Planets by Leveraging Connections Between Exoplanet and Solar System Science
Jake Lustig-Yaeger,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Applied Science Laboratory,
Johns Hopkins University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Consistent actions for massive particles interacting with electromagnetism and gravity
Lukas Lindwasser,
UCLA,