Events
February 2024
Thursday, February 1st, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A New Way to Image Atoms
David Muller,
Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering,
School of Applied and Engineering Physics,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Deep profiling of the single-cell proteome: potential for next-generation spatial-omics"
Wan Rion Marion (Marion) Pang,
Roukes & Chou Groups,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Why are astrophysical plasmas always magnetized?
Axel Brandenburg,
Nordita & KITP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
From Atoms to Evolution: Dissecting Enzymes in High-Throughput
Margaux Pinney, Ph.D.,
Sandler Faculty Fellow,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco,
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
8:00am
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2/8
11:59pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
AdS Higgs mechanism for double trace deformed CFTs
Andreas Karch,
UT Austin,
2:00pm
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Ignoranic-Organometallics Seminare
Developing New Spectroscopic Observables to Probe Spin Relaxation Mechanisms
Nathanael Kazmierczak,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
3:00pm
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Sunday, February 4th, 2024
3:00pm
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Monday, February 5th, 2024
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RSI Research Seminar
The Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility (EBEF)
Nate Glasser,
Director,
Resnick Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Facility,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar
Experimental prototype of a phase-insensitive quantum filter for sensitivity enhancement of gravitational-wave detectors.
Artemy Dmitriev,
- Internal Event
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Matrix Entanglement and Beckenstein- Hawking Entropy
Sandip Trivedi,
TIFR, Mumbai,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Structures and dynamic processes in Earth's mantle from seismic anisotropy
Jonathan Wolf,
Graduate student,
Department of Earth Planetary Sciences,
Yale University,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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â–º CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar
The Fuzz: Frederick Wiseman's Law and Order and the Shadow of Police Radio
Jason Hill,
Associate Professor of Art History,
University of Delaware,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Validating Cellular Life and Extant Biological Process from Martian Analog Brines and Evaporites
4:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Gerry Rubin
Illustrating the power of connectomics: circuit mechanisms that gate the salience of visual cues in Drosophila
5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2024
10:45am
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11:45am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The action of geometric entropy in topologically massive gravity
Molly Kaplan,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Stretched horizon, replica trick, and off-shell winding condensate, and all that
Indranil Halder,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Dust and Gas Cometary Comae (aka Cometary Activity) in a Nutshell
Yuna Kwon,
Caltech/IPAC,
2:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Formed Too Fast? Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
Caitlin Casey,
Associate Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
The University of Texas at Austin,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, February 8th, 2024
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Contraction Theory for Optimization, Control, and Neural Networks
Francesco Bullo,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
How Much Income Inequality is Fair? A Surprising Answer to a 200-year-old Question.
Venkat Venkatasubramanian,
Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic power of neutron stars
Andrei Beloborodov,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanism and function of accurate stress response silencing
Diane Haakonsen, Ph.D.,
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, February 9th, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The EFT of Large Spin Mesons
Gabriel Cuomo,
Princeton & NYU,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Magnetic Noise Injection Scripts and Preliminary Results for The Virgo Detector
Catalina Miritescu,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Expanding Rh-Catalyzed Nucleophile Additions to Electron-Deficient Dienes
Christopher Cooze,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Stoltz Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 12th, 2024
9:00am
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Chen Institute for Neuroscience Director's Seminar: Dmitry Rinberg
Olfactory Information processing: temporal sequences, geometry and relevance
Dr. Dmitry Rinberg,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology,
NYU Grossman School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
There and back again: A journey to the base of a tectonic plate
Samer Naif,
Assistant Professor,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cosmology and the high-redshift Universe
Nashwan Sabti,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Computational catalyst design accelerated by machine learning with "Center-Environment" features: from spinel to perovskite oxides
Yi Liu,
Professor of Materials Science,
Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University,
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- Internal Event
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Seeing the invisible: the search for low-mass axion dark matter with DMRadio
Chiara Salemi,
SLAC,
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
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Celestial Quantum Error Correction: From Noncommutative Geometry to Celestial CFT
Yangrui Hu,
Perimeter Institute,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Role of Stellar Multiplicity in M-Dwarf Systems
Catherine Clark,
Caltech/IPAC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Galaxies in the Reionization Era: New Insight from JWST
Daniel Stark,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Design Strategies for Mechanochemically Active Polymers
Maxwell J. Robb,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Valuing Technology
Hanna Breunig,
Deputy-Head,
Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems Department,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Towards sustainable materials from biological matter: leveraging macromolecular composition, bonding motifs and hierarchical structure to tailor mechanical performance
Eleftheria Roumeli,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Localized catalytic DNA circuits for scalable molecular computation on a surface"
Samuel Davidson,
PhD Student,
Qian Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Opportunities for Machine Learning in Physics
Max Welling,
University of Amsterdam,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Structural insights into Integrator-dependent RNA polymerase II regulation
Isaac Fianu, Ph.D.,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (Germany),