Events
April 2024
Monday, April 1st, 2024
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RSI Research Seminar
Developing isotopic tools to study carbon flow in cow rumen upon inhibition of methane-producing microbes
Elliot Mueller,
Grad student, Resnick Scholar,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
A Dithiolene Detour: Unusual Physical Properties in Tetrathiafulvalene Tetrathiolate Complexes and Materials.
John Anderson,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Journeys beyond the Standard Model in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb and CODEX-b
Biplab Dev,
Eötvös University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Constraining D" structure and mineralogy
Christine Thomas,
Professur für Geophysik,
Institut für Geophysik University of Münster,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
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4/3
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Water on Mars 101: What we know and what we don't know
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Using Machine Learning to Deal with the Data from the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter
Matteo Cremonesi,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
12:00am
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4/4
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
One-Form Symmetry in Dynamical Gravity
Joonhwi Kim,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
On Galaxies' Circumgalactic Media and Outflows
Claudia Scarlata,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Boehringer Ingelheim-Caltech Lecture in Organic Chemistry
Ben Feringa,
Nobel Laureate, Academy Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Mathmatics and Natural Sciences,
University of Groningen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Christopher Timmins,
Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor,
University of Wisconsin, Business School,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture)
The Simple Physics Behind CMB Spectral Distortions: Three Milestones in the Life of the Universe
Rashid Sunyaev,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Man-made earthquakes and the energy transition
Ruben Juanes,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This seminar has been canceled.
Paula Findlen,
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology 2.0: the Dawn of a New Era
Huimin Zhao,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the lab
Ronald Hanson,
QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
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4/6
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Black Hole Collider Physics
Enrico Herrmann,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner,
Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Gözde Demirer,
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering,
California Institute or Technology,
Carlos Morales-Guio,
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
William Tarpeh,
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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Monday, April 8th, 2024
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Opto-electronic and Excited-State Dynamical Properties of Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Superstructures
Michael J. Therien,
William R. Kanan, Jr. Distinguished Prof. of Chemistry, William R. Kanan, Jr. Prof. of Chemistry, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Member of Duke Cancer Institute, Faculty Network Member of The Energy Institute,
Duke Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability,
Duke University,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar--POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2024
Smaranda C. Marinescu,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Investigating structural controls on megathrust slip behavior in and around the Guerrero gap off the Pacific Coast of Mexico using active source seismic data
Anne Bécel,
Lamont Associate Research Professor, Marine and Polar Geophysics,
Columbia Climate School,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The accelerator-driven hunt for hidden sector dark matter in the US
Cristina Mantilla Suarez,
Fermilab,
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Modeling Human Social Behavior
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology,
Caltech,
Nina Rouhani,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Neuroscience,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring and Manipulating Novel Matter Phases with Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear X-Ray Techniques
Michael Zuerch,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
More on Torus Wormholes in 3d Gravity
Cynthia Yan,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Dana Murphy,
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Probing the Smallest Interstellar Dust Grains with JWST in Different Galaxy Environments
Thomas Lai,
Caltech/IPAC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Massive Particles at Spatial Infinity
Suvrat Raju,
ICTS, Tata Institute,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
White Dwarfs as Probes of Convective Overshoot and Evolved Exoplanetary Systems
Tim Cunningham,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Making Molecular World: Building a practice-based account of modern chemistry
Dr. Catherine M. Jackson,
Associate Professor and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework
Max Farrell,
Associate Professor of Economics and Mellichamp Chair of Mind and Machine Intelligence,
UC Santa Barbara,
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9:00pm
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Thursday, April 11th, 2024
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11:00am
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Science Journey: How Soil Microbes Help Us Fight Climate Change
Hannah Dion-Kirschner,
Caltech graduate student,
Geobiology,
- Public Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Do we really need all that data? Learning and control for contact-rich manipulation
Michael Posa,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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Center for Evolutionary Science EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Mechanisms that entrench obligate symbioses" and "Evolution of a curious male social behavior in Drosophila"
Joe Ouadah,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Department of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering High-precision, Dynamic Genetic Control Systems for Cellular Reprogramming
Katie Galloway,
W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Is it really cold and quiet? How mundane backgrounds that cause quasi-particle poisoning in superconducting sensors limit meV-GeV dark matter searches today and could ultimately limit superconducting QUBITs.
Matt Pyle,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Speed, Accuracy, and Complexity
Duarte Goncalves,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University College London (UCL),
Friday, April 12th, 2024
8:00am
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4/13
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8:00am
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4/13
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10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Partial Synthetic Models of the FeMoco Nitrogenase Cluster with Bridging C-Based Ligands
Nguyen Vuong Linh Le,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings From Feynman Diagrams
Edward Mazenc,
ETH, Zurich,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Uncovering the Origins of Binary Black Holes with Normalising Flows
Storm Colloms,
- Internal Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Clearing the Air: A Chemical Approach to Understanding SOA Formation from Volatile Chemical Products
Reina Buenconsejo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 12, 2024
Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Riccardo Caniato,
PMA,
Dr. Maksym Figat,
Assistant Professor,
Warsaw University of Technology,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity
Alejandra Castro,
University of Cambridge,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar
MARVEL, SNAPS, and hubs
Attila G. Császár,
Professor of Chemistry,
Institute of Chemistry,
Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary,