Events
May 2024
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Disentanglement as a strong cosmic censor
Vincent Chen,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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.
Stefan Wager,
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture)
Connecting Disks to Planetary Architectures and Compositions
Alycia Weinberger,
Staff Scientist,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Advancing the logic of polymer synthesis, modification, and degradation
Alex Zhukhovitskiy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
- Internal Event
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nature in Motion: The power of bioinspired design in unraveling locomotion across mediums and scales
Aimy Wissa,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Liquidity, Debt Denomination, and Currency Dominance
Chenzi Xu,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford University Graduate School of Business,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A Purpose for Disorder: Intrinsically Disordered Regions Promote Protein Refolding and Facilitate Retrieval from Biomolecular Condensates
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways
Kristala L. J. Prather - MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies, German Studies, at Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean
Vedika Khemani,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: I, Human: Unlocking the Secret of Human Intelligence
Sneha R. Aenugu,
Caltech graduate student,
Social & Decision Neuroscience,
- Public Event
10:30am
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11:30am
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Caltech Brain Imaging Center Seminar
Online Event
Multimodal Imaging and Resting-State Global Brain Activity: Controversies, Hypotheses, and Discovery
Thomas T. Liu,
Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI and Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs
Luca Delacretaz,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Role of Cations and Organic Additive Films in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Madeline Hicks,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, May 6th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
One is the Loneliest Number: Multielectron and Multivalent Chemistries for Next-Generation Batteries
Kimberly A. See,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Measurements and Theory of Mass Independent Isotope Effects And Relation to Archean, Atmosphere and Solar System Origin Using Seven Isotopes
Mark H. Thiemens,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry John Dove Isaacs Endowed Chair in Natural Philosophy for Physical Sciences Founding Dean Division of Physical Sciences,
University of California San Diego,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Deep learning-enabled integrated measurements of immune signaling in primary human macrophages
Emily Laubscher,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Sarah King,
Neubaruer Family Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Enceladus Spills its Guts: A Relationship Between Strike-Slip Motion and Jet Activity over the Tiger Stripes" & "Chemical Weathering Conditions in Nili Fossae as Indicated by Aluminum Phyllosilicates and Associated Mineralogy"
Alexander Berne,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Samantha Baker,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Dark Matter Signals from the Ionosphere
Sebastian Ellis,
University of Geneva,
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
Buying from a Group
Elliot Lipnowski,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Searching for Parity Violation with the Galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function
Zachary Slepian,
University of Florida,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves: A New Probe Cosmology and Nature of Dark Matter
Souvik Jana,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Transformations of Alkenes using Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nickel-Hydride Catalysts
Amanda K. Cook,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Oregon,
- Internal Event
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Signal Processing for Large Arrays: Convolutional Beamspace, Hybrid Processing, and Distributed Algorithms
Po-Chih Chen,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture)
Planet Formation Under the Microscope
Karin Oberg,
Professor of Natural Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
On the Origin of Biological Homochirality (General Lecture)
Donna G. Blackmond,
The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair,
Scripps Research,
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mobile sand dunes - silent travelers of the desert
Michel Louge,
Emeritus Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Green Capital Requirements
Marcus Opp,
Professor of Finance,
Stockholm School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Critical Metals and the fermion sign problem
Erez Berg,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Symmetries as Isomorphisms
Lu Chen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
A Novel Paradigm for Asymmetric Organocatalysis (Technical Lecture)
Donna G. Blackmond,
The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Chemistry Department Chair,
Scripps Research,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
A reading from Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
Dr. Aomawa Shields,
Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
- Public Event
Friday, May 10th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Callan Rubakov Effect
Daniel Brennan,
UC San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Control of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo
Marjorie Buss,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Chemical biology in the executive branch: an introduction to NIH intramural research
Jordan Meier,
Senior Investigator,
Chemical Biology Laboratory,
National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-N and C-X Coupling
Feng Zhong,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Fu Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Reactive Intermediates in the Atmosphere of Venus: The Catalytic Role of Chlorine Atoms
Wen Chao,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Altering Framework Topology and Heteroatom Distributions of Molecular Sieves by Designed Organic Structure-Directing Agents
Youngkyu Park,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech (Davis Group),