Events
October 2024
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Happens When Voters Can Delegate Their Votes? Evidence from Liquid Democracy Online
Andrew Hall,
Davies Family Professor, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A brief history of development of elastocaloric cooling
Ichiro Takeuchi,
Interim Chair and Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Antibody 007: A best-in-class anti-HIV antibody that utilizes avidity"
Andrew DeLaitsch,
Graduate Student,
Bjorkman Group,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
No More Snowball, Sorry Joe! New Data and New Paradigm
Ross Mitchell,
Professor,
Institute of Geology & Geophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Chemical design of quantum systems
Danna Freedman,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
Endogenous Financial Networks and Systemic Risk: A Demand System Approach
Romain Ranciere,
Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife; Professor of Finance & Business Economics, USC Marshall; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Friday, October 18th, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Hierarchy from duality
Kristan Jensen,
University of Victoria,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Dialogues across Difference: Kick-Off Event
Who is this "we?" Dialogue and community action in polarized times
Lara Schwartz,
Founding Director of the Project on Civic Dialogue,
School of Public Affairs,
American University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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KNI-Wheatley Scholar Lecture: Protein Complexes as the Nanomachines of the Human Body
Rebecca Voorhees,
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Harvesting Insights from Advanced Microscope Acquisitions: Techniques and Applications
Mingshu Liang,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 19th, 2024
10:00am
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Monday, October 21st, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Immobilization of Heavy Metals from Solution by Novel Biogenic Manganese Oxides
Hannah Way,
Grad Student,
Geobiology,
Caltech,
Jared Leadbetter,
Professor of Environmental Microbiology,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision
Aaron Tohuvavohu,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Continental Emergence as a Driver of Stabilization
Jesse Reimink,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Astrometric Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter
Sarunas Verner,
University of Florida,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Lacramioara Bintu
Distilling the rules of transcriptional activators and repressors using high-throughput and single-cell methods
Lacramiora Bintu,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Minimalism as a Guiding Concept for the Reinvention of Amide Synthesis
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
An Organizational Theory of State Capacity
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of the Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations,
Eccles School of Business,
The University of Utah,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
3d gravity as a random ensemble
Liza Rozenberg,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
The Origins of Close-in Brown Dwarfs from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution
Steven Giacalone,
Caltech,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Operator Origin of Anomalous dimensions in de Sitter Space
Yiwen Huang,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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OCS - Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectures
Dr. Lauren Holder,
Principal Scientist II,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Global Discovery Chemistry,
Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Multidimensional Screening with Rich Consumer Data
Mira Frick,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A data-driven approach to modeling and control of wound state progression and healing outcomes
Marcella Gomez,
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Associate Dean for DEI in Baskin Engineering,
Applied Mathematics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A river in flux: The sediment deficit in the Fraser Delta
Jeremy Venditti,
Director of Environmental Science & Professor,
School of Environmental Science & Geography,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
9:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Tensionless AdS_3/CFT_2 and Single Trace TTbar
Andrea Dei,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Assessing the Degradation of Battery Cathodes in Real Time via Spatially Resolved Electrochemical Methods
Abhiroop Mishra,
Postdoctoral Scholar (See Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, October 28th, 2024
9:00am
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Special Invited Talk
Single-Molecule Sensors Integrated with Machine Learning Enable Early Diagnosis
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Bridging biological scales to assess the contribution of landslides to the functioning of tropical mountainscapes
Carla Restrepo,
Professor,
Department of Biology,
University of Puerto Rico,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
High Energy Scattering in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Michael Saavedra,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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OCS/Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award
Exploring Ways to Harness N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Triarylboranes in Organometallic and Synthetic Chemistry
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4:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Seminar: Dr. James Jeanne
Mechanisms of parallel processing in the brain
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
9:00am
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Conducting elections in the largest U.S. election jurisdiction
Dean Logan,
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Do Rational Beliefs Make You Happy? An Experiment on How to be a Spectator
Andrew Schotter,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Charged Superradiance in AdS5 x S5 black holes
Chintan Patel,
TIFR Mumbai/KITP,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Cosmological Constraints from Higher Order Patterns
Lado Samushia,
Kansas State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Designing Energy Conversion and Storage Structures Using Two-Dimensional Materials
Zhengtang Luo,
Professor and Program Director of MSc in Chemical and Energy Engineering,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The Next Decade of Discoveries with Radio Interferometry: Bringing Nature's Deepest Mysteries into View
Michael Johnson,
Astrophysicist,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard & Smithsonian,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Light-Responsive Materials for a Sustainable Future: Exploring Optically-Controlled Functional Organic Systems
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Guy Talk: Catalyzing Peer Effects on IPV through Virtual Support Groups for Men
Erica Field,
Professor of Economics,
Duke University,
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
9:00am
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