Institute Calendar
January 2024
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
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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,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The frog model on trees
Matt Junge,
Baruch College, Department of Mathematics,
CUNY,
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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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer TMDs
Allan MacDonald,
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics,
University of Texas at Austin,
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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LIGO Seminar
Coating Thermal Noise - Reaching New Limits in Precision Laser Stabilisation
Namisha Chabbra,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 was achieved in inertial fusion
Omar Hurricane,
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff & Chief Scientist for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, Design Physics (DP) Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Kirby and the Skein Lasagna Module of $S^2 \times S^2$
Melissa Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Evolution of continental lithosphere: Insights from the eastern margin of North America
Sunday, January 21st, 2024
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
11:00am
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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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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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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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Dimension-free inequalities: a tale of two possibilities.
Grigoriy Blekherman,
Professor,
Mathematics,
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
Probing dark matter with cosmic voids
Elena Pinetti,
Fermilab & KICP,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
11:00am
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Some Mathematical Aspects of Modern Machine Learning
Mikhail Belkin,
Halicioglu Data Science Institute,
UC San Diego,
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,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
On the decomposition of large tensor powers of finite dimensional representations
Nicolai Reshetikhin,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Four episodes of Kuramoto oscillators
Seung Yeal Ha,
Professor of Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Seoul National University,
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,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
8:00am
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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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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
A regularity criterion for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations based on finitely many observations.
Abhishek Balakrishna,
Associate Professor,
(RTPC) of Mathematics,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Using tides to reveal the interior and evolution of rocky and icy bodies in the context of planetary missions - Application to the Mars system, Enceladus, and Pluto-Charon binary
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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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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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Measuring the Cosmic Expansion Rate at High Redshift with DESI Lyman-𝛼 Forests
Andrei Cuceu,
Research Fellow,
CCAPP,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Slow Closure of Earth's Carbon Cycle
Daniel Rothman,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Defect Disorder in Electronic Ceramics: Insights from Transmission Electron Microscopy
Elizabeth Dickey,
Teddy & Wilton Hawkins Distinguished Professor and Department Head,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,