Institute Calendar
February 2024
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Filling Legendrians with barcodes
David Nadler,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Integrality of mirror maps and arithmetic homological mirror symmetry
Sheel Ganatra,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Devices Seminar, Rabia Yazicigil
The Circuit Frontier: Innovating and Expanding ASIC Solutions for Enhanced Biosensing and Seamless Wireless Communication
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
An Euler system for the Adjoint of a modular form
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
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),
Friday, February 16th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The correspondence between rotating black holes and fundamental strings
Marija Tomasevic,
University of Amsterdam,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Interpretable Expressivity Separations in Trainable Quantum Machine Learning
Eric Anschuetz,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
CANCELED! To be rescheduled.
Dr. Qinheng Zheng,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Detecting large baryonic feedback around DESI photometric galaxies
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Novel Hydrodynamic Non-Equilibrium Model for Hypersonic Flows
Marco Panesi,
Professor, Director of Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS),
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Freedman's Link Packing Question
Elia Portnoy,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemical Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of C=C Bonds Enabled by PCET Mediator
Mingli Li,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Water and Redox Evolution in Earth's Mantle
Junjie (JJ) Dong,
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Comparative Planetary Evolution,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 17th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, February 18th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 19th, 2024
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special AMO Quantum Seminar
Novel strategies for hardware-efficient quantum processors
Harry Levine,
AWS Center for Quantum Computer (Caltech),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Complex saddles and possible chaos in string scatterings
Takuya Yoda,
Kyoto University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Graph learning models: theoretical understanding, limitations and mitigation
Yusu Wang,
Halicioglu Data Science Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Characterizing distant Solar System objects in the era of large scale surveys
Pedro Bernardinelli,
DiRAC Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanisms and consequences of interbacterial warfare
Prof. Joseph D. Mougous,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lynn M. and Michael D. Garvey Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology,
Department of Microbiology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Molecules For Dark Matter Detection
Benjamin Lillard,
University of Oregon,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Scaling for Growth: Technology to Product
Zainub Noor,
Director,
Scouting and Innovation,
Halliburton Labs,
Scott Gale,
Executive Director,
External Engagement,
Halliburton Labs,
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
An all-orders 2d chiral algebra for 4d form factors
Victor Fernandez,
University of Washington,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Transitions between harmful, benign and no overfitting in neural networks
Michael Murray,
Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
The Southern California Seismic Network: Earthquake Early Warning Operations and Research
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Entanglement-Enhanced Bioimaging and Sensing
Manni He,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Classically forbidden regions in the chiral model of twisted bilayer graphene
Michael Hitrik,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Brown Dwarfs: Extrasolar Comparative Magnetospheric Physics
Melodie Kao,
Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellow,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fate and transport of PFAS in soils: controlling processes, mathematical formulation, and practical modeling approaches
Bo Guo,
University of Arizona,