Institute Calendar
May 2024
Friday, May 10th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Coupling & Collisions: The Dynamic Lives of Galactic Atmospheres
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Burn-resistant materials for high-performance reusable rocket engines
Zack Cordero,
Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knots in circle bundles
Andrew Yarmola,
Department of Mathematics,
Yale University,
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,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 11th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2024
9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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,
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),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Survey of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field / A systematic study of AGN torus with NuSTAR
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Orbital Architecture of Planetary Systems formed by Gravitational Scattering and Collisions
Eiichiro Kokubo,
Professor,
Division of Science, Center for Computational Astrophysics,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Rethinking the Connections of Machine Learning and Control in the Era of Generative AI
Bin Hu,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation
Zhiquan Sun,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Freeze-Cast Porous Ceramics: Tailoring Chemistry and Porosity to Applications
Laura Quinn,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A theoretical framework for fault-slip styles from aseismic creep to regular earthquakes
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding the Tropospheric Impacts of Isoprene-Derived Carbonyl Oxide Criegee Intermediates: Direct Studies of an Elusive Class of Reactive Intermediates.
Rebecca Caravan,
Assistant Chemist,
Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Homotopy Groups of Spheres
Zhouli Xu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Choose Your Moments: Peer Review And Scientific Risk Taking
Josh Graff Zivin,
Professor; Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations; Director, Cowhey Center on Global Transformation; UC San Diego,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Novel Reactivity and Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Xiaoyu Dan Tong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Search for Kerr from Multipole Moments on the Worldline
Trevor Scheopner,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
On False Positive Error
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Invariant uniformization and reducibility
Michael Wolman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave
Selma de Mink,
Scientific Director,
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changing Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns over the North Pacific
Clara Deser,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiota interactions
Pamela V. Chang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev,
Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Risk Aversion and Insurance Propensity
Fabio Maccheroni,
Full Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Università Bocconi,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
8:00am
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5/19
2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
How "to see a world in a grain of sand"?
Rouslan Krechetnikov,
Professor,
Mathematical & Statistical Sciences,
University of Alberta,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Model T
Joshua Hausman,
Associate Professor of Public Policy,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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