Institute Calendar
November 2024
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate, energy, and economic development: Exploratory research
Ken Caldeira,
Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
The strong law of large numbers as an axiom
Tobias Fritz,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Innsbruck,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent
John F. Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inertial Updating with General Information
Gerelt Tserenjigmid,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UC Santa Cruz,
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Principles of Computation by Protein Dimerization Networks"
Jacob Parres-Gold,
Graduate Student,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
See event detail for location
Incentivizing Information Acquisition
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Identifying the topological order of quantized half-filled Landau levels through their daughter states
12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy
Brandon Rayhaun,
Stony Brook University,
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Topological Laplace transform and decomposition of nc-Hodge structures
Shaowu Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Equivariant formal group laws and Quillen theorem
Yunze Lu,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Health and Disease
Cigall Kadoch,
Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Preparing for life detection strategies in future ocean world exploration
Bonnie Teece,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Origins and Habitability Lab,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Computing crystalline deformation rings via the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin patching method
Chengyang Bao,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Precision and Discovery at the Frontiers of Elementary Particle Physics
Josh Bendavid,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Network Phases in Block Polymers"
Kevin Dorfman,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Head,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
An Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled
Stuart Weitzman,
American shoe designer and the founder of the luxury shoe company Stuart Weitzman,
Friday, November 8th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Directly Observing the Ice-Water Interface with Molecular Resolution
Jingshan S. Du,
Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits
Cindy Keeler,
Arizona State University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Thermal Design of Functional Wearable Textile-Based Materials
Marquise Bell,
Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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POSTPONED: Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
This seminar has been postponed.
Manuel Mueller-Frank,
Professor of Economics,
IESE Business School,
University of Navarra,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A local automaton for the 2D toric code
Shankar Balasubramanian,
MIT,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Extracting Hidden Riches from Biomass: Focus on Fruit Wastes and Bioenergy Grasses
Shivali Banerjee,
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Trailblazer Seminar, Eri Takematsu
Controlling pleiotropy of therapeutic protein for skeletal regenerative medicine
Eri Takematsu, Ph.D.,
Postdoc,
Department of Surgery, Stanford Medicine,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Impact of Stellar Interactions on Black Hole Spin Evolution
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Trailblazer Seminar
Sample Complexity of Quantum Hypothesis Testing and Its Private Variant
Theshani Nuradha,
Ph.D. candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Integrated Convolutional and Graph Neural Networks to Advance Composites Analysis
Marwa Yacouti,
Ph.D. candidate,
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Space of Minimal Surfaces in S^3 and in B^3
Peter McGrath,
Department of Mathematics,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ubiquity of conical intersections in ultrafast photochemistry
Luis Banares,
Director of the Center for Ultrafast Lasers; Associate Research Professor,
Physical Chemistry Department,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
How Viable is Electroweak Baryogenesis?
Michael Ramsey-Musolf,
U Mass Amherst & Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Minute-scale Dynamics of Repeated Dike Intrusions in Iceland with Fiber-Optic Geodesy
Jiaxuan Li,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Seismo Lab,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 9th, 2024
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 10th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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