Institute Calendar
November 2024
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
6:00pm
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Friday, November 15th, 2024
10:00am
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5:00pm
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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
Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations
Sean Colin-Ellerin,
UC Berkeley,
11:30am
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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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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
When is a topological phase topological? Beginnings of a classification
Daniel Ranard,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Proper Time Correlators in Field Theory and Gravity
Allic Sivaramakrishnan,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Extracting information on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Gamma-ray Bursts
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling drag and heat transfer on riblets and roughness
Daniel Chung,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Minimal (hyper)surface doublings and their geometry
Nicolaos Kapouleas,
Department of Mathematics,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mo-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Enabling the Construction of Highly Enantioenriched 1,4-Dicarbonyl Scaffolds
Chloe Cerlone,
Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
The Three-Body Problem: Supraglacial Lakes, the Greenland Ice Sheet, and Subglacial Sediments
Wenyuan Fan,
Associate Professor Geophysics,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
University of California San Diego,
Saturday, November 16th, 2024
11:00am
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1:00pm
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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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Sunday, November 17th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, November 18th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk with MIT
Another AI is Possible
Catherine D'Ignazio,
Director of the MIT Data + Feminism Lab,
Department of Urban Studies and Planning,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Job Market Seminar
See event detail for location
Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail: A Study on Commitment Failure
Polina Detkova,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Isotopic fingerprints of the mechanisms of lignin destruction in the environment
John Eiler,
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry; Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Another AI is Possible
Catherine D'Ignazio,
Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning and Director of the Data + Feminism Lab,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Finite-Dimensional Robust Controllers for Distributed Parameter Systems
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Salmon vs the landslide: The rockslide that blocked the Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada
Jeremy Venditti,
Director of Environmental Science & Professor,
School of Environmental Science & Geography,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Algorithmic Tools for Redistricting: Fairness via Analytics
David B. Shmoys,
Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management & Leadership Studies,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Department of Computer Science,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anomalous Continuous Translations
Nathan Seiberg,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Exploring non-left-orderability in 3-manifold groups
Zipei Nie,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Where the current flows in a Chern insulator
Roderich Moessner,
Professor,
Condensed Matter,
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
L-space satellite operators and knot Floer homology
Daren Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
9:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
On reconstructing unknown state and parameters in hydrodynamic systems from time-series data
Vincent Martinez,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
The City University of New York - Hunter College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Moore Scholar Seminar - Ron Diskin
The intricate cell entry mechanisms of arenaviruses
Ron Diskin,
Professor,
Department of Chemical and Structural Biology,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Dieudonné theory via cohomology of classifying stacks
Shubhodip Mondal,
Department of Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Burke Institute Lecture Series
Online and In-Person Event
Introduction to turbulence for physicists
Gregory Falkovich,
Weizmann Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
A Novel Approach to Revealing the Early Stellar Spins of >1Gyr-Old Sun-like Stars through Secular Dynamics
Thea Faridani,
Ph. D Candidate,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel
John Asker,
Armen Alchian Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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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
Interacting Dark Radiation and Cosmological Tensions
Hengameh Bagherian,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
What are the Prospects for Ranked Choice Voting?
Christian Grose,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
USC,
Andrew Sinclair,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Claremont McKenna College,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Measurable domatic partitions
Edward Hou,
Department of Mathematics,
Calteh,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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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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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Fundamental Physics and Cosmology from Stellar Mass Binary Black Holes
Will Farr,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,