Institute Calendar
December 2024
Friday, December 6th, 2024
9:00am
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5:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Randomness in conformal field theories
Moshe Rozali,
University of British Columbia,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-reciprocal phase transitions
Peter Littlewood,
University of Chicago,
11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The "visible" and "invisible": stars as tracers for the Milky Way formation
Xiaowei Ou,
Graduate Student,
Dept. of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lighting the fuse to enable metamaterials for passive, adaptive flow control
Andres Goza,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The Isoperimetric Problem in the Cube and Torus
Federico Glaudo,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Earthquakes and slow slip events controlled by fault zone fluid transport
So Ozawa,
Assistant Professor (Research Associate),
Earthquake Research Institute,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dividing al-ʿUlūm: Mathematics as a 'Rational Science' in the Post-Classical Islamicate World
Julia Tomasson,
PhD Candidate,
Department of History,
Columbia University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 7th, 2024
8:00am
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12/10
11:59pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 8th, 2024
6:00pm
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10:30pm
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Monday, December 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The chemical compositions of massive quiescent galaxies across cosmic time with JWST / The first sample of orbital properties for stars stripped in binaries: towards population statistics
Aliza Beverage,
Final-year Ph.D. student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Cynthia Wolberger
Histone ubiquitination in transcription regulation
Cynthia Wolberger,
Director,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
John Hopkins University - School of Medicine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Explore Bourgain and Chang's nonlinear Roth theorem in various settings
Guo-Dong Hong,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Moment Restrictions in Nonlinear Panel Data Models with Feedback
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
8:00am
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12/13
11:59pm
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12:00pm
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Efforts to Increase Public Trust in Elections in 2024: What Did We Learn That We Can Apply to 2026 and Beyond?
Tommy Gong,
Deputy County Clerk-Recorder for Contra Costa County,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemical Genomics: Small Molecule Mechanism in the Era of High-Throughput Genetics
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Encoding Structure and Flexibility: A Gaussian Process Approach to Political Science Modeling
Jacob Montgomery,
Professor and Director of Data Science Training,
Department of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Fast Algorithms for Spanwise Periodic Incompressible External Flows: From Simulation to Analysis
Wei Hou,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"The origins and endpoints of bacterial endosymbiosis"
John McCutcheon,
Associate Center Director and Professor, School of Life Sciences, HHMI Investigator, Assoc Center Dir, & Professor, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution,
School of Life Sciences,
Arizona State University,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Charting the Gravitational-wave Universe At Light-year Wavelengths
Stephen Taylor,
Vanderbilt University,
Friday, December 13th, 2024
All Day
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Saturday, December 14th, 2024
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:30am
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9:00pm
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Sunday, December 15th, 2024
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, December 16th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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NB-CNS Seminar - Vinny Augustine
Peering Inside: Cardiac interoceptive neural networks governing physiology and behavior in health and disease
Vinny Augustine,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Neurobiology,
University of California - San Diego,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Anthropogenic Emissions and the Future of Our Atmosphere: I. Cyclohexanol Chemistry and Aerosol Formation in an Environmental Chamber II. K2CO3-Based Sorbent Development and Testing in a Packed Bed Reactor for CO2 Capture
Hannah K. Szentkuti,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
9:00am
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9:01am
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Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project
Online Event
Election Audits and their Effect on Public Trust in Elections
Jennifer Morrell,
CEO and Co-Founder of The Elections Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, December 19th, 2024
All Day
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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