Institute Calendar
January 2025
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
New Modes for Vector Bosons in the Static Patch
Adel Rahman,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Literary Dimensions Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Nicole A. Sütterlin,
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Topological groups with tractable minimal dynamics
Andy Zucker,
Department of Pure Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Besicovitch's 21 Problem and Linear Programming
Camillo De Lellis,
School of Mathematics,
IAS,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
CANCELLED
Nick Scoville,
Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus,
Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED: Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
An Information Theory for Out-of-Order Information: Applications in DNA Data Storage and Genomics
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: what do we know and what do we need to know?
Douglas MacMartin,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Postponed! Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chemoproteogenomic approaches to stratify the functional and therapeutically relevant proteome
Keriann M. Backus,
Associate Professor,
College of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
8:00am
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1/17
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Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project Conference
Online Event
Information and Misinformation in Elections
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Don't get stuck: (no)flow and clogging of particulate suspensions
Alban Sauret,
Associate Professor and Clark Faculty Fellow,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland, College Park,
12:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Symplectic Aspects of Hyperplane Arrangements
Siyang Liu,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Segre classes and Lorentzian/covolume polynomials
Paolo Aluffi,
Department of Mathematics,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The arithmetic of power series and applications to irrationality
Yunqing Tang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Computing for Plasma Physics: Challenges and Opportunities
Nuno Loureiro,
MIT,
Friday, January 17th, 2025
9:00am
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6:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program Event
This workshop has been postponed to Friday, April 11, 2025.
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
New Phases in SYM
Prahar Mitra,
University of Amsterdam,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Magnetic Control of Chiral Phonons and Deep-Strong Light-Matter Coupling
Andrey Baydin,
Rice University,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Algebraic structure of knot Floer homology
David Popović,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ultrafast, all-Optical Coherence of Molecular Electron Spins
Erica Sutcliffe,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Climat DIYnamics
Jonathan Aurnou,
Professor,
Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (EPSS),
University of California Los Angeles,
Monday, January 20th, 2025
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Inferring the dynamics of locomotion using spectral mode representations
Alasdair Hastewell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB),
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Investigating the Mechanics of Architected Solids across Scales through Predictive Modeling
Ziran (Rachel) Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Origin of Life's Homochirality: From Magnetic Minerals to a Homochiral Genome
Furkan Ozturk,
Kavli-Laukien Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
10:00am
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3:30pm
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Hilbert space of de Sitter JT gravity
Jesse Held,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Pi-1-1 maximal almost disjoint families and Laver measurability
Asger Törnquist,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hardware / controls co-design to overcome challenges for aerial robots
Mark W. Mueller,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Molecular Assembly of Living and Lifelike Materials
Seu Sim,
Professor,
Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Geologic processes that control sourcing and migration of subsurface helium
Daniel Halford,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Tony Jun Huang
Acoustofluidics: merging acoustics and fluid mechanics for biomedical applications
Tony Jun Huang,
William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Pratt School of Engineering,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Modularity of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties
Salim Tayou,
Department of Mathematics,
Dartmouth College,