Institute Calendar
February 2025
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
10:30am
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12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Mean field limits for Consensus-Based Optimization and Sampling
Urbain Vaes,
Researcher (Inria Starting Faculty Position) /Lecturer in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Inria Paris / NYU Paris,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Quantifying Tidal versus Non-tidal Stresses in Driving Time-Varying Fluxes of Enceladus' Plume Eruptions
Ashley Schoenfeld,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Jet Propulsion Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Renormalization, semiconvexity, and applications
Roland Bauerschmidt,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Professor Bill Bridges Memorial Symposium
Best Practices I Have Learned from Bill and the CEOs of Successful Startup Companies
Dr. Milton M. Chang,
Caltech Trustee,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
8:00am
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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
Supersymmetric Soft Theorems
Adam Tropper,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
From Design to Disclosure
S. Nageeb Ali,
Professor of Economics,
Penn State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Canonicity of the Shift
Zoltán Vidnyánszky,
Institute of Mathematics,
Eötvös Loránd University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Geodetic Evidence of Magma Reservoir Evolution Beneath Ol Doinyo Lengai
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
L-Functionals and Infrared Problem in Quantum Electrodynamics
Albert Schwarz,
UC Davis & Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Tales of Dust-Enshrouded Eruptions: Solving Missing Links from Planets to Supermassive Black Holes
Kishalay De,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mechanisms shaping the atmospheric hydrological cycle in a changing climate
Dave Bonan,
CICOES Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Electrical networks and Lagrangian Grassmannians
Terrence George,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar
Adapting to Growing Wildfire Property Risk
Judson Boomhower,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Direct Integration of 2D Materials for Next Generation Electronic Devices
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
"Universal Scaling of Phase Diagrams of Polymer Solutions"
Dr. Chi Wu,
Director of the Center of Food Science and Processing, Shenzhen University; Wei Lun Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Honorary Professor of Physics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, February 27th, 2025
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Building frameworks for physics missing from climate models
Kasturi Shah,
McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Seminar - Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Changing the Gut Microbiome Improves Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown,
Professor,
Molecular/Cellular Biology Program,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Lunch Seminar
Where do all the scores come from? – generation accuracy of diffusion model, and multimodal sampling via denoising annealing
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
A hyperbolicity conjecture for adjoint bundles
Wern Yeong,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Remodeling Conjecture with descendants
Song Yu,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Amanda Oehlert,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosesntiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Causality and Positivity Constraints on Theory Space
Leonardo Rastelli,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Science as social choice
Conor Mayo-Wilson,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Washington, Seattle,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Where is tree-level string theory?
Leonardo Rastelli,
Stony Brook University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Dynamic (In)Consistency, Revelation Principle, and Full Surplus Extraction
Mengxi Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Bonn,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Addressing the electronic structure and transport properties of correlated materials from first principles
Tommaso Chiarotti,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Bernardi Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Templates for all seasons?!? Gravitational waveforms from perturbation theory for LISA (and LIGO/Virgo/Kagra?!?)
Gabriel Piovano,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Physique théorique et Mathématique,
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Einstein metrics on even-dimensional spheres
Jan Nienhaus,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Enantioselective Nucleophilic Florination of Alkyl Electrophiles via Copper Catalysis
Zhuoyan Wang,
Graduate Student (Fu Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Improved Ground Motion Prediction with Multi-Resolution Models in Southern and Central California
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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