Institute Calendar
March 2025
Friday, March 7th, 2025
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum device characterization of and with gate-dependent noise
Ingo Roth,
Technology Innovation Institute (TII),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Radiative plasmas in pulsar magnetospheres
Alex (Sasha) Chernoglazov,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
High-Energy Astrophysics,
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Faculty Talk - Rebecca Voorhees
The molecular logic of protein homeostasis: novel pathways for biogenesis and quality control
Rebecca Voorhees,
Assistant Professor,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Examples of invariants of 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies up to 2-equivalence
Maksymilian Manko,
Institut für Mathematik,
Universität Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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**Canceled** Seismo Lab Seminar
Seulgi Moon,
Associate Professor of Geomorphology,
Department of Earth, Planeatry, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Palladium Cross-Coupling of Cobaltocenium Salts: An Entry Point to New Families of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mediators
Sasha Alabugin,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 8th, 2025
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, March 9th, 2025
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 10th, 2025
9:30am
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10:30am
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Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Jinghao Cao,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Unsymmetric Coordination Environment of Bimetallic Active Sites".
Shiyu Zhang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Effusive Volcanism as a Window into Planetary Evolution
Joana Voigt,
Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar
Cascade of strongly correlated quantum states in a partially filled kagome flat band
Professor Berthold Jaeck,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
9:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Stiffness and Shape Changing Structured Media
Tracy Lu,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Complex materials through simple chemistry
Grigorii Skorupskii,
postdoctoral scholar,
Chemistry,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
From muscle to memory: role of periodic ER-plasma membrane junctions in supporting long-range Ca2+ signal integration in dendrites
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,
Senior Group Leader and Head of 4D Cellular Physiology,
Janelia Research Campus,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Matrix Processing: Complexity and Application to Partition Function Estimation
Thais de Lima Silva,
Technology Innovation Institute (TII Abu Dhabi),
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Canceled: DIX Planetary Science Seminar
NEOMOD: Dynamical Model of Near-Earth Objects from a Decade of Catalina Sky Survey Observations
David Nasvorny,
Institute Scientist,
Department of Space Studies,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Shane Ardo,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum Precision Measurement of Positrons and Radioactive Molecules for New Physics
Xing Fan,
Northwester University & Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Propagation of waves with low regularity
Jared Wunsch,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Don't Use Machine Learning To Evaluate Grants
Kathleen Creel,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science,
Northeastern University,
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Advanced Nano Manufacturing Enables Probing Fundamental Mechanical Behaviors of Materials
Wenxin Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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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
Paul Gronke,
Professor of Political Science, Reed College; Founder and Director, Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC),
Paul Manson,
Research Assistant Professor, Portland State University Center for Public Service,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
A geometric formulation of the cosmological wavefunction
Carolina Figueiredo,
Princeton University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ripples in a trillion-degree soup of quarks and gluons
Yi Chen,
Vanderbilt University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Diffractively generated resonances and trace formulae
Jared Wunsch,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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APhMS Special Seminar
Mechanics of Publishing: The industry, the process, and journal metrics
Dr. Brian Solis,
Senior Journal Manager,
AIP Publishing,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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