Institute Calendar
May 2025
Ongoing
Ongoing
–
5/6
11:59pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
CTESS Seminar
Social and economic inequality
Margherita Comola,
Associate Professor,
Paris School of Economics,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
PhD Thesis Seminar
Elucidating the Role of Transition Metal Electronic Structure in Catalysis and Spin Relaxation
Kaitlin Luedecke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:45pm
–
3:45pm
Add to Cal
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Polarized endomorphism of log Calabi-Yau pairs
José Yáñez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
LA Probability Forum
Root recovery for infection processes on trees and graphs
Louigi Addario-Berry,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Enumerative invariants of derived categories
Reginald Anderson,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Claremont McKenna College,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Biochemistry Seminar
Anti-viral defense in bacteria: first responders, failsafes, and backup systems
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Transport of nanoparticles through complex, crowded fluids
Jacinta Conrad,
Frank M. Tiller Professor,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geology Club Seminar
Remote Sensing Methods for Measuring River Mobility
Evan Greenberg,
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series: Nobel Laureate, Professor Eric Betzig
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig,
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Number Theory Seminar
Smyth's conjecture and a non-deterministic Hasse principle
Jordan Ellenberg,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Colloquium - Lauritsen Lecture
Online and In-Person Event
Ashvin Vishwanath,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Sciences History Seminar
Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation
Zhiguo He,
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
5:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
LA Probability Forum
TBA
Miklos Racz,
Department of Statistics and Data Science & Department of Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards quantum simulating holographic duality
Julian Sonner,
University of Geneva,
11:00am
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Remnants of Double and Quadruple Detonations in Binary White Dwarfs
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezić,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Nearly geodesic surfaces are filling
Xiaolong Hans Han,
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences and Fudan University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rational Design of Molecular Quantum Bits.
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:30pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
10:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:30pm
Add to Cal
Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Informal Seminar - Chetana Sachidanandan
Disease models in zebrafish reveal hidden neurocristopathies
Chetana Sachidananda,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
2:30pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
Informal Seminar - Murali Dharan Bashyam
New revelations from an old disease: studying somatic DNA aberrations in a poorly understood Colorectal cancer subtype unravels neomorphic gain of function and a novel mode of gene activation
Murali Dharan Bashyam,
Staff Scientist,
Molecular Oncology,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Math Teaching Seminar
Conversations about Math Teaching
Matthew Gherman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:45pm
–
4:45pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Stabilizing Halide-Based Redox Active Materials for Rechargeable Battery Applications
Alexis Grimaud,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the Evolution of the Arctic
Justin Strauss,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Darmouth College,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Autonomous Model Building with Reinforcement Learning: An Application with Neutrino Flavor Symmetries
Jake Rudolph,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science Talk
Empirical Analysis of Market Entry with Many Potential Entrants
Bryan Graham,
Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Applied Physics Seminar
Dynamic Control of Radiative Thermal Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
DIX Planetary Science Seminar
"Characterizing Bare-Rock Exoplanets in the Era of JWST" & "Initial Results from the First Mass Loss Survey of Gas Giants Orbiting F Stars"
Kim Paragas,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Morgan Saidel,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Mathematics Colloquium
Stark's Conjectures and Explicit Class Field Theory
Samit Dasgupta,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Quantifying Inefficiency
Yannai Gonczarowski,
Professor of Economics and of Computer Science,
Harvard University,