Institute Calendar
May 2025
Thursday, May 29th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A non-ergodic ground motion model for the Groningen, Netherlands: Merging physics-based and recorded data
Grigorios (Greg) Lavrentiadis,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Synthetic Protein Circuits: From Fundamentals to Therapeutics"
Shiyu Xia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Elowitz Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision QCD and Parton Shower matching for LHC event simulations
Christian Biello,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics, Boltzmannstrasse 8, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Dynamic Safety Under Uncertainty: A Control Barrier Function Approach
Ryan Cosner,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Importance of Physiological Temperature in Biomedical and Biophysical Research
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
CANCELED: Colloidal Science and Soft Matter Physics: The Uncredited Co-Authors of Every Microbial Biofilm
Patrick Secor,
Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology,
Montana State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Using meandering rivers to study the present and future carbon fluxes from Arctic landscapes
Emily Geyman,
Graduate Student Researcher,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Xiaodong Xu,
Boeing Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program Event
Human Energy: A Conversation about Art, Power, and Resource Extraction
Jessica Segall,
Lecturer in Visual Culture and Spring 2025 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Brian Jacobson,
Professor of Visual Culture,
Caltech,
Friday, May 30th, 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
Quasinormal Corrections to Near-Extremal Black Hole Thermodynamics
Dan Kapec,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics
Haifeng Xu,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
To reset, or not to reset -- that is the question
Gyorgy Geher,
Riverlane,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Multielectron Redox in Lithium-Rich, Industrial-Element Sulfides for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
Eshaan Patheria,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Modelling the kilonovae from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: From Photospheric to Nebular Phase
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Building closed-loop frameworks for AI-guided protein design
Alec Lourenço,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the topology of the manifolds with positive intermediate curvature
Xuan Yao,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Investigations of a Photoelectrocatalytic PCET Mediator
Catherine G. Romero,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, May 31st, 2025
8:00am
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Ongoing
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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