Institute Calendar
February 2020
Friday, February 7th, 2020
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Beyond the Pale Blue Dot: Seeing Distant Planets
Rich Terrile,
Astronomer and Voyager Imaging Team Member,
NASA-JPL,
Rob Zellem,
Exoplanetary Astronomer,
NASA-JPL,
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
11:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
DG center and cocenter of a monoidal category
Matt Hogancamp,
Mathematics Department,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the kinematics and dynamics of crystal-rich (hydrogranular) systems
George Bergantz,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Shock Compression of Molybdenum Single Crystals to High Stresses Tomoyuki Oniyama, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Workshop
Are your figures and cover submissions the best they can be?
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Narayanan Rengaswamy,
Graduate Student,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ultrafast Dynamics and Interactions of Molecular Vibrational Polaritons
Wei Xiong,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Overturning Ocean Circulations in Ocean Worlds" and "Observations of Exoplanetary Mass Loss with Ultra-Narrowband Helium Photometry"
Shreyas Vissapragada & Ana Lobo,
Graduate Students,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Regulation of Cardiopharyngeal Fates in Chordates"
Lionel Christiaen,
Associate Professor,
Biology,
New York University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Emergent Ferromagnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Aaron Sharpe,
PhD Candidate,
Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
6:15pm
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8:30pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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IUPAC Global Breakfast — Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders
IUPAC Global Breakfast — Building Bonds to Create Future Leaders
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Automating Resolution is NP-Hard
Albert Atserias,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Non-Archimedean tsi Polish groups, and obstructions to Borel reducibility
Shaun Allison,
Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Steve Flammia,
Professor,
University of Sydney,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Spitzer and the High Redshift Universe: Approaching Cosmic Dawn
Richard Ellis,
Professor of Astrophysics,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Graph Signal Processing for Machine Learning Applications: New Insights and Algorithms
Antonio Ortega,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What's on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools
Nagissa Mahmoudi,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
A safari through thousands of 2D materials guided by data science
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Journey to the Arctic
Erin Burkett,
ESL Graduate Writing Instructor; Lecturer in Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Fluctuations in the Life of a Cell: Maintaining Order Amidst Disorder
Vikram Deshpande,
Professor,
Department of Materials Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanomaterial Platforms for Transgene-Free Plant Genetic Engineering
Gözde Demirer,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Friday, February 14th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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