Institute Calendar
January 2021
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
What Can Ancient Materials Teach Us About Designing Sustainable Materials Today?
Admir Masic,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Archaeological Materials,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Online Event
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
8:30am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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9:55am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Computational and data-driven models for modern medicine
Spencer Bryngelson,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Structurally Characterizing a New Conformation of the ATPase Get3
Michelle Fry (Jensen Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture
Online Event
Assortative Matching, Innovation Rates, and the Great Divergence
Gary W. Cox (PhD '83),
William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light
Monika Schleier-Smith,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Spacecraft Origami
Online Event
Manan Arya,
Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Lizbeth B. De La Torre,
Creative Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, January 15th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: "Snowballs in the Desert: Studying Climate Transitions in Earth's Deep Past"
Online Event
Dustin Morris,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
New non-perturbative effects in the gravitational path integral
Jordan Cotler,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Research and Development on New Energies
Online Event
Dr. Amy Kelly,
Caltech alumni, Geochemistry,
Shell Oil,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Estimating model error using sparsity-promoting ensemble Kalman inversion
Jinlong Wu,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online Event
Towards realistic post-merger simulations of binary neutron stars with SphericalNR
Vassilios Mewes,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Computational Astrophysics,
Oak Ridge National Lab,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Online Event
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Xichen Shi,
PhD Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, January 18th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Stationary random entire functions and related questions
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Single-Cell Analysis of Normal and Perturbed Early T Cell Developmental Processes
Wen Zhou,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
8:00am
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10:00am
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9:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Florian Dörfler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers
Stephen Smartt,
Professor,
Queens University Belfast,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Predicting the Course of Covid-19 and other epidemic and endemic disease
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Universal minimal flows of homeomorphism groups of high-dimensional manifolds
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Why is it so hard to model sea ice?
Cecilia Bitz,
University of Washington,
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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● POSTPONED: T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been postponed.
Yael Niv,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture: an overview and a new paradigm to address multiple solutions
Laura De Lorenzis,
Professor,
Computational Mechanics,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Designing New Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tools to Measure Antibiotic Susceptibility
Emily Savela (Ismagilov Group),
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Neutrino Geoscience: measuring the Earth's neutrino flux and constraining its composition
Hiroko Watanabe,
Tohoku University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Quantum Extremal Islands Made Easy
Rob Myers,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
A family of 3d steady gradient solitons that are flying wings
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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The hydrodynamics of rowing
Online Event
The hydrodynamics of rowing
Jerry Westerweel,
Professor,
Delft University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
All Day
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