Institute Calendar
May 2021
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning-based Planning and Control: Opportunities and Challenges
Jonathan How,
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Classification of the approximability of all finite Max-CSPs in the dynamic streaming setting
Santhoshini Velusamy,
Graduate Student,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Monitoring Teams
Marina Halac,
Professor of Economics and Director of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Don't Fear the Spiders: New Insights from Redback Millisecond Pulsars
Jay Strader,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A surprising role for microbial "antibiotics" in the promotion of phosphorus bioavailability
Darcy McRose,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Watson Lecture - From the Soil to the Clinic: How Infection-Causing Microbes Thrive Without Oxygen
Online Event
Dianne K. Newman,
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Executive Officer for Molecular Biology,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Neural codes in early sensory areas maximize fitness
Todd Hare,
Associate Professor of Neuroeconomics and Human Development,
University of Zurich,
10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to applications
Shengqiang Cai,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UC San Diego,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Developing multivalent nanoparticle vaccines against current and future viruses
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
CDRexAb: Antibody Small-Molecule Conjugates with Computationally Designed Target-Binding Synergy
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
*Seminar cancelled*
Dr. Daniel Dar (Newman Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
Searching for Dark Matter Interactions throughout Cosmic History
Kim Boddy,
UT Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
Hanna Rose Shell,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History, Caltech (returning 2022); Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, University of Colorado-Boulder,
Friday, May 14th, 2021
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Worldsheet correlators in AdS3
Lorenz Eberhardt,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Online Event
"Single-Nanoconstruct Dynamics and Interactions on Live-Cell Membranes"
Teri W. Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
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Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei
Rostom Mbarek,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
The University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Khovanov homology via Floer theory of the 4-punctured sphere
3:00pm
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Probing the Buckling of Thin Shell Space Structures
Online Event
Fabien Royer
Fabien Royer,
PhD Candidate,
Aeronautics,
GALCIT,
Saturday, May 15th, 2021
9:00am
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3:00pm
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Monday, May 17th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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The Law of Large Numbers for Large Stable Matchings
Jacob Schwartz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Haifa,
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Adrienne Su,
Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence,
Dickinson College,
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market
Karam Kang,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Tiling the integers with translates of one tile: the Coven-Meyerowitz tiling conditions for three prime factors
3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
The Adaptive Charging Network Research Portal: Systems, Tools, and Algorithms
Zachary Lee,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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4:50pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Leveraging coupled atmosphere-interior-redox models to predict terrestrial planet atmospheric evolution and anticipate exoplanet biosignatures
Joshua Krissansen-Totten,
NASA Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, Santa Cruz,