Seminars
May 2023
Monday, May 1st, 2023
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Multicontinuum Homogenization and Applications
Yalchin Efendiev,
Ewing-Mobil Chair in Computational Science and Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Scientific Computation,
Texas A & M University,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
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Special ACM Seminar
Asymptotic Stability in a Free Boundary PDE Model of Active Matter
Leonid Berlyand,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
8:00am
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
See event detail for location
Quantum thermal state preparation
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen,
Brandao Group,
1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Learning and Control of Dynamical Systems
Ali Sahin Lale,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Untangling aerosol-cloud interactions with machine learning
Duncan Watson-Parris,
UCSD/Scripps,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning itineracy of correlated ground and excited states in semiconductor moiré lattices
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
3:00pm
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Friday, May 5th, 2023
10:00am
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Allocating with Priorities and Quotas: Algorithms, Complexity, and Dynamics
David Kempe,
Professor of Computer Science,
USC,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unconditional Separations with Constant Depth Circuits
Adam Bene Watts,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revolutionizing Hypersonic Flow Simulation: Physics-Aware Coarse Graining and Maximum Entropy Principles for Next-Generation Aerothermal Modeling
Marco Panesi,
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS),
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:30pm
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Monday, May 8th, 2023
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquim
Learning Matchings, Maps, and Trajectories
Jonathan Niles-Weed,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Data Science,
New York University,
5:00pm
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Caltech Everhart Lecture Series Talk #1
Imaging the Beginning of Time from the South Pole
Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Soliman,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser,
Assistant Director for Technology Transfer,
Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships,
Caltech,
John Peck,
Partner,
KPPB law firm.,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
8:30am
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10:00am
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Online Event
Lower bounds on the overhead of a quantum memory
Omar Fawzi,
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What is the aerosol state in the ambient atmosphere? Or: Particle-resolved modeling to tackle structural uncertainty in aerosol models
Nicole Riemer,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Investigations of Topological and Quantum Phenomena in Epitaxial Semimetallic Thin Films
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Making Wearable Materials Smarter
Online and In-Person Event
Chiara Daraio,
G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning, Mechanics, and Metallurgy
Allison M. Beese,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Dr. Samir Mitragotri
A Hitchhiker's and Backpacker's Approach to Drug Delivery
Professor Samir Mitragotri,
Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Visual Storytelling Before Comics: Theorizing the Sequential Image
Rachel Teukolsky,
Professor of English,
Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science,
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
A Celebration of Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Yolanda Gonzalez,
Artist,
Betty Avila,
Executive Director,
Self Help Graphics and Art,
Dr. Claudia Zapata,
UCLA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicano/a Studies,
UCLA,
Dr. J.V. Decemvirale,
Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Friday, May 12th, 2023
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Applied Physics Seminar
Lighting up the brain: Wafer-scale integrated photonics for implantable neural interfaces
Joyce Poon,
Max Planck Institute,
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Arrovian Social Choice and Decentralizability: An Integrated Approach
Wonki Jo Cho,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Korea University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4
Xinwei Li,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning
Maegan Tucker,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Interactions of shock waves and turbulence through numerical simulations
Ivan Bermejo-Moreno,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Random Tessellation Forests
Eliza O'Reilly,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Monday, May 15th, 2023
8:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Low-Power and Miniaturized Medical Electronics for In-Vivo Localization and Tracking
Saransh Sharma,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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*Postponed - Date TBD* CMX Lunch Seminar
Doubly Noisy Linear Systems and the Kaczmarz Algorithm
Anna Ma,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Geocinema: Earth Sensing as Filmmaking
Asia Bazdyrieva,
Art Historian and Artist,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Where is the bottom of the terrestrial water cycle?
Jennifer McIntosh,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electron correlation and topology in rhombohedral multilayer graphene
4:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture: Gang Chen
Rethinking Evaporation: Thermal and Optical Evaporation from Pure Water and Hydrogels
Gang Chen,
Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, MIT,
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense, Ben Schulze
Insights into the sources of atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases in California
Benjamin Schulze,
Graduate Student, Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Enabling Functional Outcomes by Programming the Responsivity of Liquid Crystalline Polymer
Tim White,
Gallogly Professor of Engineering,
College of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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