Seminars
May 2023
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
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Visual Culture Seminar
Geocinema: Earth Sensing as Filmmaking
Asia Bazdyrieva,
Art Historian and Artist,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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10:00am
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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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Friday, May 19th, 2023
8:00am
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Fracture Behavior of Magnesium: Mechanisms and Mechanics
R. Narasimhan,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Observation of mHz-level cooperative Lamb shifts in an optical atomic clock
Ross Hutson,
Jun Ye Group,
JILA/University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
R-adaptivity, deep learning and the deep Ritz method
Chris J. Budd,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
University of Bath,
1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Towards Universal Integrated Laser Sources with Nonlinear Photonics
Luis M. Ledezma,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Peng Hu
Computational compensation for model imperfections in photoacoustic computed tomography
Peng Hu,
Medical Engineering Ph.D. Student, Advised by Professor Lihong Wang,
COIL Lab,
California Instittute of Technology,
4:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Learning operators with neural networks
Samuel Lanthaler,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 20th, 2023
7:00pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Robust Safety-Critical Control: A Lyapunov and Barrier Approach
Andrew Taylor,
Graduate Student,
Control & Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Graphon Systems
Francesca Parise,
Assistant Professor,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Optimal Design of Soft Responsive Actuators and Impact Resistant Structures
Andrew Akerson,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Physics-based and data-driven computational models of inelastic deformations
Eric Ocegueda,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
9:00am
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Alessio Tamborini
A Novel Approach to Cardiac Health Assessment Using a Redesign of the Brachial Cuff Device
Alessio Tamborini,
MedE Ph.D. Student,
Medical Engineering. Advised by Professor Mory Gharib,
California Instittute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Using dynamic bias arrangement to handle the idiosyncrasies of photonic quantum computing
Mihir Pant,
PsiQuantum,
Naomi Nickerson,
PsiQuantum,
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
A new paradigm for computing spectra, pseudospectra, and continuous spectra of infinite-dimensional operators
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
MINION floats: Robotic fleets to observe the ocean biological carbon pump
Melissa Omand,
University of Rhode Island,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online and In-Person Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
8:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Flow, transport, and mixing limited processes in confined & heterogeneous media
Pietro De Anna,
Professor,
Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE),
University of Lausanne (UNIL),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Uncertainty and Decentralization: Two Themes in an Energy Transformation
Lucien D. Werner,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Friday, May 26th, 2023
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A Chiral Light-matter Interface with Superconducting Qubits
Chaitali Joshi,
AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mirhosseini Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics and performance of wind-energy systems in unsteady flow conditions
Nathaniel Wei,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Monday, May 29th, 2023
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