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Monday, April 1st, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Developing isotopic tools to study carbon flow in cow rumen upon inhibition of methane-producing microbes
Elliot Mueller, Grad student, Resnick Scholar, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion Models
Stefano Ermon, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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William T. Freeman/MIT

Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia
William T. Freeman, Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS, Massachusetts Institue of Technology,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Manufacturing
Karthish Manthiram, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Additive Manufacturing: Technology Maturation and Synchrotron x-ray Microscopy Insights
Anthony Rollett, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Man-made earthquakes and the energy transition
Ruben Juanes, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti

Molecular Engineering of Biointerfaces and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti, Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Chemistry, Duke University,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
10:00am 11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Experiments on a new favorite among diamond quantum networkers: the SnV center
Ronald Hanson, Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner, Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
1:00pm 5:00pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium

Gözde Demirer, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute or Technology,
Carlos Morales-Guio, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
William Tarpeh, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University,
Monday, April 8th, 2024
11:30am 12:30pm
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Caltech Optica Student Chapter Lecture Series

Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators
Alexander Gaeta, David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Colu,
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3:00pm 4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Alexander Lvovsky/Oxford

Optical neural networks: from computer vision to superresolution imaging
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Worst-Case Learning from Inaccurate Data and under Multifidelity Models
Simon Foucart, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Worst-Case Learning from Inaccurate Data and under Multifidelity Models
Simon Foucart, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

New ice cores from coastal West Antarctica to constrain climate forcing on Amundsen Sea regional ice shelves and outlet glaciers: initiating a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA)
Peter Neff, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map
James Gornet, Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Fertile ground for quantum materials, and how to grow them
Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC,
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
10:00am 11:00am
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Science Journey: How Soil Microbes Help Us Fight Climate Change

Hannah Dion-Kirschner, Caltech graduate student, Geobiology,
  • Public Event
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Do we really need all that data? Learning and control for contact-rich manipulation
Michael Posa, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, April 12th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 12, 2024

Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Riccardo Caniato, PMA,
Dr. Maksym Figat, Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology,
  • Public Event
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Wall-Modeled LES: Nonequilibrium Flows and Convergence
George Park, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 15th, 2024
3:00pm 4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Low rank approximation for faster optimization
Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Non-Backtracking spectral methods for sparse matrices and tensors
Yizhe Zhu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Non-reciprocity in quantum materials
Philip Moll, Max-Planck Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The Stirring Tropics
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava, Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems, Caltech,
Shi-Zhuo Looi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

What limits the critical temperature for superconductivity in quantum materials?
Milan Allan, Associate Professor, Leiden University,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Micro/nanoscale reactive transport toward decarbonization
Wen Song, Assistant Professor, Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin,
1:30pm 2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Zhiyang Jin

Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes
Zhiyang Jin, Ph.D. Candidate, Shapiro Lab, Medical Engineering Department, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series-Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.

Pursuit of Precision Health: The digital twin opportunity
Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health Engineering, Robert A Welch Professor Inaugural Dean School of Engineering Medicine, Texas A&M University / Houston Methodist Research Institute,
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Friday, April 19th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Majorana zero modes in germanium-based devices
Katharina Laubscher, University of Maryland, College Park,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Perspectives on using AI for climate and weather simulation
Mike Pritchard, Professor, Department of Earth System Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
3:00pm 5:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

Scaling Observations
Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California,
Anna Henchman, Boston University,
Omar Nasim, University of Regensburg,
Anne Sullivan, University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Stochastic particle systems for global optimization: a journey from metaheuristics to PDEs
Lorenzo Pareschi, Professor, Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

The Classical Limit of Quantum Max-Cut
Vir Bulchandani, Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization
Siting Liu, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Using seafloor cables to observe surface waves in high resolution: from the sea ice zone to the surf zone
Madison Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
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