Seminars
May 2024
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
8:00am
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5/7
11:59pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What is driving the recent large increases in global atmospheric methane?
Youmi Oh,
NOAA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Converting CO2, water, and sunlight into liquid fuels: Towards affordable solar fuels and chemicals
Aisulu Aitbekova,
postdoctoral scholar,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nature in Motion: The power of bioinspired design in unraveling locomotion across mediums and scales
Aimy Wissa,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, May 3rd, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: I, Human: Unlocking the Secret of Human Intelligence
Sneha R. Aenugu,
Caltech graduate student,
Social & Decision Neuroscience,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shock Waves: A Versatile Tool to Investigate Damage and Injury Mechanisms
Sarah A. Bentil,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Iowa State University of Science and Technology,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Towards a Synthetic Nucleus: Separating Transcription and Translation in Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems
Zoila E. Jurado Quiroga,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Machine Learning and Inference Methods for Surrogate Modeling and Inexpensive Characterization of Elastodynamic Systems
Alexander C. Ogren,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Signal Processing for Large Arrays: Convolutional Beamspace, Hybrid Processing, and Distributed Algorithms
Po-Chih Chen,
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
Alice in Fluxland: Down the rabbit hole of surface-atmosphere exchange and reactive organic carbon.
Delphine Farmer,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Complete constraints on hyperbolic surface spectra from the conformal bootstrap
Anshul Adve,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Solid-State Ionics for Energy Applications: Materials Development Through the Lens of Defect Chemistry
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mobile sand dunes - silent travelers of the desert
Michel Louge,
Emeritus Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, May 10th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum eigenvalue transformation from and beyond Hamiltonian simulation
Dong An,
University of Maryland, College Park,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Partial Post-Selection: Unveiling Measurement-Induced Transitions trajectory by trajectory
Alessandro Romito,
Lancaster University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Burn-resistant materials for high-performance reusable rocket engines
Zack Cordero,
Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 13th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Rethinking the Connections of Machine Learning and Control in the Era of Generative AI
Bin Hu,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A theoretical framework for fault-slip styles from aseismic creep to regular earthquakes
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
On False Positive Error
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changing Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns over the North Pacific
Clara Deser,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev,
Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
How "to see a world in a grain of sand"?
Rouslan Krechetnikov,
Professor,
Mathematical & Statistical Sciences,
University of Alberta,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
John Brewer,
Faculty Associate,
History Department,
Harvard University and Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture
Clean Electricity and the Path to Net Zero: Methods and Insights
Jesse D. Jenkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Jacob Robinson
Minimally invasive brain interfaces using magnetic materials
Friday, May 17th, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Games under the Tiered Deferred Acceptance Mechanism
Jiarui Xie,
Visiting Student,
UC Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling
Matthew Yao,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang
Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang,
Ph.D. Candidate (Med-EE Joint Track),
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Caltech MEMS Lab,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Overview of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M and Finding the Origin of Heat Streaks on Hypersonic Canonical Geometries
Ivett A. Leyva, Ph.D., P.E.,
Department Head, College of Engineering Excellence Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Electron Beam Driven Plasmas and the Quest for Precise Control in Materials Processing
Scott G. Walton, PhD,
Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
11:00am
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12:30pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Studying nonlinear dynamics using polynomial optimization
David Goluskin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Victoria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multiphase chemistry of atmospheric brown carbon
Christopher Hennigan,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An Enriched Category Theory of Language
Tai-Danae Bradley,
Sandbox AQ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From functional oxides to qubits, how electron ptychography is opening new avenues to characterize materials
James LeBeau,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Auctions, preferences, and wearable robots: the development of meaningful exoskeletons and robotic prostheses
Elliott J Rouse,
Associate Professor,
Neurobionics Lab; Depts. of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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