Seminars
May 2022
Ongoing
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Monday, May 2nd, 2022
12:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Optimization for Over-Parameterized Systems and Transition to Linearity in Deep Learning
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Processes driving ice-sheet change: A microstructural view
Meghana Ranganathan,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Online Event
Managing the Limits of Visualization
James Elkins,
E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism,
School of the Art Institute, Chicago,
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Laurel Kroo,
P.h.D. candidate,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Laurel Kroo,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 6th, 2022
10:00am
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12:30pm
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Ethical Orientations for Collegiality, Mentoring, and Teaching
Online Event
Dr. Koritha Mitchell,
Professional development expert who centers equity and justice,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum computation in a hybrid array of molecules and Rydberg atoms
Chi Zhang,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hutzler Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Pandemic vs Pingdemic: Network Data Assimilation for Epidemic Tracking and Control
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 9th, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:01am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantinuum and TKET
Mark Jackson,
Senior Quantum Evangelist,
Quantinuum,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
A Nonparametric Probabilistic Method for Physics-Based Data-Driven Modeling, Uncertainty Quantification, and Digital Twinning
Charbel Farhat,
Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures & Chairman of the,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
9:00am
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11:00am
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Caltech's Energy Transition
John Onderdonk,
Interim Associate Vice President for Facilities,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: What Entanglement Can Tell Us About Our World
Online and In-Person Event
Scott K. Cushing,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Poroelastic Spherical Indentation for Material Characterization
Haiying Huang,
Associate Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Keynote
"My Journey to Democratizing Healthcare"
Vicky Demas,
CEO of Tesseract,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Demetrios Christodoulides
Optical thermodynamics of nonlinear highly multimode systems
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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MedE Ph.D. Defense, Vincenzo Costanza
Online and In-Person Event
Thermally Responsive Polymers for Wearable Calorimeters
Vincenzo Costanza,
Medical Engineering PhD Student,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Progressive, Extrapolative Machine Learning for Turbulence Modeling
Xiang Yang,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 16th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Shanice Webster,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biology,
Duke University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ravinder Dahiya
Online and In-Person Event
High-Performance Printed Electronics for Robots and Interactive Systems
Professor Ravinder Dahiya, FIEEE, FRSE, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and EPSRC Research Fellow,
Electronics and Nanoengineering,
James Watt School of Engineering,
University of Glasgow, UK,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Eric Ambrose,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series
Online Event
Adversarial Machine Learning and Instrumental Variables for Flexible Causal Modeling
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta,
research staff scientist,
IBM,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
8:00am
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Optimization of Distribution Power Networks: From Single-Phase to Multi-Phase
Fengyu Zhou,
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
Acceleration of tropical cyclone development by cloud-radiative feedbacks
Allison Wing,
Florida State University,
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
8:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems
Andrew Singletary,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Concentration enrichment, separation, and ion exchange in nanoliter-scale water-in-oil droplets
Robbyn K. Anand,
Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Iowa State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Srirang Manohar
Online Event
A photoacoustic-ultrasound transmission breast tomography system: system overview and first imaging results
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Frances Arnold,
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center,
Friday, May 20th, 2022
10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Narrow transparency and collective emission in an ensemble of rare-earth ions coupled to a nanophotonic cavity
Mi Lei,
Graduate Student, Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Leveraging Common Structure for Prior-Free Image Reconstruction
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn,
Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cilia Powered Pumps
Eva Kanso,
Professor and Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The Mathematics of Privacy and Synthetic Data
Roman Vershynin,
Professor of Mathematics / Associate Director,
Department of Mathematics / Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of California Irvine,
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 23rd, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar
"PiRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Genome Defense and in Development"
Katalin (Kata) Fejes-Toth,
Research Professor,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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