Seminars
February 2023
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical methods for the oxidation of pollutants in aqueous matrices
Davide Clematis,
University of Genoa,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Understanding the Role of Network Structure in Controlling Complex Networks
Jorge Cortes,
Professor, Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in High Performance Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE
Kearra Gopee,
Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Paul Beard
Medical photoacoustic imaging using optical ultrasound detection: from light to sound…and back
Professor Paul Beard,
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering,
University College London,
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
8:00am
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2/9
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum error correction and computation with two-qubit measurements
Arpit Dua,
UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral scholar,
Xie Chen Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Measurement of interatomic forces that can evade detection and hydrodynamic boundary conditions on single nanoparticles
4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Konstantin Vodopyanov, CREOL, University of Central Florida
Precision midinfrared-to-THz frequency combs and their spectroscopic applications
Konstantin Vodopyanov,
21st Century Scholar Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics and Physics,
CREOL,
University of Central Florida,
Monday, February 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Circumneutral Electrosynthesis of Ferrate(IV/V/VI) Oxidants for Decentralized Water Treatment Applications
Yi (Sam) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
HEI Lecture 1: Dr. Erik M Conway
Dr. Erik M. Conway,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Historian,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Steering electrons with light fields: from ultrafast electronics to quantum sensing
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Graphical Designs: Structure, Complexity and Applications
Rekha R. Thomas,
Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes from the NTRU cryptosystem
Jonathan Conrad,
Free University, Berlin,
12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Towards Soft Intelligent Materials: Reconfigurable Single-Material Soft Microstructures
Shucong Li,
Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Salt Fat Acid Meet: Cooking Up an Understanding of Organic Aerosol Heterogeneous Reactions, Phase, and Continuing Chemistry in Individual Particles
Andrew Ault,
University of Michigan,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Galactic Paleontology with JWST: Finding Living Fossils in the Ancient Universe
Online and In-Person Event
Chuck Steidel (PhD '90),
Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Department of Astronomy,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
8:45am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Structured Instabilities in Excited Granular Materials
Christopher Boyce,
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yu Sun
Medical Robotics for Cell Surgery
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Friday, February 10th, 2023
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Monday, February 13th, 2023
9:00am
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Special ACM Seminar
Towards the Ultimate Solver(s) for Wave Equations in the Time Domain
Thomas Hagstrom,
Professor of Mathematics,
Center for Research Computing,
Southern Methodist University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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History, Ethics, and Identity Seminar Series
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community
Dr. Edray Goins,
Professor,
Mathematics and Statistics,
Pomona College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Synthesis for robotics - what can go wrong?
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand,
Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang,
Product Lead,
DALL·E,
- Public Event
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Lower bounding the description complexity of quantum states
Chinmay Nirkhe,
IBM Quantum,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Atomic-Scale Design at the 2D/3D Interface
Kate Reidy,
PhD candidate,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title: TBD
Eviatar Bach,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
California Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Properties Using an Energy-based Poromechanics Model
Dr. Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ehrenfest's theorem beyond the Ehrenfest time: non-singular classical limit for general open systems
Jess Riedel,
NTT Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Valuing Technology Workshop
Hanna Breunig,
Deputy-Head of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Friday, February 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measuring Arbitrary Physical Properties in Analog Quantum Simulation
Minh Tran,
MIT/IBM,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Tale of two topics: Bubbles for imaging, therapeutics and tissue engineering and A pair of drops in a viscoelastic medium
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, February 20th, 2023
12:00am
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2/21
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics and Materials Science Special Seminar
Moiré Materials and their New Degrees of Freedom
Yuan Cao,
PhD,
Harvard University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
Nicolas Delfosse,
Microsoft Quantum,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan,
Winter 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Leveraging "partial" smoothness for faster convergence in nonsmooth optimization
Damek Davis,
Associate Professor,
Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Moist convection drives an upscale energy transfer at Jovian high latitudes
Lia Siegelman,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Nanoconfined fluids in low-dimensional solid state systems: recent advances & perspective
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Multiphysics Simulations Using Phase-Field Modeling
Hector Gomez,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
Friday, February 24th, 2023
10:00am
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