Seminars
April 2023
Ongoing
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4/2
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Monday, April 3rd, 2023
12:00am
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4/4
12:00am
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Tales of Random Projections
Kavita Ramanan,
Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor,
Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University,
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
9:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric Aerosol Formation from Anthropogenic Pollution
Mingyi Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
California Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online and In-Person Event
Alumni Fireside Chat - Engineer Goes Rogue
Kevin Noertker,
Thursday, April 6th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bulging and Poking of 2D Materials
Nanshu Lu,
Professor, Frank and Kay Reese Professor,
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, April 7th, 2023
10:00am
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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
Visible Light Photonics for Atomic and Quantum Applications
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Parametrically-driven nonlinear optical resonators and their networks for sensing and computing
Arkadev Roy,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Architecting Polymer Composites for Damage Tolerance and Durability
Pavana Prabhakar,
Charles G. Salmon Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Nanshu Lu
E-Tattoos and E-Skins Bridging Humans and Robots
Professor Nanshu Lu,
Frank and Kay Reese Professor, Departments of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering,
Texas Materials Institute-The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Two Recent Results in Convex and Nonconvex Optimization
Swati Padmanabhan,
University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
12:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
New approaches for turbulence research: Information-theoretic formulation of causality, modeling and control
Adrián Lozano-Durán,
Draper Assistant Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
10:30am
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11:30am
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric Aerosol Formation from Anthropogenic Pollution
Mingyi Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Response of Weyl fermions - topological protection, fragility and cooperation
Haim Beidenkopf,
PhD,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Thursday, April 13th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wake Dynamics of Oscillating Foils for Energy Harvesting
Jennifer Franck,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Microscopy Seminar
Application of gas field ion source and liquid metal alloy ion source-based focused ion beams
Gregor Hlawacek,
Head of the Ion Induced Nanostructures Group,
Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research,
Helmholtz—Zentrum Dresden—Rossendorf,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Dr. Jerome Mertz
Tools for fast, volumetric microscopy in tissue
Dr. Jerome C. Mertz, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Physics,
Boston University, College of Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
How and what do we know of a work of art?: The Strange Case of Giovanni Morelli and ‘Scientific Connoisseurship'
John Brewer,
Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Friday, April 14th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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11:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
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Information Discrepancy in Strategic Learning
Juba Ziani,
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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5:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superconductivity in materials with flat bands: Insights from the quantum geometry
Valerio Peri,
Moore Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Sarah Fletcher,
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow,
Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University,
Dipti D. Nayak,
Assistant Professor,
Division of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Xiao Su,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1:15pm
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2:30pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Scaling limit behavior of the dimer model
Marianna Russkikh,
Scott Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 17th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
ML-enabled model of underground fluid transport in the presence of chemical reactions
Mina Karimi,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Consensus-Based Interacting Particle Systems and Mean-field PDEs for Optimization and Sampling
Jose A. Carrillo,
Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Mean field theory in Inverse Problems: from Bayesian inference to overparameterization of networks
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Variability in Northern Hemisphere carbon exchange -- from diurnal to multi-decadal
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Online Event
Alumni Fireside Chat - Scientist Turned Venture Capitalist
Jason Holt,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Electrifying and Decarbonizing Chemical Synthesis
Online and In-Person Event
Karthish Manthiram,
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Porous Media Flow and Reactive Transport Phenomena: Accounting for the Underlying Structural Heterogeneity
Veronica L. Morales,
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Davis,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Information-preserving Dimensionality Reduction for High-dimensional Small-sample Data
Aditi Jha,
PhD Candidate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Christopher Contag
Advances in Imaging and Sensing are Redefining Health and Disease
Christopher H. Contag, Ph.D.,
James and Kathleen Cornelius Endowed Chair, Director, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics,
Michigan State University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, April 21st, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Behavioral Causal Inference
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University and University College London,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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