Seminars
November 2023
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
This Seminar has been POSTPONED
Michael Wara,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and exploration of new topological magnetic texture in frustrated magnets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Special Seminar
Can computers be trained as porous media experts?
Peyman Mostaghimi,
Professor of Minerals and Energy Resources,
Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering,
University of New South Wales,
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
10:00am
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EE Devices Seminar - Judith Su
Ultra-sensitive, selective, and label-free optical sensing for fundamental science, environmental monitoring, and translational medicine
Judith Su,
Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering and Optical Sciences,
University of Arizona,
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Large-scale aggregation of distributed energy resources: dynamic network access and competitive aggregations
Cong Chen,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Electrical Engineering,
Cornell University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Probing phonon transport across vacuum and across solid-state spins
Zhujing Xu,
postdoctoral fellow,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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EAS Trailblazers Symposium
Model Reduction for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems using State and Randomized Gradient Data
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Physics and Engineering of Extremely Moisture-Capturing Hydrogels for Freshwater Production and Energy Storage
Carlos D. Diaz-Marin,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MedE: EAS Trailblazers Symposium-Anqi Zhang
Minimally invasive neuroelectronics
Anqi Zhang, Ph.D.,
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow,
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Privacy Preserving Signal
Kai Hao Yang,
Assistant Professor,
School of Management,
Yale University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers
Yiran Zhang,
Nadj-Perge group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
A Hierarchical Perspective on Robotic Control
Noel Csomay-Shanklin,
Graduate Student,
Control and Dynamical Systems Computational and Mathematical Sciences Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) and a Policy Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Space Resource Utilization
Maya Nasr,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
Monday, November 6th, 2023
8:45am
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Closing the Loop in ML: Theory & Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Decision Systems
Lillian J. Ratliff,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Removing Development Subsidies Promote Adaptation? The Coastal Barrier Resources Act as a Natural Experiment
Hannah Druckenmiller,
Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Ways to See Real-Space Topological Textures and Their Order Parameters at the Atomic Scale
Yu-Tsun Shao,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Southern California,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Legal Best Practices: Forming and Funding Your Startup
Rick Friedman,
CEO,
Novus GC,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Wind Farm Modeling and Control
Dennice F. Gayme,
Professor and Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
Friday, November 10th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Stable Matching as Transportation
Fedor Sandomirskiy,
Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
Dominik Wild,
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Monday, November 13th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Sea Ice Discrete Element Modeling: Melt and Fracture of Floes and Sheets
Rigoberto Moncada Lopez,
Graduate Student, Civil Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Jihong Min
Online and In-Person Event
Innovations in wireless bioelectronics for precision medicine, from sustainable sweat sensing to ingestible gut monitoring
Jihong Min, Ph.D. Candidate,
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering,
California Instittute of Technology,
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
INTERANNUAL VARIATION OF PRODUCTIVITY IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE NORTHERN FORESTS: THE ROLE OF PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPES AND CLIMATE
Ke Liu,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Paul Wennberg,
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Regret Matching+: (In)Stability, Low Regret, and Last-Iterate Convergence in Games
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
10:00am
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
8:00am
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11:00am
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series
Identification and characterization of topological order without and with tensor networks
Norbert Schuch,
University of Vienna,
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the life and death of Antarctic Bottom Water
Henri Drake,
UCI,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Noise Spectroscopy – What Can Electronic Noise Tell Us about the Materials?
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
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
Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Injection-induced Seismicity
Maryam Alghannam,
George Housner Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser,
Assistant Director for Technology Transfer,
Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships,
Caltech,
John Peck,
Partner,
KPPB law firm,
Friday, November 17th, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar with Giuseppe Loianno
Re-thinking the Perception-Action Paradigm for Super Autonomous Robots
Giuseppe Loianno,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
Robin Kothari,
Google,
3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in quantum magnets probed by neutrons
Dr. Chengyun Hua,
R&D Associate, Materials Science & Technology Division,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Modeling Capability for Hypersonic Flow Physics
Tom Schwartzentruber,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
Monday, November 20th, 2023
12:00pm
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
8:00am
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11/24
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Monday, November 27th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The Summer Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology (CV4E) Progress Review
12:00pm
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
12:00pm
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Special Seminar with Prof. Tat-Jun Chin
Vision-based Spacecraft Pose Estimation
Tat-Jun Chin,
SmartSat CRC Professorial Chair,
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences,
The University of Adelaide,