Seminars
October 2024
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
11:00am
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Water Safety - Challenging Current Standards with New Insights into Aggregate-Bound Bacteria and Pathogens
Daniel Angelscu and Joyce Wong,
Fluidion Water Intelligence,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybrid Materials via Vapor Phase Infiltration: Designing Physicochemical Structure to Alter Chemical, Thermophysical, & Photoelectronic Properties
Mark Losego,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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David G. Goodwin Memorial Lecture
Protonics for Sustainable Energy Technologies
Sossina M. Haile,
Walter P. Murphy Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng
Seeing the unseen using molecular fingerprints
Ji-Xin Cheng,
Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics,
Boston University Photonics Center,
Friday, October 4th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits
Roland Farrell,
Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Planetary Defense at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Veronika Korneyeva,
Postdoctoral researcher and John S. Foster Jr. Fellow,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Dae-Hyeong Kim
Soft Materials and Bioelectronic Devices for Cardiovascular Diseases
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 5th, 2024
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 6th, 2024
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2024
8:15am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
The role of policy and governance in shaping biotechnology for sustainability: A case study of U.S. regulations governing engineered microbes for environmental release
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture
Two Engineers and a Whiteboard: Reimagining Clean Energy Systems
Pedro Pizarro,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International,
David Welch,
Co-Founder, NosTerra,
- Public Event
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
NASA's New Orbital Imaging Spectrometers
David Thompson,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Non-trivial topology in the centrosymmetric square net Eu-based compounds
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Interleaved Physics-Based Deep-Learning Framework as a New Cycle Jumping Approach for Microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Growth Simulations
Ashley Spear,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Utah,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Friday, October 11th, 2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Nonparametric Estimation of Selection Models
Fan Wu,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exploring scientific frontiers in quantum error correction with reconfigurable atom arrays
Dolev Bluvstein,
Harvard University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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10/12
5:00pm
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Visual Culture Symposium
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Plugged In: Art and Electric Light
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in a collisional multi-fluid plasma
Vincent Wheatley,
Co-Director of the Centre for Hypersonics,
University of Queensland,
Monday, October 14th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk with Cubist
Q&A Panel with Point72/Cubist Systematic Strategies
- Internal Event
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Gullible networks and the mathematics of adversarial attacks
Tim Roith,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Computational Imaging Group,
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Pseudorandom unitaries, t-designs, and the incompressibility of random circuits
Tony Metger,
Graduate Student,
ETH Zurich,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ice, Water & Climate: Radar Remote Sensing of Meltwater Dynamics on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Riley Culberg,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A categorical approach to Lyapunov stability
Joseph Moeller,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering Department, AMBER Lab,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bioinspired surfaces – from micropatterning and machine learning to sustainable robotics
Eduard Arzt,
Visiting Distinguished Faculty,
Material Science and Engineering,
UC San Diego, Senior Professor for New Materials at Saarland University,
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A brief history of development of elastocaloric cooling
Ichiro Takeuchi,
Interim Chair and Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Maryland,
Friday, October 18th, 2024
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Dialogues across Difference: Kick-Off Event
Who is this "we?" Dialogue and community action in polarized times
Lara Schwartz,
Founding Director of the Project on Civic Dialogue,
School of Public Affairs,
American University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Stability and loop models from decohering non-Abelian topological order
Pablo Sala,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Measuring Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions with High Spatial Resolution
Thomas Juliano,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Harvesting Insights from Advanced Microscope Acquisitions: Techniques and Applications
Mingshu Liang,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 19th, 2024
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Immobilization of Heavy Metals from Solution by Novel Biogenic Manganese Oxides
Hannah Way,
Grad Student,
Geobiology,
Caltech,
Jared Leadbetter,
Professor of Environmental Microbiology,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
From Entropy to Artistry: on Thermodynamics and Generative AI
Stephan Mandt,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Statistics,
University of California, Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Storm-Resolving Models: Not just more of the same
David Randall,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
An entropic view of machine learning
Akhil Premkumar,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Materials Research to Enable Scalable Decarbonization Technologies
Yet-Ming Chiang,
Kyocera Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A data-driven approach to modeling and control of wound state progression and healing outcomes
Marcella Gomez,
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Associate Dean for DEI in Baskin Engineering,
Applied Mathematics,
UC Santa Cruz,