Seminars
May 2025
Ongoing
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5/6
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Thursday, May 1st, 2025
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act and Compute
Marc Miskin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series: Nobel Laureate, Professor Eric Betzig
Exploring the Universe Inside Ourselves
Professor Eric Betzig,
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Extracting the topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement
Yarden Sheffer,
Weizmann Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
Igor Mezić,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Monday, May 5th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Dynamic Control of Radiative Thermal Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KNI Special Seminar with Dr. Christian Haffner
Christian Haffner,
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
imec,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How Will Severe Thunderstorms Respond to Climate Change?
Kerry Emanuel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Diffusionless Transformations in Ceramics: Can Brittle Materials Survive Martensitic Transitions?
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 8th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Advances in Eulerian Modeling: Compaction, Multiphase Flow, and Plasticity
Nicolas Favrie,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Aix-Marseille University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, May 9th, 2025
8:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Flexible Phased Arrays: Challenges & Opportunities
Oren Mizrahi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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3:30pm
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Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Daniel Dauhajre,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Ocean Dynamics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Mark Jason Lara,
Assistant Professor,
Plant Biology and Geography and Geographic Information Sciences,
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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CMS Seminar-Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
Shaping AI for the Public Good via the Berkeley Lab Model
David Patterson,
Computer Scientist UC Berkeley and Google,
Andy Konwinski,
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks, and Perplexity,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Stochastic estimation and reinforcement learning control of disturbed aerodynamic flows
Jeff Eldredge,
Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Monday, May 12th, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Mechanical Characterization of Irregular Architected Two-Phase Materials
Chelsea Fox,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Signal Processing for Line Spectra: New Sensor Arrays, Algorithms, and Theoretical Results
Pranav Kulkarni,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
9:30am
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10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Methods for Learning Mechanics: Inverse Problems, Constitutive Modeling, and Design
Aakila Rajan,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
A mysterious appearance of quantum probability in projective geometry
Jonathan Beardsley,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Toward accurate and scalable site characterization with multi-scale, multi-modal observations
Harry Lee,
University of Hawai‘i,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Perception-Rich Robot Autonomy with 3D World Models"
Mac Schwager,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Low Noise at Low Cost for Large Radio Astronomy Arrays
Kiran Shila,
Graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Prof. Bozhi Tian
Physical Biology Strategies for Translational Bioelectrical Interfaces
Friday, May 16th, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
Ruslan Shaydulin,
JPMorganChase,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Yong Zhang
Wearable/implantable devices for light-based therapy
Professor Yong Zhang,
Chair Professor & Head Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Global STEM Professor Fellow of SAEng, EASA, IEEE, AIMBE & RSC Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Harnessing unconventional column and shell buckling for functional architected materials
Lihua Jin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Full-Field Quantitative Visualization of Shock-Driven Pore Collapse in Solids: Mechanics of Deformation, Failure, and Interaction
Barry Lawlor,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
TBA
Jinghao Cao,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
A Glimpse into AI + Science at Google DeepMind: RL for Fusion & AlphaGeometry2
Yuri Chervonyi,
Google DeepMind,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Techniques for Molecular Detection: From Mid‑Infrared Spectrometers to Nanopore Devices
Changsoon Choi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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LCSSP Panel - Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
Southern California Wildfires & Water Quality: Science Meets Policy
- Public Event
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum lightning from non-Abelian group actions
John Bostanci,
Yuen Group,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Reformulations of Furstenberg's x2x3 conjecture
Jane Panangaden,
Mathematics Field Group,
Pitzer College,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Ocean's Role in Shaping Small Fronts
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Catlin Whalen,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
8:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Digital twin modeling of blood flow
Shawn Shadden,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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