Past Seminars

Friday June 2, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Toward real-time simulation of cardiorespiratory flows
Speaker: Mahdi Esmaily Moghadam, Cornell University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday June 2, 2023 12:00 PM
Student-led Lunar Transportation Live Demonstration and Poster Session
Location: Beckman Mall
Thursday June 1, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Predicting Transport, Mixing, and Reaction in Fractured Porous Media Across Scales
Speaker: Peter Kang, University of Minnesota
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday May 26, 2023 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Margin Maximization in Attention Mechanism
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 26, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Dynamics and performance of wind-energy systems in unsteady flow conditions
Speaker: Nathaniel Wei, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday May 25, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Flow, transport, and mixing limited processes in confined & heterogeneous media
Speaker: Pietro De Anna, University of Lausanne (UNIL)
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday May 24, 2023 7:30 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Speaker: Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83)
Location: Online and In-Person Event
Friday May 19, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
TBA
Speaker: Chris Roh, Cornell University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 19, 2023 9:00 AM
Fracture Behavior of Magnesium: Mechanisms and Mechanics
Speaker: R. Narasimhan
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday May 18, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Enabling Functional Outcomes by Programming the Responsivity of Liquid Crystalline Polymer
Speaker: Tim White, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday May 17, 2023 4:00 PM
Rethinking Evaporation: Thermal and Optical Evaporation from Pure Water and Hydrogels
Speaker: Gang Chen
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Friday May 12, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Interactions of shock waves and turbulence through numerical simulations
Speaker: Ivan Bermejo-Moreno, University of Southern California
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday May 11, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning, Mechanics, and Metallurgy
Speaker: Allison M. Beese, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday May 10, 2023 7:30 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture: Making Wearable Materials Smarter
Speaker: Chiara Daraio
Location: Online and In-Person Event
Friday May 5, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Revolutionizing Hypersonic Flow Simulation: Physics-Aware Coarse Graining and Maximum Entropy Principles for Next-Generation Aerothermal Modeling
Speaker: Marco Panesi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday April 28, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Leveraging Ambient Radio Noise for Passive Radar Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial and Space Environment
Speaker: Sean Peters, Naval Postgraduate School
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 27, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Composite Nanolattices and Colloidal Self-Assembly Enabled by 3D Nanoprinting
Speaker: Wendy Gu, Stanford University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday April 25, 2023 4:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
*CANCELLED* Revisiting Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics
Speaker: Angkur Shaikeea, University of Cambridge
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday April 25, 2023 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Exoskeleton-Based Training For Novel Motor Skill Acquisition
Speaker: Keya Ghonasgi, University of Texas, Austin
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday April 24, 2023 11:00 AM
Conversations on Artificial Intelligence
Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning for Conservation
Location: Online Event
Friday April 21, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Flume Studies of Gaps, Plumes, and Particles in a Canopy Mixing Layer: Application to Wildfire Spread
Speaker: Hayoon Chung, Stanford University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 20, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Information-preserving Dimensionality Reduction for High-dimensional Small-sample Data
Speaker: Aditi Jha, Princeton
Location: Moore B270
Thursday April 20, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Porous Media Flow and Reactive Transport Phenomena: Accounting for the Underlying Structural Heterogeneity
Speaker: Veronica L. Morales, University of California, Davis
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday April 13, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Wake Dynamics of Oscillating Foils for Energy Harvesting
Speaker: Jennifer Franck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday April 11, 2023 4:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
New approaches for turbulence research: Information-theoretic formulation of causality, modeling and control
Speaker: Adrián Lozano-Durán, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday April 10, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Two Recent Results in Convex and Nonconvex Optimization
Speaker: Swati Padmanabhan, University of Washington, Seattle
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 7, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Architecting Polymer Composites for Damage Tolerance and Durability
Speaker: Pavana Prabhakar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday April 7, 2023 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Parametrically-driven nonlinear optical resonators and their networks for sensing and computing
Speaker: Arkadev Roy, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B270
Thursday April 6, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Bulging and Poking of 2D Materials
Speaker: Nanshu Lu, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday March 28, 2023 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Using Speckle Dynamics to Measure Blood Flow and Tissue Dynamics
Speaker: David Boas, Boston University
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday March 28, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Building better, for longer, with less: "holistic" lessons learned from a lustrum long research on Ultra-High Performance Concrete @Politecnico-DICA
Speaker: Liberato Ferrara, Politecnico di Milano
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday March 21, 2023 11:00 AM
Guest talk by Marty Nemko on 15 Ideas for a Good Career and Life
Location: Chen 100
Wednesday March 15, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Using Models to Inform Atmospherically Relevant Laboratory Measurements of Aerosol Formation Reactions
Speaker: Hannah Kenagy, MIT
Location: South Mudd 365
Friday March 10, 2023 11:00 AM
Conversations on Artificial Intelligence
Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Personalized Medicine
Location: Online Event
Thursday March 9, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Soft Materials Mechanics for Health and Sustainability
Speaker: Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday March 6, 2023 1:00 PM
Contextualizing Engineering & Applied Science: History Ethics, and Identity in STEM Seminar Series and Discussion Groups
Scientific Virtue: Reflections on "Good" Science and "Good" Scientists
Speaker: Dr. Clair Morrissey, Occidental College
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday March 3, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Tracing the New Arctic
Speaker: Monica Martinez Wilhelmus, Brown University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday March 2, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Liquid Breakup at Supercritical Conditions: Toward Understanding Mixing and Combustion at Extreme Conditions
Speaker: Dorrin Jarrahbashi, Texas A&M University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday March 1, 2023 7:30 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture: Enigma of the Heart
Speaker: Morteza (Mory) Gharib (PhD '83)
Location: Online and In-Person Event
Friday February 24, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Advances in non-modal stability theory for transitional and turbulent flows
Speaker: Aaron Towne, University of Michigan
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 24, 2023 10:00 AM
Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs
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Thursday February 23, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multiphysics Simulations Using Phase-Field Modeling
Speaker: Hector Gomez, Purdue University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday February 17, 2023 5:00 PM
Black History Month Special Social Event
Location: Beckman Institute
Friday February 17, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
A Tale of two topics: Bubbles for imaging, therapeutics and tissue engineering and A pair of drops in a viscoelastic medium
Speaker: Kausik Sarkar, George Washington University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday February 16, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Bayesian Inference of Poroelastic Properties Using an Energy-based Poromechanics Model
Speaker: Dr. Mina Karimi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday February 16, 2023 10:00 AM
Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs
Location:
Wednesday February 15, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-Scale Design at the 2D/3D Interface
Speaker: Kate Reidy, MIT
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Monday February 13, 2023 1:00 PM
Contextualizing Engineering & Applied Science: History Ethics, and Identity in STEM Seminar Series and Discussion Groups
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community
Speaker: Dr. Edray Goins, Pomona College
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 10, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
High-temperature carbon fibers ablation in 4D
Speaker: Francesco Panerai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday February 9, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Structured Instabilities in Excited Granular Materials
Speaker: Christopher Boyce, Columbia University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Towards Soft Intelligent Materials: Reconfigurable Single-Material Soft Microstructures
Speaker: Shucong Li, MIT
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Monday February 6, 2023 1:00 PM
Contextualizing Engineering & Applied Science: History Ethics, and Identity in STEM Seminar Series and Discussion Groups
HEI Lecture 1: Dr. Erik M Conway
Speaker: Dr. Erik M. Conway
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 3, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Measurement of interatomic forces that can evade detection and hydrodynamic boundary conditions on single nanoparticles
Speaker: John Sader, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday February 2, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Understanding the Role of Network Structure in Controlling Complex Networks
Speaker: Jorge Cortes, University of California, San Diego
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday January 27, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Developing imaging technologies to search for, discover, and understand life in the deep sea
Speaker: Kakani Katija, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday January 26, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday January 20, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Magnetoelectric Materials for Wireless Neuromodulation and Bioelectronic Medicine
Speaker: Josh Chen, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday January 20, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Vortex rings in compressible interfacial flows relevant to inertial confinement fusion and supernovae
Speaker: Michael Wadas, University of Michigan
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday January 19, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Near-Wake Dynamics of Cross-Flow Turbine Arrays
Speaker: Isabel Scherl, California Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday January 17, 2023 4:30 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023 Social Event
Location: Beckman Institute
Friday January 13, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Optimal Design for Emerging Techologies in Materials, Mechanics, and Manufacturing
Speaker: Andrew Akerson, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday January 13, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Wave propagation in periodic acoustic metamaterials: from 1D to 3D
Speaker: Gunho Kim, Caltech
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday January 12, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Recent Advances in Data-Driven Computational Mechanics
Speaker: Anna Gorgogianni, California Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday January 6, 2023 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Multifunctional Origami Robots
Speaker: Renee Zhao, Stanford University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday January 5, 2023 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Dynamics of Acoustically Coupled Combustion Instabilities
Speaker: Ann Karagozian, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday December 15, 2022 4:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Optimal receptivity and the generalization of the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) Equations to complex high-speed boundary layers and jets
Speaker: Omar Kamal, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday December 15, 2022 9:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Studies on Off-Nominal Rotor Aerodynamics for eVTOL Aircraft
Speaker: Ellande Tang, California Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday December 8, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Adventures in Applied Fluid Mechanics
Speaker: Sheldon Green, University of British Columbia
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday December 2, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Detonations for Propulsion: Insights, Challenges, and a Path Forward
Speaker: Carson Slabaugh, Purdue University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday December 2, 2022 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Model-Based Lower-Limb Powered Prosthesis Control: Developing and Realizing Nonlinear Subsystem Control Methods for Generalizable Prosthesis Control
Speaker: Rachel Gehlhar, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday December 1, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Simulating solids like fluids: A fully Eulerian approach to fluid-structure interaction
Speaker: Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday November 18, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Roadmapping the Future of Technology: In Space and on Earth
Speaker: Olivier de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday November 17, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Toward a Model-Based Qualification Paradigm for Metal Additive Manufacturing
Speaker: Albert To, University of Pittsburgh
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday November 15, 2022 12:00 PM
Caltech Bioscience Industry Day 2022
Location: Chen Breezeway
Saturday November 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Shaking in Our Seats: Earthquake Science on the Big Screen
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Friday November 11, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Recent Progress in Aeronautical Sciences: Vibrational Stabilization in Insect Flight & a Variational Theory of Aerodynamics
Speaker: Haithem Taha, University of California, Irvine
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday November 10, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling Ductile and Brittle Fracture of Polycrystals
Speaker: Jean Michel Scherer, California Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday November 4, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Granular Flows: Photoelastic Avalanches & Bedform Dynamics
Speaker: Nathalie Vriend, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 28, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Predictive Unsteady Simulations of High-Speed Turbulent Flows
Speaker: Lian Duan, The Ohio State University
Location:
Thursday October 27, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Statistical Mechanics of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media
Speaker: Alex Hansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 21, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Mixing, Morphology, and Melting in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence
Speaker: Blair A. Johnson, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday October 20, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reaction Fronts in Porous Media
Speaker: Marc A. Hesse, Jackson School of Geological Sciences and the Oden Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday October 18, 2022 11:00 AM
Conversations on Artificial Intelligence
Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: Combating Misinformation Online
Location: Online Event
Friday October 14, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Reduced Order Modeling and Inverse Design of Flexible Structures by Machine Learning
Speaker: M. Khalid Jawed, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday October 13, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Fragmentation in Turbulent Multiphase Flows
Speaker: Rui Ni, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 7, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Microplastics at the ocean surface: waves, turbulence, and particles
Speaker: Michelle DiBenedetto, University of Washington
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday October 6, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Thermo-Mechanics of Granular Materials: Experiments and Simulations
Speaker: Alessandro Rotta Loria, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday September 30, 2022 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Number Representation for Deep Learning
Speaker: William L. Dally
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday September 30, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Passive flow control using bio-inspired micro-scale surface structures
Speaker: Shan Zhong, University of Manchester
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday September 29, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Tailoring Molecular Topology to Control the Mechanical Properties of Polymeric and Nanoparticle Networks
Speaker: Sinan Keten, Northwestern University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday September 28, 2022 4:00 PM
Technology Research & Development: Boeing and Caltech
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday August 9, 2022 4:00 PM
GALCIT Special Seminar
Making Hydrogen Aviation a Reality
Speaker: Paul Eremenko
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday July 7, 2022 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Analysis of Intertwined and Frictional Micro-architected Materials
Speaker: Widianto P. Moestopo, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday June 14, 2022 10:00 AM
How do we cut U.S. GWG emissions in half in 10 years?
Speaker: Jerry Brown
Speaker: Harry Atwater, Caltech
Speaker: and many others
Location: Online Event
Friday May 27, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Poroviscoelasticity and fracture in gelatin-based hydrogels
Speaker: Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 27, 2022 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Foundations and applications of single-cell RNA sequencing
Speaker: Ali (Sina) Booeshaghi, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday May 26, 2022 9:00 AM
General Biology Seminar Series
"Physics of Living Matter: From Molecule to Embryo"
Speaker: Sebastian Streichan, University of California - Santa Barbara
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Wednesday May 25, 2022 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Rapid Breast Cancer Pathology Tissue Evaluation Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Speaker: Diana Mojahed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday May 23, 2022 9:00 AM
General Biology Seminar Series
"PiRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Genome Defense and in Development"
Speaker: Katalin (Kata) Fejes-Toth, Caltech
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday May 20, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Cilia Powered Pumps
Speaker: Eva Kanso, University of Southern California
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday May 19, 2022 4:00 PM
Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Speaker: Frances Arnold
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Thursday May 19, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Concentration enrichment, separation, and ion exchange in nanoliter-scale water-in-oil droplets
Speaker: Robbyn K. Anand, Iowa State University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday May 19, 2022 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems
Speaker: Andrew Singletary, Caltech
Location: Gates Annex B122
Tuesday May 17, 2022 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Speaker: Eric Ambrose, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday May 16, 2022 9:00 AM
General Biology Seminar Series
"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Speaker: Shanice Webster, Duke University
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday May 13, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Progressive, Extrapolative Machine Learning for Turbulence Modeling
Speaker: Xiang Yang, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday May 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Poster Session
Location: Chen Breezeway
Thursday May 12, 2022 12:00 PM
General Biology Seminar Series
"My Journey to Democratizing Healthcare"
Speaker: Vicky Demas
Location: Chen 100
Thursday May 12, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Poroelastic Spherical Indentation for Material Characterization
Speaker: Haiying Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday May 6, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Neural-Fly enables rapid learning for agile flight in strong winds
Speaker: Michael O'Connell
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 6, 2022 10:00 AM
HSS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Series
Ethical Orientations for Collegiality, Mentoring, and Teaching
Speaker: Dr. Koritha Mitchell
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 5, 2022 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Speaker: Laurel Kroo, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 5, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Adaptive and Sensory Machines: From Active Foam to Swimming Rheometers
Speaker: Laurel Kroo, Stanford University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday April 29, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Droplet-laden isotropic turbulence: from DNS to MANN-LES
Speaker: Antonino Ferrante, University of Washington, Seattle
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 28, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Speaker: Robert C. Viesca, Tufts University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday April 26, 2022 9:00 AM
General Biology Seminar Series
New Directions in Biology and Biological Engineering Symposium
Speaker: Caroline Albertin, Marine Biological Laboratory
Speaker: Shawn Davidson, Princeton University
Location: Beckman Institute
Friday April 22, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Perspectives on Contraction Theory and Neural Networks
Speaker: Francesco Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 21, 2022 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Caltech Young Investigators Forum
Speaker:
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 21, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Speaker: Benzhong (Robin) Zhao, McMaster University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday April 15, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Physics-Inspired Coarsening for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows
Speaker: Perry Johnson, University of California, Irvine
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 14, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Speaker: Shuman Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday April 11, 2022 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Dynamics of Predictions and Decision-Making
Speaker: Tijana Zrnic, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Monday April 11, 2022 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Dynamics of Predictions and Decision-Making
Speaker: Tijana Zrnic, UC Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Friday April 8, 2022 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Stable Self-organization Arises for Schooling Swimmers Through Hydrodynamic Interactions
Speaker: Melike Kurt, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 7, 2022 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Learning Under Requirements
Speaker: Luiz Chamon, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 7, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Structural Computing: Leveraging Mechanics for Information Processing
Speaker: Phil R. Buskohl, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday March 31, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The DARPA Grand Challenges: A Caltech Perspective
Speaker: Prof. Joel W. Burdick, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday March 9, 2022 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Integrating Machine Learning With Scientific Spatial and Temporal Modeling
Speaker: Aditi Krishnapriyan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday March 4, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition over Blunt Cones
Speaker: Pedro Paredes, NASA Langley Research Center
Location: Online Event
Thursday March 3, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanistic Insights into Crystalline Interfaces via Thermal Fluctuations
Speaker: Yashashree Kulkarni, University of Houston
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday February 25, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Autonomous Miniaturized Distributed Space Systems
Speaker: Simone D'Amico, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 24, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Morphing Materials and Multifunctional Structures: From Mechanics to Applications
Speaker: Xueju "Sophie" Wang, University of Connecticut (UConn)
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday February 18, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: From Launch to Landing
Speaker: Swati Mohan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 17, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins
Speaker: Pilar Ariza, University of Seville (Spain)
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday February 11, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Shallow cumulus convection large-eddy simulations and Galilean invariance
Speaker: Georgios Matheou, University of Connecticut
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 10, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Scaling of Triggered Seismicity and Permeability Evolution in the Subsurface – A Key Need in the Energy Transition
Speaker: Derek Elsworth, Penn State
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday February 9, 2022 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Speaker: Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83), Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday February 4, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Are mesoscale effects needed to predict condensed-phase explosive performance?
Speaker: Scott Jackson, Texas A&M University
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 3, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multifunctional Bioinspired Composites
Speaker: Tommaso Magrini, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday February 2, 2022 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Decarbonizing Ammonia Using Plasma Catalysis and Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate in Wastewaters
Speaker: Lea Winter, Yale University
Location: Online Event
Friday January 28, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Highly Flexible Plates Interacting with a Free Surface: Passive Reconfiguration
Speaker: Christine Gilbert, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 27, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Elastic wave control through topology and curvature
Speaker: Massimo Ruzzene, University of Colorado at Boulder
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday January 21, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Ultra Lighweight shape Adaptable Composites for Aerospace and Biomedical Applications
Speaker: Paolo Ermanni, ETH Zurich
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 20, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Nonlinear Dynamics of Soft Filaments
Speaker: Neda Maghsoodi, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday January 14, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Collective particle settling with implications for microplastic transport in estuaries
Speaker: Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 13, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
New experimental approaches for measuring and controlling fluid flows
Speaker: Matt Fu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 7, 2022 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Embodied Intelligence in Robofish
Speaker: Daniel Quinn, University of Virginia
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 6, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
How colloidal physics instantiate life in biological cells
Speaker: Roseanna N. Zia, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 7, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Slip Patterns on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces
Speaker: Kavya Sudhir, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday December 3, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Fracture of 2D Materials – In situ Experiments and ML Parameterized Force Fields
Speaker: Horacio D. Espinosa, Northwestern University
Location: Online Event