Past Seminars

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
Monday February 28, 2022 1:00 PM
Contextualizing Engineering & Applied Science: History Ethics, and Identity in STEM Seminar Series and Discussion Groups
The Making of a Global GALCIT: H. S. Tsien and Other Chinese American Scientists at Caltech
Speaker: Dr. Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Location: Online Event
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
Thursday December 2, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Machine learning in solid mechanics: improving modeling and design
Speaker: Miguel Bessa, Delft University of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday November 19, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Microstructural effects during fatigue and fracture of additively manufactured metals
Speaker: John Lambros, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 18, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches to characterize avalanches and dunes across scales
Speaker: Nathalie Vriend, University of Cambridge
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday November 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Bubble dynamics in a Hele-Shaw cell
Speaker: Anne Juel, University of Manchester
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 11, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Micro-continuum approach for the multi-scale modeling of coupled processes in the subsurface
Speaker: Cyprien Soulaine, Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday November 9, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Bioscience Industry Day
Location: Chen Breezeway
Friday November 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Classical fluid mechanics confronts modern research questions: Virus transport, a novel similarity solution, and an N-body problem
Speaker: Howard Stone, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 4, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Data-driven mechanics – the challenge to model inelastic material behaviour and structures
Speaker: Stefanie Reese, RWTH Aachen University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 29, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Fracture Mechanics of Coilable Ultra-thin Composite Shell Structures
Speaker: Armanj Hasanyan
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 28, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Cellular NeuroMechanics – Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury and the mysterious Havana Syndrome
Speaker: Christian Franck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 22, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Vortex-Wave Interaction Theory: Exact Coherent Structures & Roughness
Speaker: Philip Hall, Monash University
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 21, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Acoustically Levitated Granular Matter
Speaker: Heinrich M. Jaeger, The University of Chicago
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 15, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Iain D. Boyd
Speaker: Iain D. Boyd, University of Colorado – Boulder
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 14, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Earthquake sequence simulations with fault zone fluid flow, pore pressure evolution, and viscoelasticity
Speaker: Eric Dunham, Stanford
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 8, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Speaker: Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, University of Houston
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 7, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Mechanics of Slow Slip
Speaker: Kyungjae Im, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 1, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Sergio Pellegrino
Speaker: Sergio Pellegrino, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 29, 2021 1:00 PM
"Leading in a New Era of Innovation"
Speaker: Naveed Hussain, Boeing Research & Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday September 13, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Speaker: John Harmon, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 17, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Programming Shape-Morphing Structured Media
Speaker: Connor McMahan, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 17, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities in the Flow Over a Spinning Disk at Angle of Attack
Speaker: Marcus Lee, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday July 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Industry Job Talks
Location: Online Event
Wednesday July 21, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Academic Job Talks
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 29, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Parameterization of Basin Effects for Engineering Design Applications
Speaker: Peyman Ayoubi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Applications of Machine Learning to Finite Volume Methods
Speaker: Ben Stevens, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday June 4, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
RUN as fast as you can: efficient tape spring analysis
Speaker: Zahra Soltani, Imperial College London
Location: Online Event
Thursday June 3, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Caltech Young Investigators Forum
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 1, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Numerical Simulation of performance and solar fuel conversion efficiency for photoelectrochemical devices
Speaker: Yikai (Katie) Chen, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 28, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Antonio Pedivellano
Speaker: Antonio Pedivellano, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 27, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Machine Learning approaches for predicting Seismic, Acoustic and Atmospheric Data
Speaker: Maria Giselle Fernandez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Tuesday May 25, 2021 3:30 PM
Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Speaker: Xiaobin Xiong, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday May 24, 2021 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Theoretical, computational, and experimental characterization of nematic elastomers
Speaker: Victoria (Tori) Lee, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 21, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Kunihiko Taira
Speaker: Kunihiko Taira, UCLA
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 20, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena
Speaker: Tal Cohen, MIT
Location: Online Event
Friday May 14, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Fabien Royer
Speaker: Fabien Royer, GALCIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 13, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to applications
Speaker: Shengqiang Cai, UC San Diego
Location: Online Event
Friday May 7, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Simon Toedtli
Speaker: Simon Toedtli, GALCIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Speaker: Ke Yu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Speaker: Mehran Tehrani, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 3:30 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Speaker: Wenlong Ma, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday May 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Speaker: Qi Lei, Princeton
Location: Online Event
Friday April 30, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Yashwanth Nakka
Speaker: Yashwanth Nakka, GALCIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 29, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Speaker: Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT
Location: Online Event
Monday April 26, 2021 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Speaker: Hyounghan Kwon, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday April 23, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Aditya A. Paranjape
Speaker: Aditya A. Paranjape, Imperial College London (starting in summer 2021)
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Creating a Dynamic Virtual Presence
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Speaker: Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, Johns Hopkins
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Speaker: Nil Gurel
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Speaker: Prof. Austin J. Minnich, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday April 9, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Mitul Luhar
Speaker: Mitul Luhar, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Speaker: Dr. Suraj Ravindran, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday April 2, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Shyam Bhaskaran
Speaker: Shyam Bhaskaran, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 1, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Moure, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
Imaging Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole
Speaker: Monika Mościbrodzka, Radboud University
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Speaker: Erika Ye, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Chiara Daraio
Speaker: Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Speaker: Megan Lickley
Location: Online Event
Friday March 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans
Speaker: Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame
Location: Online Event
Friday February 26, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group
Speaker: Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Capturing (and Keeping!) Attention on Zoom
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
How Do You Like Your Materials – with Multi-functionality and Reconfigurability or Just Lightweight? Additive Manufacturing of 3D-Architected Materials
Speaker: J.R. Greer
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Speaker: Daniel Pastor Moreno, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Speaker: Jenna Reher, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday February 19, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Eric Lauga
Speaker: Eric Lauga, University of Cambridge
Location: Online Event
Friday February 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Speaker: Bethany Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday February 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Dancing flames and singing tubes: predicting thermoacoustic instability
Speaker: Aimee Morgans, Imperial College London
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets
Speaker: Ethan Pickering, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 29, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Structure Genome: a Unified Multiscale Approach to Bridging Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
Speaker: Wenbin Yu, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Friday January 22, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
The hydrodynamics of rowing
Speaker: Jerry Westerweel, Delft University of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday January 15, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Speaker: Xichen Shi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday January 11, 2021 4:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reconciling our Biases with our Values
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Song, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 8, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Numerical simulations of turbulent flows over rough walls
Speaker: Ugo Piomelli, Queen's University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Speaker: Iwnetim Abate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 15, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems"
Speaker: Richard Cheng, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 15, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Multiscale, data-driven and nonlocal modeling of granular materials"
Speaker: Konstantinos Karapiperis, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 10, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
Speaker: Haolu (Jane) Zhang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday December 7, 2020 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
Point of Care, Everywhere!
Speaker: Axel Scherer, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 30, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization"
Speaker: Ellen Novoseller, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics: Fundamentals and Applications
Speaker: Carlos Hidrovo, Northeastern University
Location: Online Event
Friday November 13, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Deployable Robots via Origami-Inspired Design
Speaker: Cynthia Sung, University of Pennsylvana
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 12, 2020 12:00 PM
Chemical Engineering Seminar
A case for integrating solar geoengineering into climate policy
Speaker: David Keith, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - The Power of Nonlinearities: Unlocking Opportunities for Sensing and Computing with Light
Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday November 6, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Data-Driven Prediction of Partially Observed Multiscale Systems
Speaker: Krithika Manohar, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Monday November 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Series
Structural Evidence for Nitrogenase Metallocluster Modularity
Speaker: Trixia Buscagan, Caltech
Location: Online Event