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Day

Week

Month

Term

Friday, May 5, 2023

Ongoing

All Day Ongoing

Midterm Examination Period

Academic

Friday, May 5th, 2023

9:00am – 10:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Incorporation of non-canonical proline residues into proteins expressed in Escherichia coli

Stephanie Breunig, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

10:00am – 11:00am

Cool Beans Coffee for Postdocs-CCE

Internal Event

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthetic Studies Toward Total Synthesis of Enterocin

Yujia Tao, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Kinetic Theory of Waves for Turbulent States

Vladimir Rosenhaus, CUNY Graduate Center,

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Text as Data: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Zoom Session)

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127

Allocating with Priorities and Quotas: Algorithms, Complexity, and Dynamics

David Kempe, Professor of Computer Science, USC,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CPA Postdoc L(a)unch- May 5

Caltech Hall 9th Floor

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Unconditional Separations with Constant Depth Circuits

Adam Bene Watts, University of Waterloo,

12:15pm – 1:30pm

Caltech Y Student Activism Speaker Series (SASS)

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Pre-Keynote Lunch Q & A on Generative AI and Society

Kevin Roose, New York Times Tech Columnist,

12:30pm – 1:30pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Tetranuclear CaMn3O4 and Mn4O4 Complexes as Spectroscopic Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II

Angela Shiau, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Engineering cytochrome P450BM3 for oxidation and silicon–carbon bond cleavage of volatile methylsiloxanes

Nicholas Sarai, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

MFeS Clusters as Models for Complex Multimetallic Systems

Anna Scott, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers: A Multi-Band Opportunity for Gravitational Waves

Giacomo Fragione, Research Assistant Professor, CIERA, Northwestern University,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

AANHPI Heritage Month Boba Midterms Decompress

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Applied Physics Seminar

Keck 142

Piezoelectric Quantum Microsystems

Matt Eichenfield, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Caltech Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy (CSSPP) Roundtable Conversation

Baxter Lecture Hall

Shaping the Future: Societal Implications of Generative AI

Public Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Revolutionizing Hypersonic Flow Simulation: Physics-Aware Coarse Graining and Maximum Entropy Principles for Next-Generation Aerothermal Modeling

Marco Panesi, Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS), Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Fixed point-free pseudo-Anosovs and the cinquefoil

Luya Wang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Chemodivergent Organolanthanide-Catalyzed C–H α-Mono-Borylation of Pyridines."

Dr. Jacob (Jake) Rothbaum, Postdoctoral Scholar (Nelson Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

4:30pm – 9:30pm

Cinco De Mayo Social

Internal Event