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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities"
Ruzena Bajcsy, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weak subconvexity without a Ramanujan hypothesis
Jesse Thorner, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
From Moonshine to Black Holes, Number Theory in Physics
Jeffrey Harvey, Professor, Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Predicting and Understanding Initial Play
Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MIT,
6:00pm – 8:45pm
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Caltech Associates Reception and Dinner with Caltech's Tenth Provost

Athenaeum
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Indoor Track & Field) Caltech vs. Mountain T?s Invitational

8:00am – 2/8 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

10:00am – 2:00pm
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I-Corps Lean Startup Workshop

Avery Library
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Hecke operators for characters of Rational Conformal Field Theory
Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss #9

Avery Dining Hall
What is the Prison Industrial Complex?
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Arian Jadbabaie, Graduate Student, Hutzler Group,
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Science Museum's Beckman Room Open for Walk-Ins

Beckman Institute 131
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Exact Bulk Operators and the Fate of Locality
Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Building Coordinator & Floor Warden Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
From Cosmic Dust to Planetesimals: Models vs. Observations
Paola Pinilla, NASA Hubble Fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tricks used for Aerodynamic Experiments
Markus Raffel, Leibniz University ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Existence of closed geodesics through a regular point on translation surfaces
Weixu Su, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Constancy of generalized Hodge-Tate weights of a p-adic local system
Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Open-Mindedness

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech at Northwestern Duals

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Indoor Track & Field) Caltech vs. Mountain T?s Invitational

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Caltech vs. Cal Lutheran

10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

12:00pm – 3:00pm
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(Baseball) Occidental vs. Caltech

2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Saint Katherine vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aivazian Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shakhbandaryan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Jazz Band Guest Artist Concert

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, February 4th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech at Northwestern Duals

3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, February 5th, 2018
5:00am – 7:00pm
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Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
8:00am – 9:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Elucidating the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Replication and Repair
Phillip Bartels, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Proposal Writing Workshop

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Annenberg 107
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Gas-Turbine Heat Transfer – Challenges and Opportunities
Tom I-P. Shih, J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor , School of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Purdue University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
The small quantum group in type A and the diagonal coinvariants
Anna Lachowska, EPFL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
From Negative Index Metamaterials to Topological Light Sources
Boubacar Kante, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BELS

Kerckhoff 119
Microfluidics for 3D Tissue Engineering and Personal Health Diagnostics
Samuel Sia, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Minerology vs. thermodynamics, or, why are extracellular electron transfer pathways so complicated?
Daniel R. Bond, Associate Professor, CBS Plant/Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Meta Material, First Direct Observation of Reverse Cherenkov Radiation, and Test of Babinet Principle
Min Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Proteins in nanoporous hydrogels: adsorption, diffusion, and folding
Lydia Kisley, Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
5:00am – 7:00pm
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Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
10:30am – 11:30am
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English Conversation Group

Athenaeum
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Vertex algebras and three dimensional gauge theories
Kevin Costello, Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances
Soon-Jo Chung, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, Engineering and Applied Science, CALTECH,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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FPTL Playdates

Off Campus
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Martin Savage, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CTLO-Physics-Mathematics Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Taking a scientific approach to teaching science and engineering
Carl Wieman, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
TBD
Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Electronic-Structural Barrier to Higher Photoconversion Efficiency in Semiconductors
Scott Cushing, DOE EERE Postdoctoral Fellow , Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from the UK
Kirill Pogorelskiy, Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
5:00am – 7:00pm
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Filming on Campus

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
9:00am – 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics Enabled Integrity Assessment of Urban Buildings
Hao Sun, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Lab for Infrastructure Sensing and Data Science, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). ,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series

How A Caltech Faculty Member Engages with the Wider World Through Social Media
Sean Carroll, PhD, Research Professor of Physics, Division of Physics, Math, and Astronomy, Caltech,
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - "You and Your Thesis"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller), III
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Eric Ashley, Ph.D.; Danielle Schultz, Ph.D.; Christopher Sinz, Ph.D. , Merck,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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American History Job Candidate Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Crime Capital: Public Safety, Urban Development, and Black Politics in Post-Civil Rights Atlanta
Danielle Wiggins, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Emory University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Circumgalactic Matter Matters for Galaxy Evolution
Jessica Werk, Univ of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Climate Change in the West African Monsoon: Confusion, Consensus, and the Way Forward
Michela Biasutti, Lamont Associate Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Exciton-phonon interactions: theoretical techniques for light-induced structural changes
David Strubbe, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Merced,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters
Meisam Razaviyayn, Assitant Professor, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering , USC Machine Leaning Center,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Men's Basketball) Occidental vs. Caltech

7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Occidental

7:00pm – 7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
9:00am – 11:30am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
10:00am – 11:00am
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Income Insights: Mental accounting in retirement

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Income Insights: Mental accounting in retirement
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices"
Tom Lubensky, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Rubrik -- Start Your Own Startup
Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder, Rubrik,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar

This talk has been cancelled
George Loewenstein,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Analytic Number Theory in Function Fields and Twin Primes in the Large Finite-Field Limit
Ofir Gorodetsky, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The life of vortex knots and links and the conservation of helicity
William Irvine, Associate Professor, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Moore B280
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Vahid Tarokh, Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Duke University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Seminar: Young Investigator Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science

South Mudd 365
How vegetation impacts erosion
Qingjun (Judy) Yang, PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, February 9th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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Blue Planet - Seas of Life: Open Ocean

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space
Frederik Denef, Columbia University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Kitaev Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Interplay of Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Transition Metal Mediated Nitrogen Fixation
Benjamin Matson, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Theory of EM counterparts of neutron star mergers
Kenta Hotokezaka, Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Baseball) Providence Christian vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Exploiting Sparsity for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Eurika Kaiser, University of Washington,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Strongly automorphic mappings
Alastair Fletcher, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Emotional Intelligence Toolkit: Workshop on Open-Mindedness (part 2 of 2)

Sherman Fairchild Library 326 (Interactive Computer Classroom)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
From Imaging Excitons at the Nanoscale to Emerging Device Applications
Lea Nienhaus, Dr., Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Factorising X^n
Jonathan Hickman, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
A Epiperimetric approach to singular points in the Alt-Caffarelli functional
Max Engelstein, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
Saturday, February 10th, 2018
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Fencing) Caltech at IFCSC Meet

12:00am – 12:00am
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(Swimming & Diving) Chapman vs. Caltech

9:30am – 11:00am
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Child Educational Center Open House