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Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
11:00am – 2:00pm
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ME72 Engineering Design: WABOBABOT Competition

Caltech Hall Pond
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Yang Liu, Graduate Student, Computation & Neural Systems, Caltech,
Mu Qiao, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
TBA
Dorsa Sadigh, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Vassar vs. Caltech

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Manifestation of Spin-Couplings in Computational Molecular Spectroscopies
Xiaosong Li, Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry, co-Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Nisheeth Vishnoi

Annenberg 314
TOWARDS CONTROLLING BIAS IN AI SYSTEMS
Nisheeth Vishnoi, Yale,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Atmospheric accretion, evolution and loss of Super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
Hilke Schlichting, Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Horowitz Lecture

Kerckhoff 119
"Robust Patterning in Early Embryos"
Naama Barkai, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science - Israel,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Geometric Recursion
Jorgen Andersen, Department of Mathematics - Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The Data Science of Human Heredity… Decades before Mendel
Theodore M. Porter, Distinguished Professor of History & Vice Chair for Academic Personnel, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Endogenous Intractability: Why Some Persistent Problems Persist
Bob Powell, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Whittier

7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Banff Mountain Film Festival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Winter Term

8:30am – 10:00am
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Women's History Month Watch party: Build Your Authentic Brand

Gates-Thomas 210
9:00am – 10:00am
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Science of Benefits TIAA Webinar

Responsible Investing
10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Managing Your Family's Expectations

Avery Library
12:00pm – 12:30pm
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Self Defense Class

Braun Gym
12:30pm – 1:00pm
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Self Defense Class

Braun Gym
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: You and Your Thesis

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Measures agreeing on invariant subsets, II
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Skidmore vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Formation of Close Binary Stars and Planets
Maxwell Moe, University of Arizona, Tucson,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Chip-Scale Nonlinear Photonics and its Applications
Mengjie Yu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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CANCELLED - Decoupling Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Decoupling for moment curve 2
Maksym Radziwill, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CANCELLED - Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
K. Barry Sharpless, W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Carbon-silica cycle coupling throughout Earth History
Donald Penman, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Beilinson-Bernstein localization
Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar

Broad 100
"Free Will, Determinism, and Therapy Resistance in Cancer"
Arjun Raj, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Strategically Simple Mechanisms
Tilman Börgers, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan,
7:00pm – 10:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Connecticut College vs. Caltech

Thursday, March 14th, 2019
8:00am – 3/17 5:00pm
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Study Period

8:30am – 3:00pm
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Immigration Roadmap Conference

Avery Dining Hall
9:00am – 3/16 5:00pm
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Hidden Algebraic Structures in Topology

Linde Hall 310
9:00am – 10:00am
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Science of Benefits TIAA Webinar

Market-Proof Your Retirement with TIAA Traditional
10:30am – 11:30am
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Radioactive Sealed Sources

Keith Spalding B117
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CPET Seminar - Effective Feedback Practices Workshop

Crellin 151
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
TBD
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Uncertainties, Risk, and Learning in Engineering Systems
Marco Broccardo, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research, ETH Zürich (Switzerland),
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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Structural analysis of the human cytoplasmic filament Nup358 and its involvement in mRNA export
Chris Bley, PostDoc, Hoelz Group, CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Nuna Health -- Measuring Value in Value Based Healthcare
Andi Bui, Nuna Health,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Computing Modular Data of Pointed Fusion Categories
Angus Gruen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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STEMinar: Dr. Esposito

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:10pm – 12:50pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Baseball) Ithaca vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Bowdoin vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 4:00pm
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BMB Winter Rotation Seminar

Crellin 151
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Spillover Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance
Mark Jansen, Assistant Professor of Finance, Eccles School of Business, University of Utah,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Hope Johnson, Associate Professor in Biology, Cal State Fullerton,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Drinfeld Modular Varieties for GL(r) and Families of Modular Forms
Marc-Hubert Nicole, Mathematical Institute of Marseille, Univ. d'Aix-Marseille,
Friday, March 15th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBD
Ethan Dyer, Stanford/John Hopkins/Google,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Humanities Seminar

Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave.
Hermann Weyl and the Problem of Space
Joshua Eisenthal, Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Entangled XOR Games
Anand Natarajan, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
When Supernovae-driven Outflows Meet with the Circumgalactic Medium
Miao Li, Flatiron Research Fellow, Galaxy Formation, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Inverse spectral problems for canonical Hamiltonian systems
Alexei Poltoratski, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Autonomous balloon swarms for persistent, in situ, real-time measurement of hurricanes, and a Drunken Sailor perspective and Spontaneously Singular Control approach for Lagrangian particles in turbulence
Thomas Bewley, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Photo Mediated Electrosynthesis of Ordered Chalcogen Mesostructures
Kathryn R. (Katie) Hamann, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Let's Talk

Jorgensen 126
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Controlling intracellular phase transitions with light
Clifford Brangwynne, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture - Stephen Wolfram

Baxter Lecture Hall
Building the Computational Future
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Center for Student Services, Lobby
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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The Golden Age of Exoplanet Exploration

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Planet Nine from Outer Space
Mike Brown, Professor, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, March 16th, 2019
10:00am – 3:00pm
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Caltech Science for March

Beckman Mall
  • Public Event
11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Lakeland vs. Caltech