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"The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image" - Weekdays, 11am-4pm

Beckman Institute 131
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Monday, April 1st, 2019
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Beginning of Instruction for Spring Term

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10:30am – 12:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Moore B270
Decoding the Past
Siddharth Jain, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
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1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Seven Deadly Sins of Aircraft Design
Barnaby Wainfan, Technical Fellow for Aerodynamics Design, Northrop Grumman Corporation,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The coherent Satake category and Wilson-‘t Hooft operators
Harold Williams, Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics, UC Davis,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BELS

Kerckhoff 119
"Combining DNA Synthesis, Multiplexed Reporters, and Genome Engineering to better Understand Human Gene Regulation and Protein Function"
Sriram 'Sri' Kosuri, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Constraining the Timescales and Distances of Solid Migration in the Early Solar System
James Bryson, Junior Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Unlocking Neutron Stars as Sensitive Probes of Dark Matter
Tim Linden, Ohio State University,
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
All Day
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CANCELED "The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image"

Beckman Institute 131
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9:00am – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Paleomagnetic evidence for partially
James Bryson, Junior Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Gaypril Kick-Off

Red Door Cafe
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12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Outdoors Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute Lawn
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Identifying the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Jaap Abbring, Professor of Econometrics, University of Tilburg,
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7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Fully Dynamic Spectral Vertex Sparsifiers and Applications
Richard Peng, Georgia Tech,
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11:00am – Ongoing
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"The Mind's Eye: Richard Feynman in Word and Image" - Weekdays, 11am-4pm

Beckman Institute 131
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Dish and Discuss 11: Indigenous Cultures Represented in Dance

Bechtel Residence Dining Hall
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Emotional Well-Being Workshop Series - Breathing techniques for emotional self-regulation

Avery Library
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1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biosafety - Comprehensive Training

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

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Coffee@Caltech

Bechtel Residence Dining Hall
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Evolved Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs
Boris Gaensicke, University of Warwick,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Adventures with carbon monoxide: Space-based constraints on the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere
Dylan Jones, University of Toronto,
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5:30pm – 8:00pm
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Film Screening: "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap"

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Conference Room
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8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Azita Emami - Tiny Chips for Brain-Body-Machine Interfaces

Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Learning in Human-Robot Interaction: Optimization as an Inductive Bias
Anca Dragan, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Chair Yoga

Gates-Thomas 115
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12:30pm – 1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Towards real world quantum networks
Raju Valivarthi, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona,
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Weak containment, co-induction and invariant random subgroups
Alexander Kechris, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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4:00pm – 6:00pm
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California Nonresident Tax Workshop

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
Recommendations with Feedback
Gustavo Manso, Professor of Finance and William A. and Betty H. Hasler Chair in New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Evaluating controls on the carbon isotope signatures of marine phytoplankton
Elise Wilkes, Postdoctoral Scholar, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Koszul duality for Iwasawa algebras modulo $p$
Claus M. Sorensen, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Dark Matter direct detection at a crossroads
Ranny Budnik, Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute,
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5:15pm – 7:15pm
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PMA TecherTalk

Linde Hall 310
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Friday, April 5th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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Galapagos—The Islands That Changed The World

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

Lauritsen 469
Entanglement as a connection for holographic spacetimes
Lampros Lamprou, MIT,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
"Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate"
Jon Kindem, Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Path counting and rank gaps in differential posets
Praveen Venkataramana, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle the Term - Workshop on productivity without procrastination

Avery Library
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12:30pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Associates Program, New Frontiers of Space: A Private Tour of JPL

JPL
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Moore 139
Multi-contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography: Seeing through small-animal wholebody and whole brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
Lei Li, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
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3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Baseball) Redlands vs. Caltech

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3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Caltech at Cal Lutheran

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

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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Charged Particle Dynamics of Advanced Space Propulsion
Richard Wirz, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
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3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Homology directions and veering triangulations
Michael Landry, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Hammett Series of Site-Differentiated Iron Clusters: Remote Ligand Modifications Tune Redox Distribution, Magnetic Properties and Ligand Binding
Charles (Charlie) Arnett, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
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4:30pm – 5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Polynomial Roth theorems in Salem sets
Shaoming Guo, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin Madison,
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5:30pm – 6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
TBA
Irina Holmes, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,
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7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Outdoor Track & Field) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer Invite

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7:00am – 4:00pm
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Caltech Y Make-A-Difference Day

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8:00am – 10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stajduhar/Riera Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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9:30am – 5:00pm
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N+10th Southern California Topology Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
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10:00am – 1:00pm
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(Women's Tennis) Caltech at Occidental

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11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

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11:00am – 2:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Claremont-M-S vs. Caltech

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1:00pm – 4:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at Alumni Game

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2:00pm – 5:00pm
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(Men's Tennis) Occidental vs. Caltech

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2:30pm – 5:30pm
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(Baseball) Caltech at Redlands

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8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Jayme Stone & Folklife

Beckman Institute Auditorium
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Sunday, April 7th, 2019
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Quatuor Danel

Beckman Auditorium
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6:30pm – 9:00pm
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Union Station's Masters of Taste

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Monday, April 8th, 2019
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Harvard University,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BELS

Kerckhoff 119
TBD
Deborah Gordon, Professor, Biology, Stanford University,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Annenberg 105
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Annenberg 105
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Global Ecological Change Beyond the Year 2100
James T. Randerson, Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor, Earth System Science School of Physical Sciences, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Primordial black holes as dark matter
Alexander Kusenko, UCLA & Kavli IPMU,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Transfer of H+, H•, H-, and e- from M-H Bonds, and their Applications to Synthesis
Jack R. Norton, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Columbia University ,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
TBA
Hongyao MA, Graduate Student, Economics and Computation, Harvard,
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4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Social Science Seminar for Students

Baxter B125
Behavioral Political Economy Experiments
Pedro Dal Bo, Professor of Economics, Brown University,
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
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11:30am – 1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Taka Suegami, Visitor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Daw- An Wu, Lab Manager, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
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12:15pm – 12:45pm
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Outdoors Guided Meditation

Beckman Institute Lawn
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar - Special Event with Condensed Matter Physics

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Jonathan Simon, Associate Professor of Physics & The James Franck Institute, and IME Fellow, University of Chicago,
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4:00pm – 4/10 5:00pm
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CANCELED -- General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
CANCELED
Stephen Libreles, Professor, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Coherent Electron Dynamics in Inter-dimensional Metals: From Atomically Precise Clusters to Plasmonic Transducers
Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
The trajectory of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua
Davide Farnocchia, Navigation Engineer, JPL,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation
Simon Hutteger, Professor of Philosophy, UC Irvine,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Informational roles of pre-election polls
Jinhee Jo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kyung Hee University,
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7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
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7:30pm – 10:00pm
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Caltech Playreaders 68th Season: "Par for the Corpse" by Jack Sharkey

Athenaeum, Hall of Associates
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Effects of branching on polymer conformation, crystallization and self-assembly of polymers
Joey Kim, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
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10:00am – 11:30am
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Shop Safety Training

Central Engineering Services, Student Shop
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Keith Spalding B117
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4:00pm – 7:00pm
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(Women's Water Polo) Caltech at La Verne

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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The Discovery of Pulsars - A Graduate Student's Story
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Dual-Comb Spectroscopy for Open-Path Atmospheric Gas Measurements
Nathan Newbury, National Institute of Standards & Technology,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Organizational Meeting
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Joint Algebra and Geometry/Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Cohomology of the space of polynomial morphisms on A^1 with prescribed ramifications
Oishee Banerjee, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Nanophononic Devices Based on Layered Materials
Davide Donadio, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UC Davis,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Frontiers in Catalytic Heteroatom Transfer: Applications to Late-Stage Oxidation and Small Molecule Synthesis
Michael Hilinski, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Frontiers in Catalytic Heteroatom Transfer: Applications to Late-Stage Oxidation and Small Molecule Synthesis
Michael Hilinski, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia,
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Persuasion Meets Delegation
Anton Kolotilin, Associate Professor, UNSW Business School,
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
8:30am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

Moore 239
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