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Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Arıkan meets Shannon: Polar codes with near-optimal convergence to channel capacity
Venkat Guruswami, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium

TBD
Kathryn Zurek, Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Politics, College of Arts and Science, New York University,
5:30pm 4/2 1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Photography on Campus: Caltech Chemistry Department

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
2:00pm 3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Leveraging Cyclophane and 1,2,3-Triazole Synthesis to Prospect for Novel Atropisomeric Scaffolds, Fluorophores, and Colorimetric Sensors
Ronald Brisbois, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Macalester College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemical Engineering Seminar

TBA
Kranthi K. Mandadapu, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Finance Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Eric D. Hilt, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Physics Colloquium

From single to statistical: gravitational-wave populations
Daniel Holz, University of Chicago,
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Reparametrization Modes in CFTs & Applications
Felix Haehl, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Nese Yildiz, University of Rochester,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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● POSTPONED: TAPIR Seminar

Title to be announced
Alexander Grant, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cornell University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Online Event
A Message From the Director
Mory Gharib, Director & Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics, GALCIT, Caltech,
Saturday, April 4th, 2020
Sunday, April 5th, 2020
Monday, April 6th, 2020
2:00pm 3:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Special Biochemistry Seminar

Prof. Dr. Ralf Mendel, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Caroline Morley, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Teaching an Old LHC new Higgs
Philip Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Ben Idini & Jiazheng Li, Graduate Students, Caltech,
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

This seminar has been canceled.
Matthias Dörries, Professor of Epistemology and History of Science, University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Tom Clark, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science, Emory College of Arts and Sciences,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
Rademacher type and Enflo type coincide
Ramon van Handel, Associate Professor, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium

TBD
Heino Falcke, Professor of Astroparticle Physics and Radio Astronomy, Department of Astronomy, Radboud University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Physical factors impacting convective storms and weather hazards
Jiwen Fan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture

Simon Billinge, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Ellen M. Sletten, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Water at the Inflection Point: Solutions for the Coming Water Crises
David Sedlak, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Teleportation by size, traversable wormholes, and quantum gravity in the lab
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Preskill group,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar

CANCELED: Quality Control During 40S Ribosome Assembly
Katrin Karbstein, Associate Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This event has been canceled.
Leslie Thornton, Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Friday, April 10th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
The Statistical Mechanics of Near-Extremal Black Holes
Luca Ilesiu, Princeton University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Online Event
Overview of the hypersonic boundary-layer transition (BOLT) flight experiment
Daniel Araya, Senior Aerospace Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Christian Marinelli Johansen, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
The Circumgalactic Medium: The Gas Around Galaxies
Yuguang Chen, PhD Candidiate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, April 11th, 2020
Monday, April 13th, 2020
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Imaging and Modelling the Yellowstone Plume
Stephen Grand, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Shell Companies Foundation Centennial Chair in Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: High Energy Physics Seminar

Learning Cosmology from the First Starts
Julian Muñoz, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar via Zoom

Online Event
"Sensing Inside and Outside: How Does the Brain Regulate Body Fluid Balance?"
Yuki Oka, Assistant Professor of Biology and Chen Scholar, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar

Chris Doe, Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

The A+ upgrade to the LIGO Interferometers: Progress in two acts
GariLynn Billingsley, A+ Deputy Project Leader, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Water on the Moon and the new Smallsat Mission Lunar Trailbl
Bethany Ehlmann, Professor, Planetary Science, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
CANCELED: NP-Hardness of Circuit Minimization for Multi-Output Functions
Rahul Ilango, Graduate Student, MIT,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program

This seminar has been canceled.
elin o'Hara slavick, Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Caregivers' Meeting

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Redistribution Through Markets
Scott Duke Kominers, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium

TBD
Amina Helmi, Professor of Dynamics, Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture

Martin Harmer, Alcoa Foundation Professor Senior Faculty Adviser for Engineering Research Initiatives, Lehigh University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar

Expanding the Chemical Toolbox for Acoustic-based Imaging
Jefferson Chan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

This seminar has been canceled.
Peter Arcidiacono, Professor of Economics, Duke University,
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Laser Based New Materials Design and Manufacturing: Integration of Nano/Micro Functional Structures
Xining Zang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,