Institute Calendar
May 2020
Ongoing
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5/1
4:00pm
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5/5
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Friday, May 1st, 2020
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
Kantaro Ohmori,
SCGP, Stony Brook University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications
Mykel Kochenderfer,
Professor,
Aeronautics & Astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Dr. Trevor Lohrey,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Wedding Photography on Campus: Touloumdjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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5/8
4:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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2:25pm
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5/15
11:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
TBD
Claudio Faccenna,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: H. B. Keller Colloquium
**CANCELLED** Variations on a theme by George Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Method
Jesus De Loera,
Professor of Mathematics,
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Online Event
Invariants of 4-manifolds from Khovanov-Rozansky link homology
Paul Wedrich,
Max Planck Institute/University of Bonn/MSRI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
Composite Higgs Models at the LHC and beyond
Da Liu,
UC Davis,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
11:15am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Regularity of the centered fractional maximal function
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Structure, Function, and Application of Bacterial ABC Transporters
Chengcheng Fan,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar
TBD
Elissa Hallem,
Associate Professor,
Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
An improved approximation algorithm for TSP in the half integral case
Nathan Klein,
Graduate Student,
University of Washington,
10:30am
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10:45am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Big Ramsey degrees for finite binary classes forbidding finitely many structures
Andy Zucker,
Université Lyon 1,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Stability and Robustness in Misspecified Learning Models
Mira Frick,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:15pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Collin L. Broholm,
Gerhard H. Dieke Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in the Membraneless Organelles and Stressed Proteome
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Arun Nagpal,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Kevin Kaichuang Yang,
Alumnus,
Celeste Labedz,
Graduate Student,
Geophysics,
- Public Event
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
This seminar has been canceled.
Felicity Meakins,
Associate Professor of Linguistics,
The University of Queensland, Australia,
Thursday, May 7th, 2020
10:30am
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10:45am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fast and Guaranteed Safe Controller Synthesis for Dynamical Systems
Chuchu Fan,
Dr.,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Finance Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Michael Sockin,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
McCombs School of Business,
UT Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Biomolecular ultrasound imaging of in vivo phagolysosomal function"
Bill Ling,
Shapiro Group, Caltech,
1:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Biochemistry Seminar
Base editing and prime editing: chemistry on the genome without double-strand breaks
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, May 8th, 2020
10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
1+1d adjoint QCD and non-invertible topological lines
Dan Harlow,
MIT,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Simulating the collapse of false-vacuum bubbles in spin chains
Ash Milsted,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Got Stress? Visualizing and Inferring Film Stresses in patterned Wafers
Ares Rosakis,
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Alberto Naveira Garabato,
University of Southampton, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ryan Ribson,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 9th, 2020
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 11th, 2020
9:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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5/15
4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Beyond Diversity: Developing Inclusion Skills to Optimize Outcomes
Sumun L. Pendakur, Ed.D.,
Chief Learning Officer and Director, USC Equity Institutes,
USC Race and Equity Center,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
pezo-1 function in Caenorhabditis elegans
Katherine Brugman,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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2:15pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Chemistry Club Seminar
Resolving Nano-Bio Interactions at the Single-Construct Level
Teri W. Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Boswell Wing,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Online Event
Corks, involutions, and Heegaard Floer homology
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online Event
David Shih,
New Approaches to New Physics Searches at the LHC: Anomaly Detection and Unsupervised Deep Learning,
Rutgers,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Lia Halloran,
Artist-in-Residence (Spring 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Kip Thorne,
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Harden M. McConnell Lecture
Mass spectrometry: From plasma proteins to mitochondrial membranes
Professor Dame Carol Robinson,
Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Stephen Morris,
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
Aida Rehmard,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Elizabeth Bailey,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
6:45pm
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8:15pm
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Online Vector Balancing and Geometric Discrepancy
Sahil Singla,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Exchange Design and Efficiency
Marzena Rostek,
Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Astronomy Colloquium
TBD
Joss Bland-Hawthorn,
ARC Laureate Fellow Professor of Physics,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Beckman Lecture
TBD
Jeffrey Moore,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Andrew Ault,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: General Biology Seminar
TBD
Cornelis Murre,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Biological Sciences,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
B. Pablo Montagnes,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Emory University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame,
Graduate Student,
Bioengineering,
Howard Hui,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics,
Peter Martin,
Alumnus,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why Does It Matter?
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 14th, 2020