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Thursday, April 1st, 2021
10:00am 11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Online Event
Peril, Prudence and Planning as Risk, Avoidance and Worry
Peter Dayan, Professor of Informatics, University of Tübingen; Director of the Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, University of Tübingen,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Dr. Adrian Moure, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Quality Control During 40S Ribosome Assembly
Katrin Karbstein, Associate Professor of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
A surprising role for microbial "antibiotics" in the promotion of phosphorous bioavailability
Dr. Darcy McRose (Newman Group), Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
Maass forms and the mock theta function f(q)
Alexander Dunn, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
AI for physics & physics for AI
Max Tegmark, MIT,
Friday, April 2nd, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED

Online Event
TBD
Geoff Penington, UC Berkeley,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Urmila Mahadev, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Catalyst-Controlled Selectivity in Iridium-Catalyzed Alkyl Ester Cleavage
Nathan D. Schley, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Halo's Magnetic field as Evident from stRiated Interstellar Clouds (HOMERIC)
Aris Tritsis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, ANU,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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An Overview of Deep Space Navigation

Online Event
Shyam Bhaskaran
Shyam Bhaskaran, Supervisor, Outer Planet Navigation Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Skein lasagna modules of 2-handlebodies
Ikshu Neithalath, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
Saturday, April 3rd, 2021
10:00am 3:00pm
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Caltech Shines

Online Event
  • Internal Event
Monday, April 5th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Melinda Perkins, Postdoctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Subgroups of PLo(I)PLo^fo(I) which do not embed into Thompson's group FF
Justin Moore, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Online Event
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
Charles Hodgson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Cosmology and Unification
Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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3:00pm 3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
The extremals of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality
Ramon van Handel, Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University,
4:00pm 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Online Event
Explicit and nonlinear variants of Bourgain's projection theorem
Pablo Shmerkin, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Revealing the Bulk Compositions of Small Planets
Michael Greklek-McKeon, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Antonio Penta, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Affiliated Professor, Barcelona GSE,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
Revealing Massive Star Mass Loss Through Supernovae
Takashi Moriya, Assistant Professor, NOA Japan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Lacustrine records of Cenozoic and Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimate change in western North America
Daniel Ibarra, University of California Berkeley,
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Dr. Suraj Ravindran, Postdoctoral Scholar, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, (GALCIT), Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

Online Event
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Ramina Ghods, Postdoctoral Fellow, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
In situ structural study of the Legionella pneumophila type IV secretion system
Dr. Yuxi Liu (Jensen Group), Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
The Relative Trace Formula and Its Applications
Liyang Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Unveiling Our Dynamic Infrared Sky
Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech,
Friday, April 9th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Probing gravitational EFTs with the four-graviton amplitude
Sasha Zhiboedov, CERN,
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Frederik Nathan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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BBE and HSS Postdoc Speaker Series

23andme Career Talk
Jennifer Low, MD, PhD, 23andme Head of Therapeutic Development, 23andme,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Online Event
Decolonizing Deep History
Pratik Chakrabarti, Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester; Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
  • Public Event
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
Radiative turbulence in magnetically-dominated astrophysical plasmas
Emanuele Sobacchi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Amphichiral knots with large 4-genera
Allison Miller, Mathematics Department, Rice University,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Tunable porous and patterned surfaces for turbulence control

Online Event
Mitul Luhar
Mitul Luhar, Associate Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
Monday, April 12th, 2021
9:00am 10:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Enabling Searches for Long-lived Particles and Precision Timing at CMS
Cristian Peña, Fermilab,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
This seminar has been canceled.
Anastasia Buyalskaya, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The Wadge hierarchy on Zariski topologies
Riccardo Camerlo, Department of Mathematics, University of Genoa,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Stability of Photo-Electrochemical Interface for Solar Fuels
Weilai Yu, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
Asu Ozdaglar, MathWorks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
1:00pm 2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Online Event
"Overcoming Chromatin to Change Cell Fate"
Kenneth Zaret, Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Paul McEuen (Cornell University)

Online Event
Microscopic Robots?
Paul McEuen, John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science and the Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Na Li, Gordon McKay Professor, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University,
9:00am 10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Volatile organic compound emissions from Arctic ecosystems
Riikka Rinnan, University Copenhagen,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Andrea Lincoln, Postdoc, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Online Event
Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in Membraneless Organelles and the Stressed Proteome
Xin Zhang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Adam Tauman Kalai, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research,
Ehud Kalai, James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Online Event
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Knocking at the Gravitational Wave Door
Maura McLaughlin, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials
Oleg Prezhdo, Professor, Chemistry, University of Southern California,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Online Event
Rich Rocks, the Climate Crisis, and the Tech Imperium
Sophia Kalantzakos, Visiting Fellow in the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology (2020-2021), Caltech; Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, New York University,
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
9:00am 9:55am
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Analysis Seminar

Online Event
On the stability of classical boundary layers
Toan Nguyen, Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University,
10:00am 11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Online Event
Choosing, fast and slow: Implications of prioritized-sampling models for understanding automaticity and control
Cendri Hutcherson, Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Decision Neuroscience, University of Toronto,
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Prof. Austin J. Minnich, Professor, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Multi-functional metamaterials
Sai Sharan Injeti, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
Broad sarbecovirus cross-reactivity exhibited by a subset of COVID-19 donor-derived neutralizing antibodies
Claudia Jette (Bjorkman Group), Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Online Event
The distribution of closed geodesics on the modular surface
Alexandre Perozim de Faveri, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Active Topology
Cristina Marchetti, UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm 8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Science on Ice: What Ice Says About Past, Present, and Future Climate

Online Event
Alex Gardner, Glacier Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
  • Public Event
Friday, April 16th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online Event
Dynamics of 1+1 Dimensional Gauge Theories and Exotic Symmetries
Zohar Komargodski, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,