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Monday, May 24th, 2021
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
The Role of Complexity Bounds in Optimization
Stephen Wright, Professor, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Online Event
TBA
Stephen Wright, George B Dantzig, Professor of Computer Sciences, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Two short tales of axions
JiJi Fan, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online Event
Redox Chemistry and Structural Reorganization upon Small Molecule Activation at Nanoscale WFe13 Cluster
Anna Scott, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
Chee Huat (Linus) Eng, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Reflecting on George Floyd One Year Later

12:00pm – 1:15pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization

Online Event
Fighting the First Wave
Peter Baldwin, Global Distinguished Professor, NYU; Professor of History, UCLA,
  • Public Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Online Event
The context-dependent, combinatorial logic of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signaling
Heidi Klumpe, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Student Leadership Awards Ceremony

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Xiaobin Xiong, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Online Event
Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry
Fe Dai, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Online Event
TBD
William Shih, Professor, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Caltech Alumna Dr. Ellis Meng (USC)

Online Event
"Polymer-based Microfabricated Implants"
Ellis Meng, Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair in Convergent Bioscience and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California,
  • Public Event
6:45pm – 8:15pm
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Caltech Debate Toastmasters Club

Online Event
  • Public Event
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Streamwise homogeneous turbulent boundary layers
Joseph Ruan, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
An Overview of Using Mechanism Design for Social Good
Kira Goldner, Postdoc, Columbia University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Online Event
Geometric approaches to infinite domain problems
Albert Chern, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Making the Most of Virtual Internships (new date)

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

Online Event
The Wisdom of the Crowd and Higher-Order Beliefs
Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Personal Emergency Preparedness Training

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

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium - Neugebauer Lecture

Online Event
Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes
Andrea Ghez, Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Antarctic Sea Ice Variability, Change and Linkages with the Atmospheric Circulation
Marilyn Raphael, University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Online Event
Tracing Stress-driven Atomic-scale Dynamics in Metallic Glasses
Robert Maass, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Out of the Lab: Konstantin Batygin

Online Event
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Spiritual Nerds Podcast: Do our physical senses reveal the full spectrum of reality?

Online Event
  • Public Event
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
10:00am – 11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar

Online Event
Frontal circuit specialisations for decision making
Laurence Hunt, Wellcome/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Machine Learning approaches for predicting Seismic, Acoustic and Atmospheric Data
Maria Giselle Fernandez, Postdoctoral Associate Fellow, XCP-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters

Online Event
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Online Event
Metabolic optogenetics as a new paradigm to study and engineer metabolism
José L. Avalos, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University,
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

Online Event
Transforms and Entropy
Erdal Arikan, Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
Architecture of the cytoplasmic face of the NPC and an examination of how SARS-CoV2 ORF6 manipulates nucleocytoplasmic transport events
Dr. George Mobbs (Hoelz Group), Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Making the Most of Virtual Internships

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online Event
Cavity acoustodynamics: insight into quantum noise in materials and opportunities for quantum computing
Oskar Painter, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Boba Magic

Online Event
Friday, May 28th, 2021
All Day
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Last Day for Presenting Theses for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

All Day
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Last Day of Classes for Seniors and Graduate Students

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

Online Event
Cosmology from confinement
Mark van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue
Atul Singh Arora, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online Event
Manipulating the Physicochemical Properties of Vanadium Oxide Clusters with Atomic Precision
Ellen M. Matson, Wilmot Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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The Stories We Tell: Writing the APIDA+ Experience for Social Change

Online Event
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online Event
The extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral problem
Alvin Chua, Postdoctoral Scholar, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Deployment Dynamics of Thin-Shell Space Structures

Online Event
Antonio Pedivellano
Antonio Pedivellano, PhD Student, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Lens space surgeries, lattices, and the Poincaré homology sphere
Jacob Caudell, Mathematics Department, Boston College,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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"From the Earth to the Moon" – Virtual Reading of a New Musical

Online Event
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Saturday, May 29th, 2021
8:00am – Ongoing
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Study Period for Seniors and Graduate Students

Monday, May 31st, 2021
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Memorial Day (Institute Holiday)

Off Campus
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information