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Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
Congyi Zhou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
6:45pm – 8:15pm
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Caltech Debate Toastmasters Club

Online Event
  • Public Event
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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2022 Voluntary Benefits Webinar (Session 2)

See event detail for location
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
The number of ergodic models of an infinitary sentence
Rehana Patel, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Humanities Open House

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
Spring 2022 Humanities Open House
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo's Black Holes
Maya Fishbach, NASA Einstein Fellow, CIERA, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Elastic and inelastic collisions, probed with transient sub-Doppler spectroscopy"
Gregory Hall, Sr. Chemist Emeritus, Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Caltech's Energy Transition
John Onderdonk, Interim Associate Vice President for Facilities, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On Hecke algebras for p-adic groups and local Langlands correspondances
Yujie Xu, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella, Research Group Leader, Department of Organometallic Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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R.A.D. Self-Defense for Women Tuesdays + R.A.D. Self-Defense for Men Wednesdays

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

Baxter Lecture Hall
Partisan Traps
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Sydney Stein Professor and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture: What Entanglement Can Tell Us About Our World

Online and In-Person Event
Scott K. Cushing, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
  • Public Event
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Mantra Wednesday

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
  • Public Event
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Investigating the Mechanism of Nitrogenase Reduction with Proton Inventory Studies
Siobhan MacArdle, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Poroelastic Spherical Indentation for Material Characterization
Haiying Huang, Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Keynote

Chen 100
"My Journey to Democratizing Healthcare"
Vicky Demas, CEO of Tesseract,
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Futures Day – Poster Session

Chen Breezeway
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

Modeling Black Hole Binaries in the Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Regime
Mekhi Dhesi,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Online Event
"Developing Improved Acoustic Reporter Genes for Non-invasive Continuous Ultrasound Imaging of Mammalian Cellular Activity in vivo"
Mengtong (Tom) Duan, (Shapiro Group),
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar - Demetrios Christodoulides

Chen 100
Optical thermodynamics of nonlinear highly multimode systems
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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MedE Ph.D. Defense, Vincenzo Costanza

Online and In-Person Event
Thermally Responsive Polymers for Wearable Calorimeters
Vincenzo Costanza, Medical Engineering PhD Student, Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Dr. Jevgenij Raskatov, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter B125
The Impact of ETF Index Inclusion on Stock Prices
John Duffy, Professor of Economics, UC Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

GPS Outreach-Outdoors: 2 years of progress in inclusive field-based educational outreach
GPS Outreach-Outdoors, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Where the tori live
Stephen DeBacker, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED

Online and In-Person Event
Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 13th, 2022
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Admission to Candidacy for the Degrees of Master of Science and Engineer

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Scheduling Examinations for the Degress of Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer

10:00am – 11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation

Annenberg 105
Fostering a reflective mindset
Michele DiPietro, PhD, Executive Director, Faculty Development and Recognition, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Kennesaw State University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
TBD
Luca Iliesiu, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Elucidating Metalloenzyme Mechanisms Through Protein-Based Models.
Hannah S. Shafaat, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University,
12:15pm – 1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing
Matthew Borselli, Manager, Device Technologies Department, HRL Laboratories, LLC,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Crellin 151
Do current pollution monitoring networks give a false sense of security? First results from the world's largest dense sensor network
Matthew S. Johnson, Professor, American atmospheric chemistry scientist, Chemistry, University of Copenhagen,
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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The 2022 WiC Career Panel

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

Cahill 370
Beyond Simulations
Paul Duffell, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Purdue University,
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
A nonlinear spectrum on closed manifolds
Christos Mantoulidis, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Mechanical Approach to Active Matter: Reverse Osmotic Effect and Motility-Induced Phase Separation
Hyeongjoo Row, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Progressive, Extrapolative Machine Learning for Turbulence Modeling

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Xiang Yang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Semana Latina Social

7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Chanticleer - Award-Winning Men's Chorus

Beckman Auditorium
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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BANDORAMA - Caltech Jazz Band

Ramo Auditorium
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Online Event
Neutron Stars: Where Extreme Gravity Meets Extreme Matter
Katerina Chatziioannou, Professor, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
9:30am – 3:30pm
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85th Annual Seminar Day

8:00pm – 10:00pm
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BANDORAMA - Caltech Wind Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Spring Concert Series

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Monday, May 16th, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am
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Special Biology Seminar

Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Bacterial Signaling within Biofilms and Beyond"
Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology, Duke University,
10:00am – 11:00am
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online Event
Unravelling binary and multiple star formation
Rajika Lakmali Kuruwit, University of Copenhagen,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Rheological Characterization of Polymer Additives for Mist Control and Drag Reduction
Red Lhota, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Perverse mod p sheaves on the affine Grassmannian
Robert Cass, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyls: Mechanistic Studies and Catalysis for the Synthesis of Functionalized Polyolefins
Shouyan Xiong, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Ravinder Dahiya

Online and In-Person Event
High-Performance Printed Electronics for Robots and Interactive Systems
Professor Ravinder Dahiya, FIEEE, FRSE, Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and EPSRC Research Fellow, Electronics and Nanoengineering, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK,
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
10:00am – 11:00am
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CTLO Director Candidate Presentation

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Revising Our Teaching: Three Questions to Guide the Next Course
Joseph Lampert, PhD, Interim Director, Center for Teaching & Learning, University of Chicago,
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
Eric Ambrose, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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LinkedIn Lab

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Machine Learning and Scientific Computing Series

Online Event
Adversarial Machine Learning and Instrumental Variables for Flexible Causal Modeling
Vasilis Syrgkanis, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, New England,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Two Analogues of the Euclidean Spherical Maximal Function on Heisenberg Groups
Rajula Srivastava, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tackling the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum devices: algorithmic improvements and error mitigation techniques
Mario Motta, research staff scientist, IBM,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA/USC Joint Analysis Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Order and disorder in multiscale substitution tilings
Yotam Smilansky, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecular design blueprints: materials and catalysts from new simulation and machine learning tools
Heather J Kulik, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Benjamin Idini, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
Yayaati Chachan, Graduate Student, Planetary Science, California Instittue of Technology,
4:00pm – 7:00pm
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R.A.D. Self-Defense for Women Tuesdays + R.A.D. Self-Defense for Men Wednesdays

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

Baxter Lecture Hall
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability
Tara Slough, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New York University,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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Behind the Book "The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us" by David J. Anderson

Online Event
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Trauma-Informed Yoga

Braun Athletic Center, Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections for Spring Term