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Monday, May 8th, 2023
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Exploring the Hidden Hydrosphere and Biogeosphere in the World's Oldest Rocks
Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University Professor, Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Deposits Geology, Deaprtment of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquim

Learning Matchings, Maps, and Trajectories
Jonathan Niles-Weed, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Data Science, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Matching Effective Theories Efficiently (Matchete) and dealing with evanescent operators
Julie Pages, UC San Diego,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Caltech Everhart Lecture Series Talk #1

Imaging the Beginning of Time from the South Pole
Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Soliman, Applied Physics, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Radical-Based Approach for Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Masayuki Inoue, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Ali Ellebedy | Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 - 4 pm

"Dynamics of Germinal Center B Cell Responses in Humans"
Ali Ellebedy, Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

"A Pinch of Salt, a Splash of Water, and a Dash of Ions: The Recipe for Tweaking Polyelectrolyte Complexes' Glass Transition and Relaxation Time"
Jodie Lutkenhaus, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Presidential Impact Fellow, Axalata Coating Sytems Chair, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

A JWST MIRI Dayside Emission Spectrum of the Benchmark Hot Jupiter HD 189733b/ The Spatial Distribution of the Unidentified 2.07μm Absorption on Europa and Implications for its Origin
Julie Inglis, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
Ryleigh Davis, Graduate Student, Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Attribute-based Subsidies and Market Power: an Application to Electric Vehicles
Panle Jia Barwick, The Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm 6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series

Online Event
Patenting your Innovation
Rose Kiser, Assistant Director for Technology Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech,
John Peck, Partner, KPPB law firm.,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
11:00am 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

Online Event
Lower bounds on the overhead of a quantum memory
Omar Fawzi, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Online Event
Every CBER is smooth below the Carlson-Simpson generic partition
Allison Wang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Tyler Casselman, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

The Evolution of Stellar Rotation: Alone and Together, Inside and Out
Jamie Tayar, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Florida,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

What is the aerosol state in the ambient atmosphere? Or: Particle-resolved modeling to tackle structural uncertainty in aerosol models
Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Investigations of Topological and Quantum Phenomena in Epitaxial Semimetallic Thin Films
Chris Palmstrøm, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Intracellular Electrophysiology
Yamuna Krishnan, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
7:30pm 8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Making Wearable Materials Smarter

Online and In-Person Event
Chiara Daraio, G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
  • Public Event
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning, Mechanics, and Metallurgy
Allison M. Beese, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Photo-polymerization of Collagen using a Photobase"
Akash Dhawan, Greer Group,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Topological frequency conversion in Weyl semimetals
Frederik Nathan, Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics, University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar Series

A thermodynamic and molecular model for ion channel and transporter dimerization in membranes
Janice Roberston, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar Series

Power, Noise and Scaling of Earth's Surface: Disentangling Causes of Landscape Evolution
Gareth G. Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, Department of Earth, Science, and Engineering, Imperial College London,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Dr. Samir Mitragotri

A Hitchhiker's and Backpacker's Approach to Drug Delivery
Professor Samir Mitragotri, Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Deep Synoptic Array: the origins of fast radio bursts
Vikram Ravi, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Organizing a Kingdom
Nico Voigtlander, Professor of Economics, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

Visual Storytelling Before Comics: Theorizing the Sequential Image
Rachel Teukolsky, Professor of English, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar

Insights from Nonlinear Continuous Data Assimilation for Turbulent Flows
Elizabeth Carlson, Postdoctoral Fellow, PIMS, University of Victoria,
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Visual Culture Seminar

A Celebration of Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Yolanda Gonzalez, Artist,
Betty Avila, Executive Director, Self Help Graphics and Art,
Dr. Claudia Zapata, UCLA Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicano/a Studies, UCLA,
Dr. J.V. Decemvirale, Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Friday, May 12th, 2023
11:00am 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Lighting up the brain: Wafer-scale integrated photonics for implantable neural interfaces
Joyce Poon, Max Planck Institute,
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
An On-Shell Approach to Self-Force on Gravitational Plane Waves
Andrea Cristofoli, University of Edinburgh,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Arrovian Social Choice and Decentralizability: An Integrated Approach
Wonki Jo Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Korea University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4
Xinwei Li, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Instanton Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory
Jingyuan Chen, Tsinghua University,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning
Maegan Tucker, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
New populations of white dwarfs revealed by Gaia
Sihao Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow, IAS, Princeton and Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Interactions of shock waves and turbulence through numerical simulations
Ivan Bermejo-Moreno, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Random Tessellation Forests
Eliza O'Reilly, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

An $L_\infty$-module structure on annular Khovanov homology
Champ Davis, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Assembly of Complex Carbocyclic Scaffolds via Palladium and Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclizations."
Allison Stanko, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
Sunday, May 14th, 2023