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January 2024

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Ongoing
Ongoing – 1/2 11:59pm
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Winter Recess

Ongoing – 1/1 5:00pm
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Institute Holidays

Monday, January 1st, 2024
9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
All Day
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TechLit: Inner Space and Outer Thoughts Audiobook Release

  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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CTLO Winter Term Course Prep Workshops

Online Event
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
All Day
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Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series

East Bridge 114
High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory
Ted Yoder, IBM,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Changhao Xu

Online and In-Person Event
Electronic Skin in Robotics and Healthcare: Towards Multimodal Sensing and Intelligent Analysis
Changhao Xu, Medical Engineering Ph.D. Student, Medical Engineering, Calfornia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Black Holes and Revelations: Unseen Companions in Stellar Binaries
Kareem El-Badry, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, January 4th, 2024
9:00am – 12:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
'Probabilistic robotics' revisited: Risk-sensitive robot planning and control using data-driven geometry and dynamics models
Preston Culbertson, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Crellin 151
Nonlinear and Multidimensional Terahertz Spectroscopy of Liquids and Crystalline Solids
Haw Wei Lin, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BBE- The Developmental and Organismal Biology Search Committee Seminar - Carlos Taboada | Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 4 pm

Broad 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On Triple Product L-functions
Miao Gu, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Ultracold polar molecules: an emerging tool for quantum science
Dave DeMille,
Friday, January 5th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
A new proposal for holographic Renyi entropy
Pratik Rath, UC Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Numerical studies of high velocity outflows using an expanding mesh
Soham Mandal, Graduate Student, Duffell Research Group, Purdue University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electrocatalytic Asymmetric Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Decarboxylative Coupling: Scope, Applications, and Mechanism
Nathan Friede, Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Monday, January 8th, 2024
9:30am – 4:30pm
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New Horizons in Neuroscience Symposium - Monday, January 8th, 2024 at 9:30 am - Chen 100

Chen 100
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Annenberg 121
Understanding and Improving Reliability of Inference Dynamics in Deep Neural Networks
Yujia Huang, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Winter Workshop: Succeeding as a TA this Quarter

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Microlocal methods in scattering for nonlinear evolution equations
Jesse Gell-Redman, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter B125
The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities
Anaïs Fabre, PhD candidate in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
Erik Petigura, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Learning New Physics from Data – a Symmetrized Approach
Inbar Savoray, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
On the dynamical formation and interior structure of black holes
Christoph Kehle, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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BBE/Moore Scholar Seminar- Vamsi Mootha | Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at noon

Broad 100
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO Faculty Learning Communities (Student Attendance and Engagement)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Life at a Multi-TeV Muon Collider
Richard Ruiz, IFJ, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Machine Learning and Microelectronics for 'New' New Physics Searches at the Energy Frontier
Julia Gonski, SLAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics

Linde Hall 310
Meromorphic functions and modern Abel-Jacobi theory
Rahul Pandharipande, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich,
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
10:40am – 11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Minimax Surfaces and Covariant Holographic Entropy
Brianna Grado-White, Brandeis University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Decoding Diversity - Exploring Social Identity

Online Event
  • Public Event
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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How Learning Works-Winter Workshop Series

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter B125
Commercial Eviction Moratoria, Liquidity Relief and Business Closure
Angela Ma, Ph.D. Candidate in Business Economics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Data-driven constraint of cloud microphysics uncertainty at global and process-level scales
Marcus Van Lier Walqui, Columbia University & NASA/GISS,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Measurements of Higgs Boson Properties with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Abhisek Datta, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
From quantum learning theory to dimension-free Remez inequalities
Joseph Slote, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Using AI and computation to accelerate knowledge discovery via high throughput experimentation
John Gregoire, Research Professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Approaches in biocatalysis to create connections between sequence space and chemical space
Alison Narayan, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Adaptive Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Systems
Jose E. Andrade, George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Decoding the Molecular Interactions Governing EWS-FLI1 Oncogenic Behavior"
Shuwen 'Eric' Lei, Graduate Student, Goddard Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Coffee & Tea with the CCID

San Pasqual Walk
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
James Kwan, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Balliol College - University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Na Ji

Annenberg 105
Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
Professor Na Ji, Professor of Neurobiology and Luis Alvarez Memorial Chair in Experimental Physics, Department of Physics and Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Special cycles on compactifications of Shimura varieties
Eugenia Rosu, Mathematical Institute, Universiteit Leiden,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture

Online and In-Person Event
Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers
Jorge Noronha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
When Is It Okay to Ban Research (Funding)?
Craig Callender, Tata Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics, UC San Diego,
Friday, January 12th, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
How Bootstrap and Monte Carlo became friends
Minjae Cho, Princeton University,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs January 2024 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum criticality under imperfect teleportation
Sara Murciano, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Professor Ehud Yariv, Shocks and Caps in Drop Electrohydrodynamics,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Hydrodynamic instabilities in modern artistic painting
Roberto Zenit, Professor of Engineering, Brown University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum-inspired incoherent imaging and optomechanical sensing
Mankei Tsang, Quantum Measurement Group, National University of Singapore,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

Annenberg 213
Does sketching work?
Ethan Epperly, Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter B125
Liquidity Shocks and Private Equity Investment
Yingxiang Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, UBC Sauder School of Business,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
On a generalization of Geroch's conjecture
Sven Hirsch, Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electrophilic Nickel Nitrenoid Catalysis: N-N Coupling and Enolate Amidation
Kimberly Sharp, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club - Free Tai Chi Class

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Supernovae: The Brilliant Endings of Massive Stars
Michael Pajkos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Monday, January 15th, 2024
All Day
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Institute holiday)

9:00am – 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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NB/CNS Seminar- William Bialek | Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 12 pm

Broad 100
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition: Collider-Gravitational Wave Complementarity
Michael Ramsey-Musolf, UMass Amherst,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
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  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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BBE- The Developmental and Organismal Biology Search Committee Seminar - Marcos Simoes-Costa | Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 4 pm

Broad 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
Europa's Exosphere in and out of Jupiter's Shadow
Apurva Oza, Postdoc, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter B125
Do Standard Error Corrections Exacerbate Publication Bias?
Patrick Vu, PhD Candidate in Economics, Brown University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC)
Ken Van Tilburg, NYU,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Nonlinear interactions of multiple wave fronts
John Anderson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Linear-in-temperature conductance in electron hydrodynamics
Leonid S. Levitov, Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dabney Hall, Lounge
Edan Lepucki reads from and discusses Time's Mouth: A Novel
Edan Lepucki, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Caltech,
  • Public Event
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
10:00am – 11:30am
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs-Winter 2024

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
10:40am – 11:40am
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Low entanglement states in black holes and many-body systems
Zixia Wei, Harvard University,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Ultrafast photoexcitation and propagation of coherent magnons
Changmin Lee, Professor, Hanyang University (Korea),
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Ute Deichmann | Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 12 pm

Broad 100
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
Motion from Shape Change
Peter Schröder, Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CTLO Winter Term Workshop Series: How to Design Courses to Increase Student Learning and Promote Academic Integrity

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennan Conference Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Getting Better Sleep workshop for grads and undergrads

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Stellar Streams in the Milky Way
Ana Bonaca, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
(Re)defining the roles of phage in microbiomes
Karthik Anantharaman, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Boosted Higgs production and smart trackers of the future
Jennet Dickinson, Fermilab,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Lie Groups and Hierarchy for Neural Visual Representations
Christian Shewmake, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience & Vision Science Group, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Heterogeneity and fluctuations in nanoscale materials transformations unveiled via in-situ liquid phase TEM
Haimei Zheng, PhD, Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
Break-it-to-Make-it Strategies for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Natural Products
Dr. Richmond Sarpong, Executive Associate Dean, College of Chemistry, University of California - Berkeley,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Chen Social

Chen Lobby
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
All Day
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Click Chemistry Approach to Nitrogen Heterocycles
Dr. André K. Isaacs, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of the Holy Cross,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Cooperative Data-Driven Modeling
Miguel Bessa, Associate Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering, Brown University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CBIPP Tech Talk: "Unexpected Challenges in Biotech Startup R&D" presented by Lab Launch

Chen 100
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Dr. MLK Commemoration Keynote: Gerald Garth

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
  • Public Event
2:30pm – 3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Cohomological properties of cyclic coverings
Tariq Syed, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:45pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Asymptotic characters of modules for parity KLR algebras
Anne Dranowski, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Artificial Intelligence and Three-Dimensional In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy: From High Spatial Resolution to High Autonomies, From High Dimensions to High Statistical Reliability
Huolin Xin, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Towards understanding the role of transport in electrocatalysis: the role of dimensionless analysis and multi-scale modeling
Carlos G. Morales-Guio, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk

Baxter B125
How Anti-ESG Pressure Affects Investment: Evidence from Retirement Savings
Jane Danyu Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate in Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum

Linde Hall 310
Emergent dynamics of infinitely many Kuramoto oscillators
Seung-Yeal Ha, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar Series, Wei Gao, Ph.D.

Annenberg 105
Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors
Wei Gao, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
mod p analogue of Mumford-Tate and André-Oort conjectures for GSpin Shimura varieties
Ruofan Jiang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,