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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to Machine Learning

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exploring and Manipulating Novel Matter Phases with Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear X-Ray Techniques
Michael Zuerch, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar - SEMINAR CANCELLED

South Mudd 365
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Mindfully Resilient Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) - Therapy Group for Students

Student Health Center
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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NB/CNS Seminar- Speaker: Bruno Olshausen | Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 4 pm

Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Lutron "Magic Show" with Interactive Technology Display

Hameetman Center B122 - Club Room 3
10:00am – 11:30am
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*CANCELED* Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Learning Objectives)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
More on Torus Wormholes in 3d Gravity
Cynthia Yan, Stanford University,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Finding Common Ground

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254
Stress drop estimation: In deep-focus earthquakes and assessing the influence of source complexity
Meichen Liu, Seismo Lab, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Tackle the Term - Free Pizza!!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
12:45pm – 5:00pm
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Bill Gross Business Plan Competition

Chen 100
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Massive Particles at Spatial Infinity
Suvrat Raju, ICTS, Tata Institute,
1:00pm – 2:30pm
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Transforming Your Research Into Teaching for Postdocs-Spring 2024

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – You & Your Thesis

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Multiple radial SLE(0) system and classical Calogero-Sutherland model
Jiaxin Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
White Dwarfs as Probes of Convective Overshoot and Evolved Exoplanetary Systems
Tim Cunningham, NASA Hubble Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
New ice cores from coastal West Antarctica to constrain climate forcing on Amundsen Sea regional ice shelves and outlet glaciers: initiating a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA)
Peter Neff, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map
James Gornet, Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fertile ground for quantum materials, and how to grow them
Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
A Radical Approach to Organic Chemistry
Julian West, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Rice University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Making Molecular World: Building a practice-based account of modern chemistry
Dr. Catherine M. Jackson, Associate Professor and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework
Max Farrell, Associate Professor of Economics and Mellichamp Chair of Mind and Machine Intelligence, UC Santa Barbara,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Trivia Night - Boba & Popcorn Chicken!

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room
6:30pm – 7:45pm
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Financial Literacy: Investing - Grad Students

Central Catalinas Recreation Room
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Behind The Book: April 10, 2024 - Dr. David Zierler and Prof. Paul Wennberg discuss Zierler's "The Invention of Ecocide"

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
9:15am – 6:30pm
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Brain Therapeutics & Delivery Mechanisms Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Internal Event
10:00am – 11:00am
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Science Journey: How Soil Microbes Help Us Fight Climate Change

Beckman Auditorium
Hannah Dion-Kirschner, Caltech graduate student, Geobiology,
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Do we really need all that data? Learning and control for contact-rich manipulation
Michael Posa, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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Fair & Effective Grading: Choosing and Using Rubrics

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
11:30am – 1:30pm
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Tea and Well-Being Raffle - Grad Students

Hameetman Center Patio
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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APACT Mahjong Afternoon

Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:15pm
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Center for Evolutionary Science EVOxZANKOU Seminar

Chen 130
"Mechanisms that entrench obligate symbioses" and "Evolution of a curious male social behavior in Drosophila"
Tom Naragon, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
Joe Ouadah, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Black hole spectroscopy and beyond no-hair
Dr Julian Westerweck,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Engineering High-precision, Dynamic Genetic Control Systems for Cellular Reprogramming
Katie Galloway, W. M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Covers of P^1 and number fields
Sameera Vemulapalli, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Is it really cold and quiet? How mundane backgrounds that cause quasi-particle poisoning in superconducting sensors limit meV-GeV dark matter searches today and could ultimately limit superconducting QUBITs.
Matt Pyle, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Sexual Violence in the Media: 101

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Speed, Accuracy, and Complexity
Duarte Goncalves, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University College London (UCL),
Friday, April 12th, 2024
8:00am – 4/13 5:00pm
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Innovations in the Science & Policy of Water Quality Measurement

Baxter Lecture Hall
  • Public Event
10:30am – 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Partial Synthetic Models of the FeMoco Nitrogenase Cluster with Bridging C-Based Ligands
Nguyen Vuong Linh Le, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Strings From Feynman Diagrams
Edward Mazenc, ETH, Zurich,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Uncovering the Origins of Binary Black Holes with Normalising Flows
Storm Colloms,
  • Internal Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

South Mudd 365
Clearing the Air: A Chemical Approach to Understanding SOA Formation from Volatile Chemical Products
Reina Buenconsejo, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 12, 2024

Caltech Hall 9th Floor
Caltech Postdocs Launch
Dr. Riccardo Caniato, PMA,
Dr. Maksym Figat, Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology,
  • Public Event
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Green Labs April 2024 Meeting

12:00pm – 1:30pm
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McKinsey & Co. @ Caltech

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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SFCC x CCID Neurodiversity at Work: Part 4

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
1:00pm – 4/14 12:00pm
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2024 Family Weekend

1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity
Alejandra Castro, University of Cambridge,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
MARVEL, SNAPS, and hubs
Attila G. Császár, Professor of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Stellar transient from triple interactions
Hila Glanz, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Technion University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wall-Modeled LES: Nonequilibrium Flows and Convergence
George Park, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Surgery Exact Triangles in Instanton Theory
Deeparaj Bhat, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
The magmatic system under Hunga volcano before and after the January 2022 eruption
Hélène Le Mèvel, Staff Scientist, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Science, DC,
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
9:00am – 10:30am
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Preschool Program at Caltech Open House

Off Campus
1:00pm – 5:00pm
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Jazz Festival (Moved to April 27!)

Hameetman Center Patio
  • Public Event
Sunday, April 14th, 2024
3:30pm – 5:30pm
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Escher String Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, April 15th, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

Jorgensen 109
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Undergraduate Research Week 2024 - How to Make the Most of Your Summer

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
  • Internal Event
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Gates-Thomas 135
Low rank approximation for faster optimization
Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
From weathering fronts to streams: records of CO2 and O2 consumption across the critical zone
Susan Brantley, Professor of Geosciences and Evan Pugh University Professor Leiden University, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Flavorful New Physics and Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism
Sam Homiller, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms
Peter Schauss, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics-AMOP, University of Virginia,
6:00pm – 7:00pm
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Caltech Philosophy of Yoga: "Connected Online, Lonely at Home"

Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
9:00am – 4/17 12:00pm
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Caltech ecosySTEMs 2024

10:00am – 11:00am
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Undergraduate Research Week 2024 - Effective Mentoring

Online Event
  • Internal Event