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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave
Selma de Mink, Scientific Director, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Changing Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns over the North Pacific
Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122
Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiota interactions
Pamela V. Chang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras
Alexei Kitaev, Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Accelerated Catalyst Design Beyond Sabatier Plot
Yu Huang, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter B125
Risk Aversion and Insurance Propensity
Fabio Maccheroni, Full Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi,
5:00pm – 7:00pm
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First Generation Student Dinner

Off Campus
6:00pm – 8:00pm
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Senior Celebrations

  • Internal Event
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
8:00am – 5/19 2:00pm
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Half Century Club Celebration

Alumni House, 345 S. Hill Ave.
  • Public Event
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
How "to see a world in a grain of sand"?
Rouslan Krechetnikov, Professor, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
The Model T
Joshua Hausman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan,
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to QGIS

Online Event
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Measuring the Impact of Inclusive Teaching in Your Classroom Workshop

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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► CANCELED: Visual Culture Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
This seminar has been canceled.
John Brewer, Faculty Associate, History Department, Harvard University and Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
AMPK: energy sensor and central guardian of mitochondrial homeostasis
Reuben Shaw, Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Bio-inspired Systems for Sustainability and Environmental Remediation
Ariel Furst, Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture

Baxter Lecture Hall
Clean Electricity and the Path to Net Zero: Methods and Insights
Jesse D. Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment, Princeton University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series, Professor Jacob Robinson

Moore B270
Minimally invasive brain interfaces using magnetic materials
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
On the arithmetic nature of special values of Dirichlet L-functions
Vesselin Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT,
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Outdoor Movie Night – The Terminator

Sherman Fairchild Library, Amphitheatre
Friday, May 17th, 2024
All Day
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Caltech Store - One Day Apple Sale

Caltech Store
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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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Impact of Interfacial Chemistry on Corrosion, Sensing, and Catalytic Properties of Materials
John Evans, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks
Ronak Soni, University of Cambridge,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT,
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127
Games under the Tiered Deferred Acceptance Mechanism
Jiarui Xie, Visiting Student, UC Berkeley,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115
Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling
Matthew Yao, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang

Moore B280
Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang, Ph.D. Candidate (Med-EE Joint Track), Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Caltech MEMS Lab, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
To infinity and beyond: the hyperboloidal framework in Black-hole perturbation theory
Rodrigo Macedo, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Overview of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M and Finding the Origin of Heat Streaks on Hypersonic Canonical Geometries
Ivett A. Leyva, Ph.D., P.E., Department Head, College of Engineering Excellence Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica
Michael Willis, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects in Crystalline Rhombohedral Graphene
Long Ju, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar - Warren Leonard | Friday, May 17, 2024 at 4 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech Bioscience Industry Connections

Chen Breezeway
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Grant D. Venerable Portrait Unveiling

  • Public Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Enantioselective Intramolecular Reactions of Palladium Enolates.
Christian Strong, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)
Observations and Simulations of Small-scale Convection beneath the Oceanic Plates
Zachary Eilon, Associate Professor, Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:30pm – 6:30pm
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Celebration of Excellence

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, May 18th, 2024
7:00am – 5:00pm
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Seminar Day 2024

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Caltech Cosmos: Exploring the Universe of STEM

3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Orchestra

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Caltech Glee Club and Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Sitar and Tabla Recital

Dabney Hall, Lounge
  • Public Event
Monday, May 20th, 2024
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Manipulating Phase Transitions and Porosity: From Solid Refrigerants to Microporous Water.
Jarad Mason, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Leveraging the ΦX174 Lysis Protein to Study MraY Structure, Function, and Regulation
Karen Orta, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electron Beam Driven Plasmas and the Quest for Precise Control in Materials Processing
Scott G. Walton, PhD, Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Cahill 370
Enhancing X-ray Astronomy with machine learning
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Novel perspectives on the water cycle and critical zone from the late Quaternary through the present
Tyler Huth, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Ribbon concordances and slice obstructions: experiments and examples
Sherry Gong, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Temporal entanglement and complexity of quantum many-body dynamics
Dmitry Abanin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 310
Group actions, algebra up to homotopy, and flavors of commutativity
Mike Hill, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Astronomy on Tap

"Supermassive Black Holes" and "Ocean Worlds"
Jean Somalwar, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,
Kevin Hand, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
10:00am – 2:00pm
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Professional Attire Thrift Day

Olive Walk
  • Internal Event
10:45am – 12:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – The Unix Shell, Part 1

Online Event
11:00am – 12:30pm
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Spill the Tea w/the CCID!

San Pasqual Walk
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Special Quantum Matter Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Chiral Critical Matter
Leo Radzihovsky, Professor of Physics, CU Boulder,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces
Christy Landes, Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

South Mudd 365
"Thermophysical modeling of (15) Eunomia with ALMA data" & "From spectra to mineralogy: a remote sensing approach to Earth's desert dust sources"
Yu Yu Phua, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
Abigail Keebler, Graduate Student, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Kathleen Rockland

Axons and Brain Architecture
Dr. Kathleen Rockland, Research Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine,
5:00pm – 6:30pm
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Chen Social

Chen Breezeway
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

10:00am – 11:30am
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*CANCELED* Faculty Short Course - Course Design Basics (Using Technology Tools)

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
10:45am – 12:15pm
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Caltech Library Workshop – The Unix Shell, Part 2

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

Online and In-Person Event
A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes
Walker Melton, Harvard University,