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February 2025

Friday, February 21st, 2025

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Precision tests of gravity on the table-top

Gautam Venugopalan, Stanford University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Knot Detection Results in RP^3

Hongjian Yang, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Kimberly Sharp, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 256 (Benioff Room)

Mantle heterogeneities originated from the Earth's core: A new model

Jie Deng, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University,

7:00pm – 2/23 2:00pm

Death Valley Dark Sky Festival

Public Event

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Caltech Wind Orchestra Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Sunday, February 23rd, 2025

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Caltech Wind Orchestra Concert

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Monday, February 24th, 2025

10:00am – 11:00am

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense

Gates-Thomas 115

Resolvent Analysis of Non-stationary Turbulent Flows and Transient Flow Phenomena

Eric Ballouz, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120

Engineering Cytochrome P450 for modular bioremediation

Joseph Boktor, Graduate Student, Mazmanian Group, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:30pm

How Learning Works - Winter 2025

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

Internal Event

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Math Teaching Seminar

Linde Hall 359

Conversations about Math Teaching

Jasmine Bryant, Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

From Atmospheric Physics to Machine Learning and Back

Tom Beucler, Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105

Learning in the space of probability measures

Caroline Moosmueller, Assistant Professor and J. Burton Linker Fellow, Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

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4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

New Structures in Renormalization Group from Fundamental Principles

Chia-Hsien Shen, National Taiwan University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

High Energy Physics Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

TBA

Chia-Hsien Shen, National Taiwan University,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

History Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Legal Traditions in Central and Eastern European Cities in the 14th–16th Centuries: Ius Teutonicum, Local Legislation, and Ius Commune

Maciej Mikuła, Professor, Department of Church Law and the Law of Religious Denominations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114

Nonequilibrium dynamics and control of flatband graphene

Jin Chenhao, Assistant Professor, Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Astronomy on Tap

"The Sun's Life and Death" and "Seeing the Invisible"

Antonio Rodriguez, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Mandy Chen, Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech and Carnegie Observatories,

Public Event

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

10:30am – 12:00pm

Laser Safety Training

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Mean field limits for Consensus-Based Optimization and Sampling

Urbain Vaes, Researcher (Inria Starting Faculty Position) /Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Inria Paris / NYU Paris,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Quantifying Tidal versus Non-tidal Stresses in Driving Time-Varying Fluxes of Enceladus' Plume Eruptions

Ashley Schoenfeld, Postdoctoral Researcher, Jet Propulsion Lab,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310

Renormalization, semiconvexity, and applications

Roland Bauerschmidt, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Professor Bill Bridges Memorial Symposium

Chen 100

Best Practices I Have Learned from Bill and the CEOs of Successful Startup Companies

Dr. Milton M. Chang, Caltech Trustee,

Public Event

4:30pm – 6:00pm

First Generation Affinity Space

Hameetman Center 210 - Conference Room

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Sample Return Missions from Small Bodies – Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, and Beyond

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

Academic

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Supersymmetric Soft Theorems

Adam Tropper, Harvard University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Data Visualization 101, and Interactive Data Visualizations in Python – Part 1

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter B125

From Design to Disclosure

S. Nageeb Ali, Professor of Economics, Penn State University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Logic Seminar

Online Event

Canonicity of the Shift

Zoltán Vidnyánszky, Institute of Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar

South Mudd 254

Geodetic Evidence of Magma Reservoir Evolution Beneath Ol Doinyo Lengai

Dr. Sarah Stamps, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

L-Functionals and Infrared Problem in Quantum Electrodynamics

Albert Schwarz, UC Davis & Caltech,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Discussion #2 from "The Science of Learning"

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Tales of Dust-Enshrouded Eruptions: Solving Missing Links from Planets to Supermassive Black Holes

Kishalay De, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

David Bonan, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Mechanisms shaping the atmospheric hydrological cycle in a changing climate

Dave Bonan, CICOES Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington,

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 310

Electrical networks and Lagrangian Grassmannians

Terrence George, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

LCSSP Climate Solutions Seminar

Baxter B125

Adapting to Growing Wildfire Property Risk

Judson Boomhower, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Direct Integration of 2D Materials for Next Generation Electronic Devices

Zak Al Balushi, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

"Universal Scaling of Phase Diagrams of Polymer Solutions"

Dr. Chi Wu, Director of the Center of Food Science and Processing, Shenzhen University; Wei Lun Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Honorary Professor of Physics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Caltech in Seattle

Public Event

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Watson Lecture - Rob Phillips: The Hidden Poetry of the Genome

Beckman Auditorium

Public Event

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

8:00am – Ongoing

Registration for Spring Term

Academic

10:00am – 11:00am

CPA Cool Beans

Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

10:30am – 12:00pm

Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum

Public Event

11:00am – 12:00pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Building frameworks for physics missing from climate models

Kasturi Shah, McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Data Visualization 101, and Interactive Data Visualizations in Python – Part 2

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Cultural Mental Health & Crafting

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Informal Seminar - Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown

Chen 130

Changing the Gut Microbiome Improves Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Professor, Molecular/Cellular Biology Program, Arizona State University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Special CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213

Where do all the scores come from? – generation accuracy of diffusion model, and multimodal sampling via denoising annealing

Molei Tao, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,

2:45pm – 3:45pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

A hyperbolicity conjecture for adjoint bundles

Wern Yeong, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Remodeling Conjecture with descendants

Song Yu, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)

Amanda Oehlert, Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosesntiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event

Causality and Positivity Constraints on Theory Space

Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)

Science as social choice

Conor Mayo-Wilson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle,

5:00pm – 6:00pm

CPA STEM for Families

Friday, February 28th, 2025

11:00am – 12:00pm

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Where is tree-level string theory?

Leonardo Rastelli, Stony Brook University,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Caltech Library Workshop – Data Visualization 101, and Interactive Data Visualizations in Python – Part 3

Online Event

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar

Baxter 127

Dynamic (In)Consistency, Revelation Principle, and Full Surplus Extraction

Mengxi Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bonn,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Addressing the electronic structure and transport properties of correlated materials from first principles

Tommaso Chiarotti, Postdoctoral Scholar, Bernardi Group,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event

Templates for all seasons?!? Gravitational waveforms from perturbation theory for LISA (and LIGO/Virgo/Kagra?!?)

Gabriel Piovano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physique théorique et Mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187

Einstein metrics on even-dimensional spheres

Jan Nienhaus, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Enantioselective Nucleophilic Florination of Alkyl Electrophiles via Copper Catalysis

Zhuoyan Wang, Graduate Student (Fu Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Seismo Lab Seminar

South Mudd 254

Improved Ground Motion Prediction with Multi-Resolution Models in Southern and Central California

Kim Bak Olsen, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University,

8:00pm – 9:30pm

Piano: An All-Woman Show

Dabney Hall, Lounge

Public Event